Drupal Video Consultation Module

Drupal6 integration demo can be tested by registering a free account on the Video Conference Software Drupal 6 powered website.

Drupal7 integration demo can be evaluated on Webcam Presence Drupal 7 powered website.

After registering and login in, use Create Content / Add Content > Video Consultation room or Video Consultations: Create New Instant Video Consultation Room from the user menu to create a video consultation room for testing.

Site members (as allowed by role permissions) can instantly create video consultation rooms and send the access links to other participants. Rooms are created as Drupal nodes. Links are provided and can be shared by any method (email, instant message).

With this Drupal integration, room settings, including quality and streaming time, permissions to use features (globally by role and locally by room) can be defined and used to control quality and duration of service. This virtually allows website owner to provide controlled premium services.

Before installing, make sure your hosting environment meets all requirements.

If you're not hosting RTMP with us go to RTMP Application Setup for installation details.
If you already have an older version installed, make sure you uninstall that first.


Latest Drupal 7 version (7.x-3.25+):

1. Login to your Drupal administrator account and go from Dashboard to Administration>Modules:
   - Get VideoWhisper Drupal modules or links from download page. There is an All Drupal 7 Modules download that includes all VideoWhisper integration modules, vwrooms and vwcredits.
   - This module requires VideoWhisper Rooms (vwrooms), VideoWhisper Credits (vwcredits) and Date_api , Date_popup (from Date package).
   - Install (Install new module) and enable these requirements first (one by one or with all modules pack - recommended).
   - Install and enable Video Consultation (vcnf) module. Should be in VideoWhisper category.
2. Click Configure for Video Consultation on Modules screen, and fill your rtmp application path (get it from step 1). Change other settings as desired.
3. Click Permissions for Video Consultation on Modules screen and enable permissions as desired.
   Also give users permissions for Node section to create, edit, delete their own nodes.
   Users can be allowed to create and manage their own rooms, visitors can be allowed to access rooms (so invite links work for people nor registered on the site) and admins to manage all rooms.
   

Older (Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 older than 7.x-2.00) :

1. Important: The standard Drupal module contains just the integration. You will also need to have the videowhisper application (which does not come with the regular tag.gz) copied to the website by FTP.
2. Download module & application, copy the files from the zip file including folder structure to your public website location.
   If you already installed the drupal module, just copy the vconsult folder and contents to the root of your drupal installation.
   As a result you should have a vconsult folder with the application in your drupal web root folder (usually public_html) and a vconsult module:
   /vconsult
   /sites/all/modules/vconsult
3. Login to your Drupal administrator account and go to Administer > Site Building > Modules in Drupal 6 or Modules from dashboard in Drupal 7 and enable Video Consultation. Should be in VideoWhisper category.
   Click [Save configuration] button at page bottom.
4. Go to Administer > Site Configuration > Video Consultation in Drupal6 or Video Consultation : Configure in Drupal7 on Modules screen, and fill your rtmp application path (get it from step 1) and other settings.
   Click [Save configuration] button at page bottom.
5. Go to Administer > User Management > Permissions , scroll down to vconsult module in Drupal6 or Video Consultation: Permissions in Drupal7 on Modules screen and enable permissions as desired.
   Also give users permissions for Node section to create, edit, delete their own nodes.
   Users can be allowed to create and manage their own rooms, visitors can be allowed to access rooms (so invite links work for people nor registered on the site) and admins to manage all rooms.
   Click [Save configuration] button at page bottom.

After installation a new menu will be available for users: Video Consultations. This will allow managing rooms created by that user and creating new rooms. Rooms can also be created with Create Content > Video Consultation room . Rooms are generated as Drupal nodes.

Room owners can define for each of their rooms multiple advanced settings, depending on permissions configured by Administrator. This includes streaming settings and permissions (access) to certain room features.

Administrators can configure permissions to use certain features for each role. This can be used only if enabled by room owner for that room.

Administrators can also control by permissions what parameters room owners can change. Defaults defined by administrators in module settings will be used for inaccessible parameters.

If you want to upgrade a module to a more recent version you will need to uninstall old version first.

1. Login as administrator
2. Go to Modules from dashboard in Drupal 7 or Administer > Site Building > Modules in Drupal 6
3. Disable the module from VideoWhisper section and [Save Configuration]
4. Go to Uninstall tab, Select module and [Uninstall], Confirm
5. Go to Structure > Content Types and delete any remaining content types
6. Go to Configuration > Performance > Clear Cache and Clear all Caches
7. Optionally, with FTP remove these folders with old files from:
   • /vconsult (Drupal 6 only)
   • /sites/all/modules/vconsult

Video Consultation

This Drupal integration modules are provided with full php source code under GPL. This basicly means you can use, tweak, distribute the module php files as you wish. Contact us if you have interesting tweaks for this or derived modules and want to share these with the world.