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Block All Messages When Sharing Screen

I do not want people to see messages coming up while presenting

  • Guest
  • Jul 7 2020
  • Future consideration
  • Andy Chen commented
    September 13, 2022 09:16

    When you're sharing screens in an important meeting, I think you should turn off unnecessary software as much as possible so you can focus more on the meeting. You can disable the Webex popover, but it's possible that other programs will also have popovers.

  • Curtis Cox commented
    February 18, 2022 06:13

    There is a way to do this in WebEx Meeting. It's just kind of clunky. It's under the Participant Menu as "assign privileges" and another option under the Meeting Menu as Options. You can just remove the option of Chat. The Host can restore it after the Presenter is finished if needed. Like I said, it's clunky. A quick "do not disturb" button would be better. The Presenter, Host and Cohosts should be able to do this on the fly.

  • Guest commented
    November 08, 2021 02:33

    Please expedite this feature request


  • Webex Trash commented
    September 14, 2021 09:30

    Yes please

  • Michelle Chandler commented
    August 11, 2021 22:17

    CANNOT BELIEVE DND IS NOT A DEFAULT WHEN PRESENTING!

  • Dennis Furniss commented
    November 13, 2020 18:55

    Is this feature not already available by sharing the application instead of the screen?

  • Bruno Carvalho commented
    October 23, 2020 11:26

    For me this should be simple: If they change the "presenting" mode on Webex Teams to act the same way as the Do Not Disturb mode, all the issue would be solved. Having to change manually to Do Not Disturb every time that you are sharing your screen, doesn't make any sense.

  • Kevin Major commented
    October 01, 2020 02:46

    I'll agree, however, that messages within the tool (e.g. Teams) can/should be allows to be restricted if presenting in Teams though. That's a no brainer.

  • Kevin Major commented
    October 01, 2020 02:44

    I don't see this as a Webex issue. All modern OS's have the feature to disable messages, popup or notices. Learning to use the built-in features is a lot better than adding another feature to a tool to control things like that.

  • Scott Hinchman commented
    August 19, 2020 11:44

    blows my mind that this isnt a default

  • Guest commented
    July 22, 2020 19:37

    Some ideas on this site simply fix minor annoyances.
    Other ideas, like this one, are the difference between building successful relationships with your coworkers, or embarassing yourself and causing lots of problems with your coworkers.

    Consider this feature "essential". It's one of those things that will either make people be happy they're using your product, or motivate them to explain to all their friends how your product single-handedly caused a lot of problems for everyone. The difference between a high level executive saying "I'm glad Webex respected my privacy during that big presentation!" and "We're dropping support for Webex because it leaked private company information." is pretty big. The marketing value alone should be worth the small amount of developer time to make sure this feature is implemented correctly.

  • Guest commented
    July 20, 2020 20:31

    Dominic my screen does not automatically flip to do not disturb and does not prevent messages from showing up. If there is a setting to that it'd be AMAZING!

  • Guest commented
    July 18, 2020 16:42

    maybe I'm missing something here.. but when I am joining a meeting through my teams client and sharing my screen, my teams status changes to red and suppresses the notification on my laptop.

  • Guest commented
    July 15, 2020 14:49

    Huge! Users are currently logging off Webex Teams when presenting so that messages are not showing on their screen

  • Kyle Diemer commented
    July 10, 2020 16:20

    I wish I could vote for this 10 times. Nearly every one of my meetings have webex messages popping up while the presenter is sharing their screen.

  • Scott Hinchman commented
    July 09, 2020 17:38

    DND should just be the default to mistake proof this.

  • Guest commented
    July 08, 2020 04:29

    This is very disruptive and can be embarrassing as well.... @April: Thanks for the tip will remembers to go on DND before meetings.... Given that this is a smaller feature I would hope that the web ex prioritizes this...

  • April Wozniak commented
    July 07, 2020 19:22

    Nothing makes your heart skip an extra beat when you are sharing your screen with a client and see a WebEx Team notification pop up because you forgot to go on Do Not Disturb.

  • Donna Seymour commented
    July 07, 2020 19:12

    This is problematic any would be a great improvement. You have to log out of WebEx before presenting to avoid the pop ups and I don't always remember. It is disruptive.

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