session details display bug phone number & code ?!?

[Thomas Jagoditsch]

hi,

 

the session detail dialog in 3.0 for non-moderators will supress the “join by URL” data but will happily display the “TO JOIN BY PHONE” access credentials (phone number and access code).

i don't think that is a good thing as non-mods could give away session access via voice-in …

my guess is that modifying line 146 in bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/session-details/component.tsx from

          {formattedDialNum && formattedTelVoice && (

to

          {loginUrl && formattedDialNum && formattedTelVoice && (

would fix this. dont know if the localized display of the voice-in data needs an additional fix.

 

tia,
wbr,tja…

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[Anton Georgiev]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the suggestion!

However, the dial in numbers are meant for session participants who can't join via microphone or perhaps just prefer phone (connection stability in some cases?).

As such, the phone numbers need to be visible to any session participant, not only to moderators.

If you prefer to only provide certain information to moderators only, consider moving it from the `welcome` to `moderatorOnlyMessage`

Anton

[Thomas Jagoditsch]

hi anton,

thx for answering.

i cant get your argument there: if you think the voicebridge number & code should be visible to every user - why then isnt the join URL visible to all users too ?!?
i can tell that our teachers had students that would forward credentials to outside friends so that they may disrupt the teaching sessions - so any tool to mitigate that would be helpful …

besides that, i tried to restrict the display and/or use your suggestion:

i used …

defaultWelcomeMessageFooter=deaultWelcomeMessageFooter
defaultWelcomeMessage=defaultWelcomeMessage
defaultWelcomeMsgForModerators=defaultWelcomeMsgForModerators
moderatorOnlyMessage=moderatorOnlyMessage
defaultModeratorOnlyMessage=defaultModeratorOnlyMessage

… in /etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-web.properties.
the *moderator* assignements did nothing. a quick grep in the source wouldnt find that either.
additionally i tried to find the “To invite someone …” text but failed to do so.
the “PER URL/TELEFON” (localized versions) would be nice to modify without touching the language files, too …

as you see in the screenshots below you cant suppress the voice bridge credentials via defaultWelcomeMessage*.

moderator/session owner info pane:

guest info pane:

 

wbr,tja…

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[Lukas/MuLu]

Hi Thomas,

>  why then isnt the join URL visible to all users too

"the join URL" is not the business of BBB itself. It is the business of the application calling the API.
Of course your application can also add the URL for joining the meeting in the message for everyone.

>  so any tool to mitigate that would be helpful

You can just configure BBB (or only some meetings) that a moderator has to accept every guest user (including phone users).

>  additionally i tried to find the “To invite someone …” text but failed to do so.

Because also this text comes from the frontend. 
You should have a look at the API to understand the basic usage: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/development/api/

>  the “PER URL/TELEFON” (localized versions) would be nice to modify without touching the language files, too …

Just set it from the apply-config.sh mentioned here: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/administration/customize/#preserving-customizations-using-apply-configsh
This will set the string after updates

[Thomas Jagoditsch]

hi lukas,

 

thx for your answer.

"the join URL" is not the business of BBB itself. It is the business of the application calling the API.
Of course your application can also add the URL for joining the meeting in the message for everyone.

…

Because also this text comes from the frontend. 
You should have a look at the API to understand the basic usage: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/development/api/

you helped me to understand that greenlight sends this texts to BBB when opening the meeting.
it seems that the current version of greenlight (3.6.3) doesnt allow you to set these texts in the UI when creating the meeting.
i will further investigate this and try to learn.
the moderator message anton wrote about seems to work only with the api and not with bbb-web.properties.

Just set it from the apply-config.sh mentioned here: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/administration/customize/#preserving-customizations-using-apply-configsh
This will set the string after updates

could you elaborate how one would mod these localized strings via apply-config.sh ?

 

tia,
wbr, tja…

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