We are trying to find a chat module that will allow for students to chat with faculty but not with other students. This would allow faculty to have "online office hours" via chat where they can respond to student questions immediately. We'd rather not have students chat with each other as we are not ready to take on the role of a social network.

Can we restrict the online users list to only display those users with a specific role? We only want to display the online status of those persons who have the "faculty" role and completely disable the online status for all other roles.

Hope my question makes sense. Thanks for your help.

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darklrd commented

Hi ianchan,

DrupalChat supports integration with user relationship module (http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships). You can use UR module to create a new relationship, say "faculty-student", which will exist between faculty and students. After this you can specify this relationship name on DrupalChat module configuration page. The DrupalChat module will then automatically restrict online users list according to this new relationship.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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ianchan commented

Yes, that is very helpful. Thanks for the info. I will try out the UR module.

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darklrd commented

Did this work out? Thanks