Description
According to https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/meetings/meetingcreate one is able to enable join_before_host on scheduled on reocurring meetings. However on setting this and attempting to join from an unauthed user or a user from a different account, one is greeted by `waiting for host.
The returned meeting does have the join_before_host setting set to true, which is the even weirder part.
Error
See above
Which Endpoint/s?
See above with a jwt app.
How To Reproduce (If applicable)
Use endpoint above, set join_before_host to true and meeting type to 2 (scheduled meeting)
Set time to a minute in the future utc.
Receive a 201 response with join_before_host clearly set to true
Try to join as someone else and be sad
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Additional context
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Ok, thanks to some wonderful help from my coworker and lot’s of trial and error. We discovered there was a waiting room setting implicitly added to the meeting.
I do not recall that being the case a year ago, but I might be misremembering!
Looks like this is not a bug, it still might be worth updating the documentation to let user’s know the waiting room setting defaults to true and the join_before_host setting is overridden by that one.
Happy to hear you got this sorted out. We’ll look into updating our documentation to try and make things a bit clearer, but appreciate your raising this with us! Another reason this could’ve happened is that ‘join_before_host’ and waiting room settings could’ve been turned on at the account level, meaning unless join_before_host is explicitly stated in your API request, it will default to account-wide settings.
@matt@will.zoom Thank you for letting me know about this issue. The waiting room setting does override the join before host setting. I have updated the doc to reflect this.
