# Create a New Channel of Live Chat

This section describes for how to mechanism for add channel live chat, by doing the following steps:

On the top right corner of the Live Chat section, click the ‘**plus**’ button.

![Channel Connector](https://2268349083-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MNQidQwa-0K9_KnQpoc%2F-MT3lfUpV6OovdT6ETlg%2F-MT3tXCTkkTPwrDn_jhL%2FChannel%20Connector.png?alt=media\&token=e73b1232-0da8-48a8-b196-35254f16c2cb)

Then, you will see a pop-up form of channel setting. Normally only ‘**Channel Name**’ and ‘**Timeout**’ value is filled when creating new live chat channel.

![Channel Setting](https://2268349083-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MNQidQwa-0K9_KnQpoc%2F-MT3lfUpV6OovdT6ETlg%2F-MT3vTpj9t7frz0xA5mN%2FChannel%20Setting.png?alt=media\&token=5c74b271-5922-4082-804f-505d489f3062)

**Component Explanation:**

| **Field Name**            | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Channel Name              | The name of our live chat channel.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Timeout                   | <p>The duration of how long a client is allowed to be inactive before getting disconnected automatically from the live chat channel.<br>Fill the field with integer only, and the value is in second (<strong>example:</strong> If we allow our clients to be inactive for 1 hour, then fill the field with <strong>3600</strong> value).</p> |
| Allow Origin              | Specify which origin(s) are allowed to connect to the channel, left empty if we want it able to be connected from all origin (**example:** if we want it only able to be connected from example.com, fill the field with ‘<http://example.com’>).                                                                                             |
| Google Captcha Secret Key | Only fill this field if we want to validate client login with google Recaptcha, left empty if we want to skip the validation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

Next, click the 'save' button and if the channel is successfully created it will appear in the live chat channel list.

![Live Chat](https://2268349083-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MNQidQwa-0K9_KnQpoc%2F-MT3lfUpV6OovdT6ETlg%2F-MT3zvj9_GasIkiB9-yJ%2FLive%20Chat%20Edit.png?alt=media\&token=f15ef21c-33c3-41ae-b273-9222cee6de7b)

**Component Explanation:**

|  No | **Name**                         | Description                                                                                                                       |
| :-: | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|  1  | Refresh Button                   | Refresh your channel at any time to ensure you are always up to date with the refresh button.                                     |
|  2  | Online and Offline Button        | Click to turn on or off the channel. Red means offline, Green means online.                                                       |
|  3  | Delete Button                    | Click to delete the channel.                                                                                                      |
|  4  | Channel Key & Secret View Button | Click to view channel id and channel secret which is used as connection credential on the client-side (will get into that later). |
|  5  | Channel Config Edit Button       | Click to edit channel related config. Currently,  there is only allow origin field that is editable.                              |
|  6  | Channel URL Copy Button          | Click to copy the channel URL to the clipboard.                                                                                   |
|  7  | Channel ID                       | An ID, while you register with 3Dolphins. Each channel registered in Omni Channel 3Dolphins has a different ID.                   |
|  8  | Channel Name                     | Tricks: hover on top of the channel name to view the channel port.                                                                |