Room persistence, templates and sticky settings.

#Idonthavefactstobackthisup but I think that persistent meeting rooms and templates are two of the top features that customers really like about Adobe Connect.

In Connect-speak, persistence means that the rooms you create with Adobe Connect are always available to you (the meeting host), AND almost anything you do inside the meeting room is automatically saved and retained for use in future sessions. That includes layouts, content, polling, branding, etc. A persistent meeting room is fantastic for any number of use-cases, from having a personal meeting room that's always available for ad-hoc collaboration to structured events like virtual classrooms sessions and/or webinars.

With templates, you can really start to leverage persistence, because you can create the 'perfect' room for any use-case you've identified (e.g. webinar, virtual classroom, e-detailing, product rollout, virtual baby shower, etc.) and you can then turn your masterpiece into a re-usable template that can be shared with all of your colleagues. Not only can this facilitate overall rollout and adoption of Adobe Connect, templates represent a potentially huge productivity gain. Imagine all the time your trainers can save by not wasting it on 'administrivia' related to scheduling sessions and uploading content.

While there is already some pretty good documentation and resources on the topic of persistence and templates, I thought it would be helpful to compile a list of what items/settings persist across sessions in a meeting room, and which items/settings are inherited from a template. I probably missed a couple of items here and there, but I think the list below is pretty exhaustive. FYI, the items in bold came as a bit of a surprise to me. Enjoy!

	Persist across sessions	Inherited from template
Room Properties
Custom URL	Yes	No
Audio conference settings	Yes	No
Language	Yes	No
Access	Yes	No
Participants	Yes	No
Uploaded Content	Yes	No
Recordings	Yes	No
Reports	Yes	No
Room Layouts & Pods
Layouts	Yes	Yes
Layout bar visibility	No	No
Custom pod titles	Yes	Yes
Presenter only area	Yes	Yes
Prepare mode	No	No
Move and resize pods toggle	Yes	Yes
Attendee List View	No	No
Number of breakouts	Yes	No
Breakout setup	Yes	No
Distribution of breakout participants	No	No
Chat - text size	No	No
Chat - text color	No	No
Chat content	Yes	Yes
Notes pod - content
Notes pod - formatting
Content in Share pod	Yes	Yes
Share History	Yes	Yes
Video playback	Yes	Yes
PowerPoint - bookmarking	Yes	No
PowerPoint - annotations	Yes	Yes
Web Links	Yes	Yes
Polls	Yes	Yes
Poll titles	Yes	Yes
Poll states	Yes	Yes
Poll results	Yes	No
Poll results format	Yes	No
Poll broadcast results	Yes	Yes
Breakout Rooms
Number of breakouts	Yes	No
Breakout setup	Yes	No
Distribution of breakout participants	No	No
Preferences
Room background	Yes	Yes
Host Cursors	Yes	Yes
Room bandwidth	Yes	Yes
Display name settings	Yes	Yes
Audio - Enhanced Audio	Yes	Yes
Audio - Speex Codec	Yes	Yes
Video quality setting	Yes	Yes
Screen share settings	Yes	Yes
Raise hand settings	Yes	Yes
Attendees display settings	Yes	No
Private chat setting	Yes	Yes
Q&A pod setting	Yes	Yes
Enable webcam for participants	No	No
Microphone rights	No	No
Single speaker mode	Yes	No
Meeting Access etc.
Block guest access	Yes	No
Block incoming attendees	Yes	Yes
Block incoming attendees - message	Yes	Yes
Place attendees on hold	Yes	Yes
Place attendees on hold - message	Yes	Yes
Auto-promote participants to presenters	Yes	Yes
End meeting - message	Yes	Yes
End meeting - URL	Yes	Yes
End meeting - Open URL for everyone checkbox	No	No