Button Configuration: Listen but Not Whisper?

[harold]

My scenario is this:

I have 2 groups of people that need atypical permissions. I have a group (Trainers) who needs to be able to listen and whisper, which was easy to configure. What I cannot figure out how to set up is permissions for my 2nd group (Trainees). The desire is for them to be able to listen, but not whisper. Googling around, I found that permissions for these two actions were merged. Is there a way to configure a group with the spy permission so that they are able to listen in, but not whisper, or is the spy permission all or nothing?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

[nicolas]

As you found out, the spy permission now groups both spy & whisper. So it is all or nothing using standard permissions/features.

It might be possible to overcome this but quite cumbersome, by setting the whisper permissions to be the same as spy (with no w option), and use the conference plugin and modify it a little so it works for whispering instead of barge. The conference plugin will require the 'conference' permission for users, but you have to dive into the code to set the w option instead of the barge one in the conference plugin source.

Best regards,

[harold]

Hi Nicolas,

I appreciate your response. I had a feeling that it would be all or nothing, and I am fine with that. I have a feeling that it will be much easier to convince users that ignoring the whisper button is the better option. Thanks so much for making this easy on a newby.