Pre-upload presentations before a meeting begins

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For many integrations (such as Moodle), it would be very convenient for a 
presenter to already have their presentation pre-uploaded into BigBlueButton 
so they are ready to begin their lecture immediately upon login.

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This would require extensions to the API, possibly to create, that would 
allow the calling application to pass a reference to one (or more) 
presentations to upload.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ffdixon@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 5:50

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It will be better we pull it out from a repository (like alfresco / myspace).  

Original comment by venkates...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2010 at 12:16

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I disagree that it will be better to pull it.  This should be left to the 
third-party application to do because there are too may possible combinations.

Original comment by jeremyth...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2010 at 6:15

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Hi All. We are integrating BBB into our website. Users could preload all their 
documents onto our website. What we are looking for is a way that we could 
convert the docs in advance or have BBB call the docs from our library so that 
the moderator does not have to upload docs twice and so they are always 
referenceable/downloadable for attendees. Any ideas how we can do this?

Original comment by trudisch...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 6:56

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Hi Trudischifter,

This feature is definitely something we want to implement in the future (no 
release date).  

If you *really* want this feature sooner, it's always an option to accelerate 
features.  To explore this, contact one of the companies listed in 
http://bigbluebutton.org/support who can implement it for you in the open 
source project.

At the moment, the core development team is focused on 0.71.  See 
http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-dev/browse_thread/thread/6ffa48133e
a7d2e6#.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 12:35

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Issue 816 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2011 at 11:32

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Issue 615 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2011 at 12:12

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 12:46

• Added labels: Component-API

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 5:43

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Component-Presentation

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 5:44

• Changed state: Started

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 10:02

• Changed title: Pre-upload presentations before a meeting begins

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 10:03

• Added labels: Milestone-Release0.72

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Current status:

uploading works through a POST when calling the create API call.  you can send 
either URLs to documents to be downloaded, or you can send ascii encoded binary 
files.

conversion is automatically kicked off and completes

the big thing that is left is getting the list of presentations to be shown 
when you then join the meeting.  currently, the pre-uploaded presentations 
don't appear in your list once you've joined because red5 doesn't know about 
the meeting yet.  red5 doesn't start a room until you've joined, so when it 
receives notifications that a document has been converted before you have 
joined, it has no room to assign them to.  we are going to edit 
http://tinyurl.com/4hub5bm (line 126) to scan for uploaded presentations when 
the room is created so that red5 will "catch up".  this is the quickest way to 
accomplish what we need.

Original comment by jeremyth...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2011 at 5:25

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2011 at 2:48

• Removed labels: Milestone-Release0.72

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2011 at 3:05

• Added labels: Milestone-Release0.8

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Original comment by ritza...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2011 at 4:00

• Changed state: Fixed