Conversations: create, manage, delete

This article will teach you how to create, manage, and remove an IM conversation with Voximplant.

There are two types of conversations in Voximplant: direct and public. A direct conversation is one between two users only. A public conversation, or a chat room, can consist of up to 1000 users.

Before creating a conversation, create an application, users, and add Voximplant SDK to your project.

To create a conversation, use the createConversation method:

By default, the conversation's members have the following permissions: canRead, canWrite, canRemove. You can specify another default permissions at conversation creation.

The user that created the conversation becomes its owner. After the conversation is created, other users can join it or be invited by administrators.

Administrators of a chat room or its owner can change the following preferences of the conversation:

Here is how you can manage a chat room's preferences:

Refer to the chat room user management guide to learn how to add and remove users and how to change their permissions.

To remove a conversation, the administrators of a chat room or its owner need to delete all the participants via the removeParticipants method, then leave the conversation via the leaveConversation method.

After that, the conversation is deleted.

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