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DSU II Digital Expandable Systems

Attendant Manual

GCA70245.07 06/03 Printed in U.S.A.

This user’s guide is for the following system:

DSU II Digital Expandable Systems

This user’s guide applies to the following telephone models:

•Impact 8012S-** Rev. A and later.

•Impact 8024S-** Rev. A and later.

•Impact SCS 8324S-** Rev. A and later

•Impact SCS 8312S-** Rev. A and later

•Impact SCS 8324F-** Rev. A and later

Contact your Comdial dealer for updates of this as well as other

Comdial publications.

Comdial Corporation

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(941)554-5000 or (800)266-3425

-Notice-

Comdial reserves the right to make any changes and improvements in the

product described in this document at any time and without prior notice.

Impact is a trademark of Comdial Corporation. All other product names

are trademarks of their respective owners.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started ...................................................................... 1

1.1 Setting Up Your Speakerphone .................................................. 1

1.1.1 Positioning Your Speakerphone ........................................ 2

1.1.2 Setting Display Contrast .................................................... 3

1.1.3 Setting a Personal Ringing Tone........................................ 4

1.1.4 Setting Volume Levels....................................................... 5

1.1.5 Answering and Making Calls............................................. 6

1.2 Understanding the Basic Functions ............................................ 7

1.3 Your Speakerphone’s Buttons .................................................... 9

1.4 Your Speakerphone’s Display Lights ...................................... 12

1.5 Understanding the Rings Patterns ............................................ 14

2. Answering Calls .................................................................. 15

2.1 Answering Outside Calls .......................................................... 15

2.2 Answering Intercom Calls ........................................................ 16

2.3 Monitored Stations ................................................................... 17

2.4 Holding Calls ............................................................................ 18

2.4.1 Exclusive Hold................................................................. 18

2.4.2 Hold Recalls..................................................................... 19

2.4.3 Directed Hold................................................................... 20

2.5 Night Transferred Calls - Line Answer From Any Station ...... 21

2.6 Caller ID (Automatic Number Identification) .......................... 21

2.7 Call Pickup ............................................................................... 22

2.7.1 Group Call Pickup............................................................ 22

2.7.2 Directed Call Pickup ........................................................ 22

2.8 Receiving Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements

(SOHVA) .................................................................................. 24

2.8.1 Handling an Incoming SOHVA....................................... 24

2.8.2 Blocking a SOHVA ......................................................... 26

2.9 Voice Announce Blocking ....................................................... 27

3. Making Calls ........................................................................ 29

3.1 Making Outside Calls ............................................................... 29

3.2 Making Intercom Calls ............................................................. 30

3.3 Automatic Dialing .................................................................... 31

3.4 Redialing .................................................................................. 32

3.4.1 Redial - Last-Dialed Number .......................................... 32

3.4.2 Automatic Redial............................................................. 32

3.4.3 Redial Programming (Storing Numbers) ........................ 33

3.5 Sending Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA) 34

3.6 Camping On and Queuing ........................................................35

3.6.1 Busy or Idle Station, Automatic Callback....................... 35

3.6.2 Busy Station, Wait For An Answer (Call Waiting) ........ 36

3.7 Executive Override ...................................................................37

4. Advanced Call Handling...................................................... 39

4.1 Waiting for a Line (Queuing) ...................................................39

4.2 Call Transferring .......................................................................40

4.2.1 Screened Call Transfers .................................................. 40

4.2.2 Unscreened Call Transfers .............................................. 42

4.3 Conferencing ............................................................................ 43

4.3.1 Creating a Conference Call ............................................. 43

4.3.2 Unsupervised Conference Calls ...................................... 44

4.4 Call Parking ..............................................................................45

4.4.1 Handling Park Recalls..................................................... 45

4.5 Call Forwarding ........................................................................47

4.5.1 Forwarding a Call............................................................ 47

4.6 Call Forward Outside System (CFOS) .....................................49

5. Nonverbal Messaging.......................................................... 51

5.1 Station-to-Station Message Delivery ........................................51

5.2 Message Waiting Light and Messaging .................................... 52

5.3 LCD Message Delivery ............................................................ 54

5.4 Assist Button Message Delivery ...............................................56

5.5 Response Message Delivery .....................................................56

6. rogramming.......................................................................... 57

6.1 DSS Numbers ...........................................................................57

6.2 Autodial And Speed Dial Numbers ........................................ 58

6.3 Feature Access Codes ...............................................................60

6.4 Feature Buttons .........................................................................62

6.4.1 Response Message Button............................................... 64

6.4.2 Transfer Button ............................................................... 64

6.4.3 Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announce (SOHVA) Button. 65

6.4.4 Group Listening Button................................................... 65

6.4.5 Assist Button.................................................................... 66

6.4.6 Automatic Redial Button ................................................. 67

7. Other Features..................................................................... 69

7.1 Line Groups .............................................................................. 69

7.2 Volume Control ........................................................................ 70

7.2.1 Setting Current Volume Level ......................................... 70

7.2.2 Muting Your Speakerphone............................................. 71

7.3 Default Volume Control ........................................................... 72

7.4 Background Music ................................................................... 73

7.5 Do Not Disturb Condition ........................................................ 74

7.6 Account Codes ......................................................................... 75

7.7 Paging ....................................................................................... 76

7.8 Tracker Paging System ............................................................. 78

7.9 Auxiliary Jack .......................................................................... 81

7.10 Automatic Set Relocation ....................................................... 83

7.11 Service Observing .................................................................. 84

7.12 Switching The Dialing Mode Between Pulse And Tone ....... 84

7.13 Toll Restriction Override ....................................................... 85

7.14 Dial By Name ......................................................................... 86

7.15 Programmed Button Display .................................................. 87

7.15.1 Button Functions Display (Button Query).................... 87

7.16 Data Interface Unit ................................................................. 88

7.17 IMIST Module ........................................................................ 89

7.18 DSS/BLF Console Operation ................................................. 90

7.18.1 Accessing The DSS/BLF Console Button Levels ........ 91

8. Attendant Features.............................................................. 93

8.1 LCD Message Creation ............................................................ 93

8.1.1 LCD Message Creation Examples.................................. 94

8.2 System Telephone Naming ...................................................... 96

8.3 Night Transfer .......................................................................... 98

8.4 Call Transfer - Voice Mail System .......................................... 99

8.5 Call Transfer - Transferring Recalls to a Secondary Attendant

Telephone ............................................................................... 100

8.6 System Speed Dial Numbers .................................................. 101

8.7 System Clock .......................................................................... 103

8.8 Music On Hold ....................................................................... 103

8.9 Station Message Detail Accounting (SMDA) Printout .......... 104

8.10 System Alarm Reporting ......................................................105

8.11 Direct Inward Station Dialing (DISD) ..................................106

8.12 Digital Voice Announcing (DVA) .......................................107

8.12.1 Day answer messages.................................................. 108

8.12.2 Night answer messages ............................................... 108

8.12.3 Recall messages........................................................... 108

8.12.4 Drop message .............................................................. 109

Appendix A Feature Access Codes ..................................... 111

Appendix B Display Abbreviations...................................... 115

Appendix C Speakerphone Characteristics ........................ 119

8.13 Full-Duplex Speakerphone Characteristics ..........................119

8.14 Speakerphone User Guidelines .............................................120

Appendix D Glossary ............................................................ 123

Index .......................................................................................... 133

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

As a system attendant, you must be familiar with the operation of your individual station and the entire digital communication system. This attendant manual serves as both an introduction to the individual speakerphone and system for new users and a reference for experi enced users.

Introduction

The first chapter of the manual describes the initial setup and adjustments necessary to begin using your speakerphone.

1 Getting Started

Basic Operation

The basic operation chapters define often-used features and provide instructions for their use. These chapters are titled as follows:

2 Answering Calls

3 Making Calls

Advanced Operation

The chapters that describe the advanced features of the DXP, DXP Plus, and FX Series systems are as follows:

4 Advanced Call Handling

5 Nonverbal Messaging

6Programming

7 Other Features

In addition to the chapters which describe the advanced features of individual stations, this manual also includes a chapter to describe the features of the system which are programmed by the attendant.

8 Attendant Features

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Following the advanced feature descriptions are two reference tables that provide a summary and reference of features.

Appendix A Quick Reference Guide

Appendix B Display Abbreviations

Also, tips on speakerphone use for the new users are described in Appendix C and many general phrases and abbreviations which may not be familiar to users are defined in the glossary. Finally, an index completes the reference section.

Appendix C Speakerphone Characteristics

Appendix D Glossary

Appendix E Feature Networking Support

Index

What is an Attendant?

The attendant of a telephone system is typically the first person to answer an incoming call and usually directs incoming calls to the proper person or department within the system. In addition to call control, the attendant controls system-wide operating features such as night transfer (of ringing) and the system clock. Additionally, the attendant is responsible for programming such items as system speed dial numbers and LCD messages that are available to many of the system users.

The system provides two fixed attendant positions at default (stations 1 and 2, intercom 1001 and 1002); however, installers can assign any or all stations (up to 96 total) as attendant stations if they wish. Installers can also assign up to four DSS/BLF consoles to each attendant position where needed. In addition to the many installerenabled feature buttons that the system can make available at any station, the system provides the attendant position with several special purpose installer-enabled feature buttons to enhance call pro cessing. These special purpose buttons are described in Chapter 8.

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The system also provides capabilities for either a local stand-alone system or a system-to-system network. System-to-system net

working connects several DXP, DXP Plus, FXS, FXT, and FXII systems together in an arrangement that allows unified communica

tions through the system. For a complete list of features and their properties, see Appendix E, Feature Networking Support.

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1. GETTING STARTED

Congratulations and thank you for using a Comdial telephone system! Your digital speakerphone is supported by a communication system with hundreds of built-in, standard features. This manual serves as a helpful guide for using these various functions. The sections in this introductory chapter help you initially set up your speakerphone and become familiar with the controls and indicators. The remaining sec tions are titled as follows:

• Setting Up Your Speakerphone

• Understanding the Basic Functions

• Your Speakerphone’s Buttons

• Your Speakerphone’s Display Lights

• Understanding What the Rings Mean

After setting up your individual station, you are ready to begin your duties as the system attendant. Chapter 8, Attendant Features, con tains instructions on station and line enabling, station naming, and other system level actions that you should accomplish to effectively begin operation of your Comdial digital system.

1.1 Setting Up Your Speakerphone

When your new speakerphone arrives, unpacks your speakerphone and connects the line to a system jack. The following sections describe a few initial adjustments that allow you to quickly begin making and answering calls with some of the most basic features.

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1.1.1 POSITIONING YOUR SPEAKERPHONE

You should adjust the position of the speakerphone on your desk or table to suit your individual needs and maximize the performance of the sound activated features. When using your speakerphone, the microphone and loudspeaker are farther from you than when you use a handset. Some positioning tips to consider include:

• For the microphone to best detect your voice, speak within three feet of it and face the speakerphone.

• Background noise may prevent the sound-activated switches from operating properly. Avoid placing the speakerphone where it will detect sounds from typewriters, keyboards, printers, paging systems, and other equipment.

• Place the telephone on a hard surface and away from table edges. Do not place the telephone in corners or enclosures. Do not let obstructions come between you and the microphone.

If you are using an Impact SCS model, your telephone has an adjustable pedestal to allow you to select the most comfortable viewing angle. When you receive the telephone, the pedestal is in its lowest position—flush against the pedestal.

• To adjust the pedestal (Models 8312S, 8324S and 8324F only),

1. GRASP the rear of the pedestal

base firmly with one hand AND LIFT the rear portion of the tele phone upward with your other hand.

2. LIFT the telephone upward with

one hand AND RAISE the tele phone supporting arms upward with your other hand. (Notice there are three sets of notches under the telephone corresponding to the three positions available.)

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3. When the telephone is at the desired height, SELECT the closest pair

of notches AND INSERT the supporting arms in the notches. PRESS DOWN slightly on the telephone until you feel the supporting arms snap into place.

Also remember, as with any piece of electronic equipment, your telephone may be damaged by contact with liquids. So please try to place the telephone in an area that is free from the danger of spills.

Note: For more tips and information on speakerphone use, including the use of a Full-Duplex Speakerphone, see Appendix C, Speakerphone Characteristics.

1.1.2 SETTING DISPLAY CONTRAST

You can darken or lighten the contrast of the display for best viewing.

• To adjust the display contrast,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the DISP

option appears.

3. SELECT DISP. Your display will

read

CONTRAST LEVEL

4. SELECT LIGHT or DARK once for

each degree of change desired.

5. SELECT PREV to return to main

display.

6. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

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1.1.3 SETTING A PERSONAL RINGING TONE

You can choose one of six different ring tones for your telephone. Often, when several telephones are located close together, each user chooses a different personal ring tone.

• To select one of the ring tones, proceed as follows:

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the RING

option appears.

3. SELECT RING.

4. SELECT UP OR DOWN to choose

ring tone in display (a new tone will sound at each up or down press).

5. SELECT PREV to return to main

display.

6. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

Selecting the Ring Tone

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1.1.4 SETTING VOLUME LEVELS

The volume control on your telephone is a multipurpose control you can use to set the volume (loudness) of the ringer, the speaker, and the handset.

• To set the ringer loudness level,

—While your telephone is on-hook

and idle, PRESS the VOLUME UP OR VOLUME DOWN button once for each change in loudness you desire. The ringer sounds once for each change as an exam

Impact SCS Volume Button

ple of the current setting.

Note: If you set the ringer to the OFF position, your telephone sounds a short ring burst once for each call you receive at your station.

• To set the speaker and handset loudness levels,

1. PRESS INTERCOM button.

2. PRESS the VOLUME UP OR VOL-

UME DOWN button once for each change in speaker volume that you desire.

3. LIFT handset.

4. PRESS the VOLUME UP OR VOL-

UME DOWN button once for each change in handset volume that you desire.

Impact Volume Buttons

Note: When a call ends, the system resets the speaker and handset volume of all future calls to the programmed (default) setting. For instructions in setting your speakerphone’s default volume, see Default Volume Control on page 72.

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1.1.5 ANSWERING AND MAKING CALLS

Your speakerphone is now properly configured to answer and making calls to both stations within your system (intercom calls) and outside lines. Remember that when dialing an outside number, you must first select a line to connect your system to the local exchange.

• When you hear outside ringing (single long bursts),

1. PRESS flashing line button.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

• When you hear intercom ringing (two short bursts),

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

• To dial an outside number manually,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL 9 OR PRESS other line button to select line (See Line Groups

section on page 69 for more information on selecting an outside line).

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1.2 Understanding the Basic Functions

Your speakerphone provides many versatile features for your use. These features are explained in terms of what they allow you to do.

Alphanumeric Display (Liquid Crystal Display—LCD)

• Displays time, day, date, and active call information.

• Keeps you apprized of the status of your telephone.

• Provides programming prompts.

Auxiliary Jack (available only on Impact 8024S and Impact

SCS Models)

• Allows you to connect a headset, an external amplified ringer, a tape recorder, or an external paging amplifier to your telephone.

Message-Waiting Light

• Indicates that a message awaits pick up.

Microphone Opening

• Allows hands-free operation of speakerphone (speak clearly toward microphone opening).

Speaker

• Sounds distant party’s voice.

• Sounds ringing and call-in-progress tones.

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Impact 8024S-** LCD Speakerphone

Impact SCS 8312S=** LCD Speakerphone

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1.3 Your Speakerphone’s Buttons

Hold Button (HOLD)

• Places a line or intercom call on hold.

• Stores pauses in number sequences during programming.

Interactive Buttons (located below alphanumeric display)

• Provide quick and easy access to system features.

• Provide straightforward button programming without dialing codes (the interactive buttons themselves, however, are not programmable).

Intercom Button (INTERCOM)

• Selects an intercom line.

• Allows you to initiate many of the telephone’s features.

Mute Button (MUTE)

• Keeps the person on the line from hearing your conversation.

• Reply to a Subdued Off Hook Voice Announcement (SOHVA).

Programmable Buttons (also known as Direct Station Select/Busy Lamp Field (DSS/BLF) Buttons)

• Allow you to store numbers for automatic dialing functions.

• Allow you to store telephone extension numbers for Direct Station Selection (DSS).

• May be programmed as a feature button.

• May be designated a line button by your system installer.

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Shift Button (SHIFT)

• Allows you to access an autodial number programmed in the second tier under a DSS button. (That is, you can store an autodial number at every programmable DSS button location— a DSS in the regular tier and an autodial in the second tier). You activate the shift function by pressing this button and turning the shift light on before automatically dialing an autodial number from the second tier.

Speaker Button (SPEAKER)

• Turns your speaker on or off.

• Disconnects a call when you are on a hands-free call.

• Ends or cancels programming.

• Activates group listening feature.

Tap Button (TAP)

• Recalls dial tone or generates a hookflash.

• Retrieves held calls or last call placed on hold.

Transfer/Conference Button (TRNS/CONF)

• Transfers calls.

• Sets up conference calls.

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Volume Control (VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN)

• Regulates the volume of the ringer, speaker, handset, headset, and group listening mode.

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1.4 Your Speakerphone’s Display Lights

The lights (LEDs) on your LCD speakerphone indicate the status of lines, features, and intercoms.

Busy Lamp Field (BLF) lights (next to a programmable Direct Station Select button):

• Steady red = station is in use or in Do Not Disturb.

• Flashing red = station is receiving a call or calling you.

• Fluttering red = station-to-station messaging has been set by the station associated with this programmable button

Next to a line button:

• Steady green = this is your line, either on-hook (in a hands-free mode) or off-hook, when the line is active.

• Steady red = another station is using this line.

• Flashing red = a call is coming in on this line.

• Flashing orange = this line will be answered when you lift the handset.

• Winking green = your line is on hold.

• Winking red = the call has been placed on hold by another station.

• Fluttering green = your line has recalled from hold.

• Fluttering red = the line put on hold by another station has recalled.

Note: You can find the programmable buttons that the installer designates line buttons in the same location as the DSS/BLF but tons. Ensure that these buttons are labeled correctly to indicate their unique features.

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Next to a fixed feature or programmable feature button:

• Steady red = the feature is on.

• Steady off = the feature is off.

NOTE: You can find the programmable buttons that the installer designates feature buttons through user programming in the same location as the DSS/BLF buttons. Ensure that these buttons are labeled correctly to indicate their unique features.

Above the MUTE button:

• On steady = called party cannot hear your conversation.

Next to INTERCOM button:

• Steady red with a quick flash = you are using your intercom.

• Winking red = an LCD message is set on your telephone for others to receive when calling.

• Flashing red = someone is calling your extension

• Fluttering red = auto-redial is in use or system is in night mode.

Above the HOLD button:

• Flashing red (non-SCS Models only) = message awaits pick up.

• Fluttering red = automatic station relocation has been set.

Next to the MESSAGE button (SCS models only)

• Flashing red = message awaits pick up.

Above the SPEAKER button:

• On steady (with the telephone on hook and busy) = speakerphone mode is active.

• On steady (with telephone on hook and idle) = background music is turned on.

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1.5 Understanding the Rings Patterns

• Two short rings = intercom call.

• Single longer ring = outside call.

• One short ring burst = voice announce.

• Three short ring bursts = ring back from a held call, callback from a queued call.

You can vary the ringing tone of your telephone, choosing from one of six different rings. This way, you can identify your ring even though you may not be close to your telephone.

Additionally, so you won’t be disturbed when you’re busy on a call and another call rings at your station, the ring volume is subdued automatically.

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2. ANSWERING CALLS

2.1 Answering Outside Calls

A call that rings on an outside line sounds long, single-tone bursts and lights the line status light. If the installer enabled ringing line pref erence at your station, an orange light flashes next to the line that your station answers when you lift the handset; a red light flashes for any other ringing line.

Also, when an outside call rings at your station, the LCD screen displays any caller ID information that your station is programmed to receive.

• When you hear outside ringing (long bursts) and observe an orange flashing light,

1. For speakerphone, PRESS flashing line button AND SPEAK toward

telephone.

2. For privacy, LIFT handset.

• When you hear outside ringing (long bursts) and observe a red flashing light,

1. PRESS flashing line button.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

Note: For more information on setting DND at your station, see section titled Do Not Disturb Condition on page 74.

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2.2 Answering Intercom Calls

An intercom call is one that is made from one system telephone to another. Your station receives intercom calls in one of two ways depending upon system programming. With a tone-first setting, the telephone rings in a distinctive pattern and the user of the receiving station must take action to answer.

• When you hear intercom ringing (two short bursts),

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

In a voice-first setting, a short tone is followed by the caller’s voice heard on the speaker. As with an incoming outside call, the LCD screen displays caller ID information and your other options for answering the call.

• When you hear an intercom tone followed by a caller’s voice,

—SPEAK toward the telephone to answer OR LIFT handset if

privacy is desired.

Note: For more information on setting DND at your station, see section titled Do Not Disturb Condition on page 74.

When your system installer makes the option available to system users, you can block all voice announce intercom calls to your station if you wish. See the section titled Voice Announce Blocking on page

27.

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2.3 Monitored Stations

When the installer assigns the personal intercom number of one telephone to appear at a button on another telephone, the button and its associated light provide a direct station select (DSS) busy lamp field (BLF) feature. With this feature, the user can monitor the status of the appearing station.

When the station monitoring feature is off, the status light shows the state of the monitored telephone.

When the station monitoring feature is on, the status light shows activity status (idle, ringing, busy, and hold) of the monitored tele phone.

• To monitor another telephone,

1. OBSERVE the BLF light indications next to the Direct Station Select

(DSS/BLF) button:

• Off = Station is idle.

• Flashing (if enabled) = Station has an incoming call.

• On = Station is busy.

Your telephone may have the personal intercom number of another telephone appearing at a programmable button location. You can press the DSS/BLF button to call that telephone or to answer a call that is ringing at the monitored station if you wish.

• To call an idle monitored station or to answer one that is ringing,

1. NOTE the BLF light condition.

2. PRESS assigned DSS/BLF button.

3. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

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2.4 Holding Calls

This feature allows you to temporarily disconnect from a current call yet retain it so that it can be retrieved. When you place a call on hold, you are free to use your telephone for other calls or features and then return to the held call. At a multiline telephone, you can put a call on hold manually, by pressing the HOLD button, or automatically (if programmed), by pressing another line button.

You can place a call on hold in either an exclusive or non-exclusive manner. With a regular or non-exclusive hold, you can pick up the held call at your telephone or another user can pick the call up at a telephone sharing the held call line.

• To place a call on hold (non-exclusive),

—PRESS HOLD. The light above your line button begins to blink.

• To retrieve a held call,

1. PRESS line button of the held call (with winking light), OR PRESS

TAP.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

2.4.1 EXCLUSIVE HOLD

Exclusive hold prohibits a user from retrieving a held call at any station other than the one where someone placed it on hold. The exclusive hold condition also links the held call to the timed hold recall time-out feature. After time-out, audible and visual signaling occurs and the exclusive hold condition reverts to a normal hold con dition. The installer enables or disables exclusive hold as a class of service feature.

• To place a call on exclusive hold,

—PRESS HOLD twice.

• To retrieve exclusive hold,

1. PRESS line button of held call (with winking light), OR PRESS TAP.

2. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

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2.4.2 HOLD RECALLS

After a call has been on hold for the period of time (set by the installer of your system), the system causes three quick hold recall tone bursts to sound at your telephone and the flash rate of the line button becomes faster.

If the call is on exclusive hold, it will revert to manual hold after the hold recall period. Calls that revert to manual hold can be picked up from any telephone with line appearance for the recalling line.

• If a held line is recalling, choose one of the following:

1. SELECT HOLD (interactive button)

to place the call on hold at your sta tion and restart hold timer.

2. PRESS line button (with fluttering

green light) OR SELECT ANS to retrieve the call.

ecall L123

HOLD ANS

A Recalling Held Line

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2.4.3 DIRECTED HOLD

This feature allows you to pick up the last call a user placed on hold at another station. This feature does not allow you to pick up exclusive hold calls or calls that are in the process of being transferred. In addition, this feature allows you to place a call on hold at another station and have this call appear to be the one that has been on hold there for the longest time. Features such as hold recall apply to the station that received the directed hold call and not to the station that sent the directed hold call.

• To place a call on hold at another telephone (directed hold),

1. While on line, PRESS INTERCOM OR TRNS/CONF if intercom

call.

2. DIAL *90.

3. DIAL extension number of telephone to receive held call.

You can pick this call back up if you need to. To do this,

1. DIAL *4.

2. DIAL extension number of that telephone.

3. ANSWER call as desired OR PRESS SPEAKER to hang up.

• To pick up a call that was placed on hold at your telephone by a user at another telephone,

—PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL #90.

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2.5 Night Transferred Calls - Line Answer From Any Station

When you, as the attendant, program the system for nighttime operation using the night transfer of ringing feature, the line answer from any station feature is made active. With this feature, you can dial an access code over the intercom line to allow you to answer any ringing outside line. The line need not be ringing at the your station for this feature to be used.

• When you hear ringing,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL 80.

3. SPEAK toward telephone to answer call OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

2.6 Caller ID (Automatic Number Identification)

When installed by system programming, the Caller ID feature allows you to view incoming call numbers before you answer them. Incoming call numbers flash in the lower half of the LCD. If you answer the call, the number appears in the upper half of the LCD.

If another call rings in while on a call, the second caller’s number flashes on the LCD for five seconds. The system stores the last caller’s number.

• To dial the number of the last incoming call while on an active call,

1. PRESS HOLD.

2. PRESS programmed SAVED NUMBER REDIAL button. (See Fea-

ture Buttons section on page 87 for programming.)

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2.7 Call Pickup

In addition to using your speakerphone’s DSS/BLF buttons to access calls, the system offers two other distinct methods to answer incoming calls that are ringing at other stations.

2.7.1 GROUP CALL PICKUP

The installer often arranges several telephones together in a user group. Up to four different groups can exist with any number of sta tions in a group. If your telephone is so arranged, you can answer calls that are ringing at other stations within your particular group.

• To answer a call that is ringing within your group,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #4.

3. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

2.7.2 DIRECTED CALL PICKUP

Also, you can answer a call that is ringing at any telephone in the system if you know the ringing telephone’s extension number.

To answer a call that is ringing at any telephone in the system,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL *4.

3. DIAL extension number of ringing telephone.

4. SPEAK toward telephone OR LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

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If you have programmed a PICK UP button on your telephone (see Feature Buttons on page 87 of this guide), you may make a call pickup (either within your group or at a specific station inside or outside your group) using that button.

For a discussion on using a DSS/BLF button to answer an incoming call, see Monitored Stations section on page 17.

If ringing telephone

is within your designated

calling group...

For any ringing telephone...

Your

Station

If you have programmed

a DSS/BLF button for

the ringing telephone...

Answering Calls for Other Stations

...DIAL # 4

...DIAL 4 + extension code

✳

...PRESS

flashing

DSS/BLF

button

Ringing Station

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2.8 Receiving Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA)

2.8.1 HANDLING AN INCOMING SOHVA

This feature allows an intercom caller to break into your call by making an announcement through your handset receiver. With SOHVA, the announcement is delivered and responded to in a subdued manner that prevents the distant party from hearing either the announcement or the response. A tone alert precedes the announcement and is delivered to the handset receiver of the tele phone ahead of the announcement.

You can respond to the announcement in a verbal or non-verbal manner. You deliver a verbal response by pressing and holding the MUTE button or appropriate interactive button and speaking into the handset.

• To respond to a SOHVA verbally,

1. SELECT AND HOLD MUTE.

2. SPEAK into handset. Distant party

cannot hear your response.

3. RELEASE MUTE after response is

complete to return to distant party.

12 Calling

BLOCK

Incoming SOHVA

MSG

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You can respond with a non-verbal response by pressing a programmed button to send a message to be shown on the display of the announcing station (if it is an LCD speakerphone).

• To respond to a SOHVA nonverbally through Response Messaging,

1. SELECT MSG.

2. SELECT HVHLD OR TKMSG OR

CLBK. (Message appears in the dis play of the telephone making the SOHVA).

3. CONTINUE your current call with distant party. (SOHVA caller is

automatically disconnected from your telephone).

NOTE: A station that is currently active in speakerphone mode or has Voice Announce Block set CAN NOT receive a SOHVA.

S12 Calling

HVHLD

TKMSG CLBK

Message Response

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2.8.2 BLOCKING A SOHVA

You can also block an incoming SOHVA with the interactive buttons or by previously programming your speakerphone for Voice Announce Block. See Voice Announce Blocking section on page 27 for more information.

• To respond to a SOHVA by blocking,

—SELECT BLOCK when you hear SOHVA tone. (SOHVA call

is disconnected).

INCOMING

SOHVA

You r

Station

SOHVA RESPONSES

VERBAL

NONVERBAL

BLOCK

Answering aa SOHVA

Press and Hold MUTE

While Speaking

Select MSG And

Choose Message

To Deli ve r

Select BLOCK

To Disconnect

SOHVA

Delivering

Station

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2.9 Voice Announce Blocking

If your system installer makes this feature available, you can prevent voice announcements such as voice-first intercom calls from sounding over your telephone speaker if you wish. This feature also blocks Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA) and denies access in response to attempted SOHVAs.

• To block all voice-announced calls,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until VAB appears.

3. SELECT VAB.

4. SELECT ON to block.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

• To unblock all voice-announced calls,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until VAB appears.

3. SELECT VAB.

4. SELECT OFF to unblock.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

Voice Ann. Block

ON OFF< EXIT

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3. MAKING CALLS

3.1 Making Outside Calls

You can manually dial a number over any telephone line you select. Or, if the installer assigned a prime line or the idle line preference feature to your LCD speakerphone, the system automatically selects a line for use when you lift the handset.

• To dial an outside number manually,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL 9 OR other line button to

select line (See Line Groups section for more information on selecting an outside line).

3. LISTEN for dial tone.

4. DIAL number.

5. LIFT handset if privacy is desired.

Line 2

SAVEARDL

Outside Dialing Display

If your station has an assigned prime line, you will not have to select a line before dialing outside your system.

• To dial an outside number using your prime line,

1. LIFT handset if privacy is desired. Outside line is automatically

selected.

2. LISTEN for dial tone.

3. DIAL number.

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3.2 Making Intercom Calls

There are two methods for making an intercom call. One causes the called telephone to ring (tone-first). The other causes your voice to sound out at the called telephone (voice-first). Your installer can set the system to deliver either tone-first or voice-first calling.

NOTE: The following instructions assume a tone-first setting. You can change a call to voice announce signaling for that call simply by pressing the INTERCOM button again after dialing the exten sion number or by pressing the DSS/BLF button again.

• To manually cause the other telephone to ring (tone calling),

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL extension number (called tele-

phone will ring).

• To tone call automatically,

Doe

RACK CAMP MSG

Calling J Doe

—PRESS DSS/BLF button (called telephone will ring).

NOTE: The following instructions assume a voice-first default setting. Any user can change a call to a tone signaling for that call simply by pressing the INTERCOM button again after dialing the extension number or by pressing the DSS/BLF button again.

• To voice announce manually,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL extension number.

3. SPEAK your announcement.

• To voice announce automatically,

1. PRESS DSS/BLF button.

2. SPEAK your announcement.

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3.3 Automatic Dialing

This feature provides one- or two-button speed dialing using programmable buttons at which you have previously stored numbers. There are two types of speed dial numbers: (1) numbers that you store for your own use (personal speed dial numbers and autodial numbers), and (2) numbers that the system attendant stores for everyone’s use (system speed dial numbers).

• To automatically dial an autodial number from one of the programmable buttons on your station, choose one of the following:

1. PRESS programmed autodial button (line selection is usually a part of

the stored speed dial number).

2. PRESS SHIFT AND programmed autodial button (to choose number

stored as second choice at that button).

• To speed dial a personal speed dial number from the dial pad,

—While on hook, DIAL speed dial number on dial pad (0 to 9).

• To speed dial a system speed dial number from the dial pad,

—While on hook, DIAL * AND system speed dial number

(01 – 99).

NOTE: If you manually choose a line for dialing, press HOLD before using a speed dial. If you place a call on hold prior to using your speed dial, pause several seconds before you press the speed dial button; if you immediately press the speed dial button, the system will choose the line that you have on hold to place your speed dial call.

Autodial Numbers

Speed Dial Numbers

DIAL desired number

for personal speed dial

✳

DIAL and number

for system speed dial

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3.4 Redialing

3.4.1 REDIAL - LAST-DIALED NUMBER

The system provides each station with a last number redial feature. This feature saves 16 digits of the last outside number dialed at the station. number. will choose a line and redial the saved number.

A newly dialed number always replaces a previously dialed

When you press the last number redial button, the system

• To redial the last-dialed number,

1. PRESS SPEAKER OR HANG UP

handset to disconnect current ringing or busy tone.

2. DIAL #.

3. LISTEN for ringing or busy tone over

the telephone speaker:

918045551212

ARDL

Automatic Redial Option

SAVE

3.4.2 AUTOMATIC REDIAL

• To redial the number once a minute for 10 minutes,

1. SELECT ARDL OR PRESS programmed AUTOMATIC REDIAL

button. (See page 67 for directions on programming an Automatic Redial button.)

2. The number will be dialed once a minute for 10 minutes (INTER-

COM light flashes).

3. Listen for ringing or busy tone over the monitor speaker.

NOTE: You must pick up the handset once the call is connected, or the system will disconnect the call after 30 seconds.

• To cancel this automatic redial action,

1. LIFT AND REPLACE handset OR, USE the telephone for some

other function.

2. The INTERCOM light then turns off and the phone returns to idle.

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3.4.3 REDIAL PROGRAMMING (STORING NUMBERS)

When you use last number redial, you will overwrite the temporary system-saved number with subsequent dialing activity. However, you can also permanently save a number that remains available until you overwrite it by saving a different number at the same storage location.

To save a number, you press a SAVE button before hanging up after you dial the number.

To dial the saved number, press HOLD then press the same button and the system automatically dials the saved number

• To permanently store a number you’ve just dialed,

—SELECT SAVE.

• To dial the saved number,

1. PRESS HOLD.

2. PRESS programmed SAVE NUMBER REDIAL button. (See page 62 for instructions on programming a SAVE NUMBER REDIAL but ton.)

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3.5 Sending Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA)

You can make a private voice announcement to another station that is off-hook and busy on a call if the installer has arranged the system to provide this feature. With SOHVA, the announcement is delivered and responded to in a subdued manner that prevents the distant party from hearing either the announcement or the response. precedes the announcement and is delivered to the handset receiver of the telephone ahead of the announcement.

• Make a SOHVA announcement using the SOHVA button as follows:

1. MAKE intercom call AND HEAR

busy tone. If called station is on out side line, ring-back tone is heard, but SOHVA is still available.

2. SELECT SOHVA AND HEAR several quick tone bursts.

3. MAKE announcement (busy tone means that your SOHVA has been

denied through system programming or that the called party has blocked your SOHVA).

4. WAIT on line for reply (either verbal or LCD reply).

SOHVA

A tone alert

Doe Is Busy

CAMP NEXT

Making a SOHVA

The receiving station can respond to the announcement in a verbal or manner. They affect a verbal response

non-verbal

I Will Call Back

Wed 10:42

by pressing and holding the MUTE button and speaking into the handset. They effect non-verbal response by pressing a programmed button to send a

Receiving an LCD Reply

message to be shown on the display of the announcing station (if it is an LCD speakerphone).

The announcing station is automatically disconnected after the response message is displayed.

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3.6 Camping On and Queuing

3.6.1 BUSY OR IDLE STATION, AUTOMATIC CALLBACK

If the telephone you have called on an intercom line is busy or rings with no answer, you can have the system ring your telephone when the called station becomes idle (if it was busy) or when there is any activity initiated at that telephone (if it rang with no answer before).

• To camp on at a busy or no answer station,

1. MAKE intercom call.

NOTE: If you make a call in the voice-announce mode and receive no answer at the called station, press INTERCOM before selecting CAMP button in order to camp-on at that station.

2. SELECT CAMP.

3. Your telephone immediately hangs up. When the telephone you called becomes idle, your telephone will ring with five short ring bursts.

4. PRESS INTERCOM when you hear the ring bursts. The other telephone will start ringing.

Doe Is Busy

SOHVA

CAMP NEXT

Selecting Camp-On

• To cancel automatic ringback,

—PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL #6.

• To camp on at a station with a Do Not Disturb

condition set,

1. MAKE intercom call.

2. SELECT CAMP. A callback will occur when called station is no longer set in the Do Not Disturb mode.

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3.6.2 BUSY STATION, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER (CALL WAITING)

If the telephone you have called is busy, you can send a call waiting tone to that busy telephone and wait on the line for an answer.

• To camp on when you hear a

busy signal,

1. SELECT NEXT until CWAIT appears.

2. SELECT CWAIT.

3. WAIT on line for reply.

4. Called party can place the current call on hold or disconnect from the call to answer your call-waiting tone, or choose to ignore your call-waiting tone and continue current con versation.

BUSY

Station

Doe Is Busy

CWAIT

OVER MSG

Sending Call Waiting Signal

Your

NO ANSWER

To W ai t F or

Callback...

...Select CAMP

and Disconnect

When idle,

your call

is connected.

Busy

Station

To S end Ca ll

Waiting Tone. ..

...Select CWAIT

and Wait for Reply

Busy station

hears tone

and may respond

or ignore.

When any activity occurs at station,

your call is connected.

Idle

Station

To W ai t Fo r

Callback...

...Select CAMP

and Disconnect

Camp-On Options

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3.7 Executive Override

You can override a call in progress or a Do Not Disturb condition at another telephone if the system installer has enabled the executive override feature at your telephone. (If the feature is not enabled, an error tone sounds and screen options remains displayed.) Conditions for executive override are as follows:

Calling station has class of service that enables busy override. Calling station is switched to override voice path. When the calling party dials the override code, the called party receives six tone bursts. The called party may respond and will be heard by the calling station and outside party.

• To override an in-progress call at another telephone,

1. MAKE intercom call AND HEAR a busy signal.

2. DIAL *03 OR SELECT NEXT until you can SELECT OVER (all parties will hear several tone bursts).

3. JOIN in-progress call.

• To override a Do Not Disturb condition at another

station,

1. SELECT OVER to disable the Do Not Disturb condition at the called station.

2. SPEAK your announcement (if in voice-first mode) OR HEAR ringback tone (if in tone-first mode).

NOTE: This action disables DND condition at the other telephone until DND is reset.

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4. ADVANCED CALL HANDLING

4.1 Waiting for a Line (Queuing)

If all the lines in a line group are busy, you can place your telephone in a queue to await an idle line in the line group.

• To queue for a line group,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL line group access code (9, 81, 82, 83).

3. HEAR busy tone.

4. DIAL *8 and hang up.

5. When line group is free, your telephone sounds several short ring bursts.

6. LIFT the handset, LISTEN for dial tone AND MAKE call.

• To cancel line group queuing,

—PRESS INTERCOM, DIAL #8 AND HANG UP.

• To queue for a line that appears on your telephone,

1. PRESS HOLD.

2. PRESS line button of busy line.

3. HEAR short tone.

4. When the line is free, your telephone sounds five short ring bursts telling you that you can use your line.

5. LIFT handset to answer. If you no longer need the line, ignore the ring burst.

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4.2 Call Transferring

4.2.1 SCREENED CALL TRANSFERS

You can answer a call at your LCD speakerphone and transfer it to another telephone. If you first identify the caller to the party receiving the transfer (giving that user the opportunity to prepare for the call), you have made a screened transfer.

• To screen and transfer a call

to another telephone in the system,

1. ANSWER call.

2. PRESS TRNS/CONF (call is automatically placed on hold).

3. DIAL extension number of telephone to receive transfer, OR PRESS DSS/BLF button for that extension.

4. ANNOUNCE call when intercom party answers.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to disconnect (if in speakerphone mode), OR HANG UP.

Push T/C To CONF

SPKR To Transfer

Selecting a Transfer

The intercom party then has the call (if he or she answered the with the handset). If you announce the

screened transfer

Doe Is Busy

SOHVA

CAMP NEXT

transfer over the speaker, the intercom party’s telephone will ring with the transferred call after you hang up.

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• If the intercom party is busy, take one of the following

steps (if made available at your telephone by installer programming):

1. SELECT RECON to reconnect the call to your station,

2. SELECT SOHVA to interrupt the call and tell the intercom party that a call awaits,

3. SELECT MSG to leave a messagewaiting indication at the called sta

tion.

4. SELECT CAMP to camp-on to that station.

5. SELECT OVER to override the busy signal and join the call in progress.

If the intercom party does not answer their telephone when ringing,

take one

of the following steps:

1. SELECT CAMP to Camp-on to that station.

2. SELECT MSG to leave a messagewaiting indication at the station.

Doe Is Busy

RECON OVER MSG

More Transfer Options

Doe

RACK

No Answer from J Doe

CAMP MSG

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4.2.2 UNSCREENED CALL TRANSFERS

Unscreened call transfer allows you to transfer both line and intercom calls from your station to another station or group without first announcing them. The unscreened transferred call appears at the other station where it rings if that station is idle or automatically camps-on and awaits an answer if that station is busy.

• To transfer an unscreened call to another system

telephone,

1. ANSWER call.

2. PRESS TRNS/CONF (call is automatically placed on hold).

3. DIAL extension number of telephone to receive transfer, OR PRESS DSS/BLF button for that extension.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to disconnect (if in speakerphone mode), OR HANG UP. The transfer will ring at the called telephone.

The call automatically rings back to your station after a programmed recall period. There is no limit as to how many calls that can be camped onto another station.

• If an unscreened transfer call is not answered and

recalls to your telephone, you can take one of the following steps:

1. PRESS HOLD to place the call on hold at your telephone.

2. SELECT ANS to return to the call.

3. SELECT SEND to retry the transfer.

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4.3 Conferencing

4.3.1 CREATING A CONFERENCE CALL

When your telephone is joined together with several other telephones on the same call, the effect is called conferencing. You can make con ference calls that involve up to five parties, including you as the originating party, in any combination of outside lines and intercom parties.

NOTE: When setting up a conference call with outside lines and internal telephones, you must call the outside lines first.

• To set up a conference call that includes both outside

lines and intercom parties, outside lines alone, or intercom parties alone,

1. MAKE first call.

2. PRESS TRNS/CONF (call is placed on hold automatically).

3. MAKE next call.

4. PRESS TRNS/CONF to establish conference.

5. REPEAT the last three procedures to add up to two more parties, establish ing a 5-party conference (including yourself).

Push T/C To CONF

SPKR To Transfer

Setting a Conference

• To continue conversation on

remaining line after other outside lines have dropped

Conference

J Doe J Smith

out of conference,

—PRESS the line button of the remain-

ing party.

Active Conference

• To retrieve a line from hold

and bring that party back into the conference,

1. PRESS TRNS/CONF.

2. PRESS line button.

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3. PRESS TRNS/CONF.

4.3.2 UNSUPERVISED CONFERENCE CALLS

If you are involved in a conference call with two outside lines, you can drop out of this established conference call and leave the outside lines in the conference with each other. This is known as an “unsuper vised conference” call.

• To drop out of a conference call between you and two

outside lines (creating an unsupervised conference),

—DIAL # AND HANG UP (lines remain lighted/in use until

one or both outside parties disconnect).

• To rejoin an unsupervised conference between two

outside lines,

—PRESS one of the lighted buttons where conference is taking

place.

Managing a

Conference

Other

Station

Call

To Remove a Caller

From A Conference...

...Select Line Button and Disconnect Line

To Add a Caller

to a Conference...

... Press TRNS/CONF

To Drop Out of

A Conference...

...Dial #

Other

Station

Your

Station

Managing a Conference Call

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4.4 Call Parking

You can place a call on hold in the system so that it can be answered from any station, even though that station may not have a line appearance for the call. You accomplish this by placing the call in one of many park orbits, where the call remains until it is answered.

You park calls in predefined zones and then retrieve them by dialing an intercom feature code or by pressing a preprogrammed call park button. The system can hold up to nine calls in park zones (also referred to as orbits) where they are retrievable by all users in the system.

• To place a call on hold within the system where it can

be answered at any telephone in the system (parking a call in orbit),

1. While on the call, PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL *.

2. DIAL code for park location (orbit) (91 to 99 for orbit 1–9).

3. REMEMBER the code for later use OR MAKE IT KNOWN to those who need to know in order to retrieve the call.

• To retrieve a call that was placed on hold in the system

(parked),

1. From any station, PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL #.

2. DIAL code for orbit 1–9 (91 to 99).

4.4.1 HANDLING PARK RECALLS

If a call remains unanswered after the park recall time has ended, the system returns the call to the parking station where it rings. If that telephone includes an LCD display, a message appears on the display that shows the line number. The system installer sets the call park recall times.

• To answer a park recall,

—SELECT ANS. The call will then connect to your station.

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• To place a park recall on hold at your station,

—SELECT HOLD. After the call

remains on hold for a period time, it rings back to your telephone as a hold recall.

ecall Li

HOLD ANS

Other

Stations

Outside

Caller

To Place Call

In a Parking Orbit...

Parking Calls

our

Station

...DIAL and

✳

Orbit Number

(91-99)

Parking

Orbit

If the Parked Call

Is Not Answered

Within a Set Time,

It Recalls To Your

Station

To Retrieve a

Parked Call From

Any Other Station...

...DIAL # and

Orbit Number

(91-99)

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4.5 Call Forwarding

4.5.1 FORWARDING A CALL

You can forward the calls that normally ring at your telephone to another telephone for answering. Call forwarding provides several options that can be programmed by you locally at your station. For example, you can forward just your prime line and intercom calls or forward every call that rings at your station.

For each internal call received while call forward is enabled, the forwarding telephone sounds a ring reminder (short tone burst) to remind the users that their calls are being forwarded.

• To forward your calls,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until CFWD appears.

3. SELECT CFWD.

4. SELECT PERS for prime line and intercom calls, OR SELECT ALL for all calls.

5. SELECT SET to enable call forwarding.

6. DIAL extension number of telephone to receive your forwarded calls.

7. PRESS SPEAKER to end. (Your telephone will ring a short ring burst each time an intercom call is forwarded to remind you that this is happening).

Call Forward

PERS ALL PREV

Selecting Call Forwarding

Call Forward

SET CLEAR PREV

Call Forwarding Options

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• To cancel call forwarding,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until CFWD appears.

3. SELECT CFWD.

4. SELECT PERS for prime line and intercom calls, OR SELECT ALL for all calls.

5. SELECT CLEAR to disable call for-

Call Forwarding Active

warding.

6. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

The installer can assign a call forward button to individual telephones. If your telephone has a call forward button available at a programmable button location that includes an associated light, the light turns on when you press the button.

Your LCD display shows a call forwarding message along with the extension number or name of the station receiving the forwarded calls.

PERS

24 12:35

MON

WD to J Doe

Forward Only Your

Prime Line and Intercom Calls

Internal

Forward

Station

External Forward

Statio

Caller

Your

Station

CFOS

ALL

Forward Calls

To a Location Outside

Your System

Forward All Calls That RIng At Your

Station

Call Forwarding Options

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4.6 Call Forward Outside System (CFOS)

The Call Forward Outside System (CFOS)* feature allows you to forward incoming or transferred line calls to telephone numbers that are outside the system. The CFOS feature forwards calls over any available outbound lines or line groups. Since CFOS involves out bound calls, those calls are subject to all line access and toll restriction normally imposed on your calls.

You activate or deactivate CFOS by dialing a feature code or pressing a preprogrammed button. Once you activate CFOS, you select the outbound line or line group in any of the normal line selections methods. You also designate the forward destination by dialing the number or pressing a speed dial button. (If you do not make a line and destination choice, the system uses the most recently used selections.)

• To activate the CFOS feature,

1. PRESS INTERCOM *07.

2. PRESS the speed dial button programmed with the target number, OR SELECT a line AND DIAL number (max 16 digits).

3. PRESS HOLD for Pause OR PRESS TAP for Flash.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

NOTE: CFOS must be initiated by installer programming.

• To deactivate the CFOS feature,

—PRESS INTERCOM #07.

* Comdial has taken reasonable step in the design of all product features, including CFOS, which protect against unauthorized or fraudulent access to, or use of, a system, or which protect against unauthorized, fraudulent or unaccounted-for access to, or use of, long distance lines. However, no sys tem is entirely invulnerable or immune from unauthorized or fraudulent access or use, or unaccounted-for access or use, and therefore Comdial dis claims any and all liability, and makes no warranty, express or implied, relating to unauthorized or fraudulent access or use, or unaccounted-for access or use.

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5. NONVERBAL MESSAGING

5.1 Station-to-Station Message Delivery

When you call another telephone and receive no answer, you may leave a reminder that you have called. Do this by turning on the BLF light at the called telephone. This light indicates that you have requested a callback. The system automatically turns the light off if a successful callback is made.

If your telephone is not stored as a DSS/BLF button at the called telephone, your messaging call goes to the central message desk, if one is programmed. The central message desk (usually the system attendant) takes your message and turns on the message waiting light of the telephone that you originally called. If there is no central message desk assigned, no action will occur.

• To turn on message light,

1. MAKE intercom call AND RECEIVE no answer.

2. DIAL *7 (BLF light at called station flutters).

• To turn off message light,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #7.

3. DIAL extension number of telephone (BLF light turns off).

• If you are the recipient of a station-to-station message

reminder (a BLF light is fluttering), answer it as follows:

—PRESS DSS/BLF button associated with lighted BLF light.

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5.2 Message Waiting Light and Messaging

A special feature access code allows you to control the message waiting (MW) light at other stations in the system. message waiting light is turned on at a station, the user can automati cally call the station that turned it on. Stations that include an LCD display show the source of the message.

The installer can program one station as the central message desk and arrange it for exclusive message waiting control. message desk user (often the system attendant) can control message waiting lights and deliver messages to and from all other stations in the system.

• To turn on the message waiting light at another telephone when that station is busy,

1. HEAR the busy tone AND REMAIN

on the line.

2. SELECT NEXT.

3. SELECT MSG.

4. HANG UP handset.

When the

The central

Doe Is Busy

CWAIT

OVER MSG

• To turn on the message waiting light at another

Delivering a Message

telephone when that station rings with no answer,

1. SELECT MSG.

2. HANG UP handset.

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• To turn on the message waiting light at an idle telephone,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL *3 OR PRESS MESSAGE for

Impact SCS models.

2. DIAL extension number of station to be alerted. The message waiting

light of called station will flash.

• To turn off the message waiting light at a busy or idle station,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL #3 OR PRESS MESSAGE for

Impact SCS models.

2. DIAL extension number of station that was alerted. The message

waiting light of called station will turn off.

• To turn off the message waiting light during messagedelivering conversation,

—PRESS INTERCOM.

• To receive a message at an alert

1. OBSERVE flashing message waiting light.

2. PRESS INTERCOM AND HOLD OR PRESS MESSAGE for Impact

SCS models.

Connection to the station that left message is automatic.

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5.3 LCD Message Delivery

You can set standard and system supplied custom display messages by dialing a specific code at your telephone. When another user places a call from an LCD speakerphone, the preset LCD message from your station will flash on the caller’s LCD. When you set a message, the intercom light at your telephone flashes to indicate that the feature is active.

• To turn message on,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL *02.

3. DIAL the desired number from your message list. The default mes-

sages of “Back At” and “Call” may be used:

• For default message 1, which is “Back At,” dial time in twelve-hour

format using the # as a colon.

• For default message 2, which is “Call,” dial the telephone number of

where you will be.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end message. Intercom light flashes steadily.

• To turn off message and your intercom light,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #02.

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LCD Message List

(Write attendant supplied messages here)

Dial

Code

1 Back At

2 Call

Message

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5.4 Assist Button Message Delivery

If you have preprogrammed an ASSIST button on your telephone, you can use it to send a message to your supervisor, asking for assis tance while you are on a call. Your message shows in the supervisor’s telephone display.

• To send a message for assistance,

1. PRESS ASSIST button that you have programmed.

2. PRESS DSS/BLF of the telephone user you need help from. (This is

not necessary when the desired extension number was stored along with the ASSIST button programming.)

3. If the assisting telephone is idle, a ring burst sounds and a message

appears in its display. If it is busy, the message appears when it becomes idle.

For instructions on programming an ASSIST button, see page 66 in the Programming chapter.

5.5 Response Message Delivery

By programming a RESPONSE MESSAGE button on your LCD speakerphone, you can respond with a message to many calling situa tions. (See page 58 for instructions on programming a dedicated RESPONSE MESSAGE button).

• To send an LCD message when you call and receive busy signal or no answer,

—While still on the call, PRESS the appropriate RESPONSE MES-

SAGE button to send a message to the other telephone.

• To send an LCD message to a caller who has initiated a SOHVA or intercom call from another LCD telephone,

1. HEAR the SOHVA tone or voice announcement in your handset or

headset.

2. PRESS the appropriate RESPONSE MESSAGE button to send a pre-

selected message to the calling telephone.

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6. ROGRAMMING

6.1 DSS Numbers

Storing another station extension number at a DSS/BLF programmable location allows you to monitor that station, dial it with the press of one button, or pick up or hold calls at that station quickly and conveniently.

• To store an intercom extension number as a DSS number, proceed as follows:

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until DSS appears.

3. SELECT DSS.

4. PRESS programmable button to choose location.

5. DIAL extension number.

6. PRESS next location button AND STORE next DSS number.

7. REPEAT the previous step until all DSS numbers are stored, OR

PRESS SPEAKER to end.

CAUTION

Do not attempt to program interactive buttons;

doing so can cause the system to make features

unavailable. If you inadvertently program interac-

tive buttons, you can retrieve their functions in the following manner:

1. PRESS INTERCOM **1

2. PRESS desired interactive button to reprogram

3. DIAL 91, 92, or 93 to program buttons from left to right.

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6.2 Autodial And Speed Dial Numbers

Automatic dialing is a feature that lets you store and dial frequently called numbers using one or two buttons. You can store numbers for speed dialing at any programmable button that is not now assigned as a line button or other feature by the system administrator or installer or at the keypad numbers.

Autodial and speed dial buttons can store up to 16 digits plus an intercom or line selection. Stored digits include 0–9, S and #. The system stores a pause at any point where the HOLD button is pressed, and stores a hookflash at any point where the TAP button is pressed.

NOTE: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires that when programming emergency numbers and (or) making test calls to emergency numbers:

1. Remain on the line and briefly explain to the dispatcher the reason for the call;

2. Perform such activities in the off-peak hours, such as early morning or late evening.

Outside numbers and feature codes are commonly referred to as autodial numbers when stored at the programmable button locations; however, they are referred to as personal speed dial numbers when stored at the 10 keypad number locations.

• To store an outside number or a feature code as an autodial or speed dial number, follow the display prompts and proceed as follows:

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until ADIAL and

SDIAL is displayed.

3. SELECT ADIAL to choose autodial

programming, OR SDIAL to choose speed dial programming.

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DIALSDIAL

Choosing Mode

4. PRESS programmable button or key-

pad button to choose storage location.

5. SELECT line button to dial out on or

press INTERCOM.

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elect Location

If your system provides line groups,

Selecting a Location

dial 1, 2, 3, or 4 for line group 1, 2, 3, or 4, or dial 0 to have the system automatically choose the line for you.

6. DIAL any number up to 16 digits long (include * and # if needed).

NOTE: You may need a pause between numbers to compensate for differences in response time between your system and the host system (ask your attendant about this). To store a pause, press HOLD, then continue dialing. If your system is behind a host sys tem that needs a hookflash to access a feature, press TAP to store a hookflash, then continue dialing. Also, you may need to erase the typed digits appearing in your display to correct them. If you do, select BKSP once for each digit to be removed.

7. SELECT SAVE to store number.

8. PRESS next location button AND

STORE next number.

9. REPEAT previous step until all num-

bers are stored, OR PRESS SPEAKER to end.

918049782200 SAVE BKSP

Entering a Number

Autodial Numbers

Speed Dial Numbers

DIAL desired number

for personal speed dial

DIAL and number

✳

for system speed dial

PRESS button of

desired number

to dial directly

Speed Dial and Autodial Programmable Locations

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6.3 Feature Access Codes

In addition to the system features which may be programmed using the interactive buttons, several other features may be programmed by using their access codes. The feature codes are programmed like speed dial numbers and can occupy the same programmable buttons on your telephone.

• To store a system feature access code,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until SDIAL option

appears.

3. SELECT SDIAL or ADIAL.

4. PRESS programmable button OR dial

pad button (0–9) to choose storage location.

5. DIAL access code associated with

feature.

NOTE: Access codes are listed in Appendix C, Quick Reference Guide - DSU II Digital Expandable Systems found on page 119.

6. SELECT SAVE to store the number.

7. REPEAT previous steps until all

numbers are stored, OR SELECT EXIT.

8. PRESS SPEAKER to end

elect Location

Choose a Location

Enter Number

NOTE: The telephone system allows only one autodial number at a programmable button; however, you can store an autodial num

ber or feature code at a second level of a location where a DSS is already stored; just repeat the programming procedure.

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As you program numbers, fill in the identification strips on your telephone as well as these tables.

Autodial Numbers, Features or DSS Locations

(Programmable Buttons)

1 13

2 14

3 15

4 16

5 17

6 18

7 19

8 20

9 21

10 22

11 23

12 24

Personal Speed Dial Numbers

(Keypad Buttons)

1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9

5 0

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6.4 Feature Buttons

If you find that you are using certain miscellaneous features often, access buttons may make operation easier. To create feature buttons, use the interactive buttons to select the feature you want to store, and then store the feature on a programmable button (see the instructions on the next page).

• Account Code Button (ACCT)—allows you to enter an account code for call record purposes.

• Automatic Call-Back (Camp On) Button (CAMP)—arranges the system to ring your and another’s telephones as soon as their telephone becomes idle.

• Call Forward Button (CFWD)—provides one-button forwarding of all of your calls to another telephone.

• Call Park Orbit Button (PARK)—places a call in a system hold for pick up.

• Do Not Disturb Button (DND)—prevents other telephones from ringing your telephone.

• Page Button (PAGE)—provides one-button access to paging.

• Privacy Button (PRIV)—releases privacy for current call.

• Saved Number Redial Button (SAVE)—redials saved lastdialed number.

• Voice-Announce Block Button (VAB)—blocks voice announcements.

Programming of the feature access buttons may require several selections involving many LCD screens. If an abbreviation used is not familiar to you, consult Appendix B, Display Abbreviations - DSU II Digital Expandable Systems on page 115.

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• To create standard feature access buttons proceed as follows:

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until FEAT

appears.

3. SELECT FEAT.

4. SELECT NEXT until desired feature

choice is displayed.

5. SELECT one of the buttons below the

currently displayed selections to choose your desired selection.

6. RESPOND to any menu prompts associated with feature (such as des-

ignating a Zone for PAGE).

7. PRESS programmable button for

storage location.

8. SELECT PREV OR NEXT until

next feature choice is displayed or until EXIT is displayed.

9. REPEAT last two steps until all fea-

ture buttons are programmed, OR SELECT EXIT to end.

Program Button

DND PRIV NEXT

Selecting a Feature

Page

ZONE ALL PREV

Responding to Selections

Required for Paging

Be sure to record the function of programmed buttons on your telephone’s paper designation strip.

• To clear a feature button assignment,

—REPEAT the above procedure, BUT SELECT CLEAR before

selecting storage location button.

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6.4.1 RESPONSE MESSAGE BUTTON

Response messaging allows you to reply in a non-verbal manner to a voice announce or tone-signaled intercom call or to a subdued offhook voice announce call if the intercom caller is using an LCD speakerphone. You can press a programmable button in response to an intercom call and send a message to be shown on the display of the calling station.

• To assign a button for nonverbal response:

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS the programmable button you want to use for message access.

3. DIAL 5.

4. DIAL a message number (0 through 9).

NOTE: Programmed messages available for use are created by you, the system attendant and are listed in a table on page 93.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

6.4.2 TRANSFER BUTTON

This program lets you set up a button to be used for transferring to a third party. Most often, this feature is used for transferring calls you wish to retain to voice mail.

• To assign a “transfer to voice mail” button:

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS the programmable button you want to use.

3. DIAL 6.

4. DIAL extension number.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

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6.4.3 SUBDUED OFF-HOOK VOICE ANNOUNCE (SOHVA) BUTTON

This feature allows you to program a button at your station that you must press before delivering a SOHVA call. This SOHVA enabled button allows you, after hearing a busy signal, to decide whether to interrupt the called party in a SOHVA manner. If you decide to interrupt the call, you can press the button and complete the SOHVA call. This button, along with SOHVA groups, allows greater control of the callers that are allowed to make SOHVA calls and of the situa tions in which they are allowed to make them.

• To program a SOHVA button,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS desired programmable button.

3. DIAL 8.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end programming.

6.4.4 GROUP LISTENING BUTTON

Group listening allows others to listen to a conversation over your telephone speaker while allowing the distant party to hear only that conversation that is sent through the handset speaker.

• To program a group listening button,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS desired programmable button.

3. DIAL 98.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

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6.4.5 ASSIST BUTTON

This feature allows you to program a button to be used for sending a message to an LCD speakerphone. Once programmed, you can press the ASSIST button at anytime to sound a tone burst at the called station and present a preprogrammed message in the station display. You can send a message while on a call without alerting the distant party. This feature is useful for requesting assistance while engaging on a call. For example, a customer service representative could request assistance from a supervisor while talking to a problem caller. The supervisor, upon receiving the tone and noting the display message, could perform an executive override or service observing action to join the call or monitor it.

• To program an assist button,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS programmable button you want as assist button.

3. DIAL 7.

4. CHOOSE from one of the following

options to select the type of that will be delivered with the ASSIST button:

• DIAL * to choose system-

provided message (ASSIST plus name or extension number of station sending message)

• DIAL keypad number (1, 2, 3 etc.) to choose preprogrammed

message (see attendant or table on page 93 for list of LCD messages).

5. IF one particular station must always receive message, DIAL exten-

sion number of that station.

6. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

message

24 12:35

MON

Assist J Doe

Default Call for Assistance

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6.4.6 AUTOMATIC REDIAL BUTTON

You can automatically redial a busy number or unanswered call by activating this feature. Once you activate automatic redial, your station selects the line, automatically dials the number, and waits for a response. It will do this twice unless you deactivate the feature by pressing that button or another button or by lifting the handset.

The automatic redial button is a designated programmable button position and the user must program its location to make it active.

• To program a button on your telephone for redialing calls you make that are either busy or do not answer,

1. PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL **1.

2. PRESS programmable button.

3. DIAL #.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

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7. OTHER FEATURES

7.1 Line Groups

Some systems have telephone lines arranged into line groups which may be accessed for outside calling instead of selecting an individual line button. for certain clusters of stations for a tenant-service arrangement.

• To access a system line group,

1. Press INTERCOM.

2. Dial desired line group access code:

3. LISTEN for outside dial tone.

4. DIAL desired number.

The installer can use this feature to reserve certain lines

Line Group Access Codes

Line Group Default Code

281

382

483

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7.2 Volume Control

7.2.1 SETTING CURRENT VOLUME LEVEL

The volume control on your telephone is a multipurpose control you can use to set the volume (loudness) of the ringer, the speaker, the handset, the headset, and the group listening mode.

• There are four ringer loudness levels (plus an off position). Set these levels as follows:

—While your telephone is on-hook

and idle, PRESS the VOLUME UP OR VOLUME DOWN button once for each change in loudness you desire. The ringer sounds once for each change as an example of the current setting.

NOTE: If you set the ringer to the OFF position, your telephone sounds a short ring burst once for each call you receive at your station while the ringer is off.

Impact SCS Volume Buttons

• There are eight speaker loudness levels. Set these levels for the current call as follows:

—While on a call and in speakerphone mode, PRESS the VOLUME UP

OR VOLUME DOWN button once for each change in loudness that you desire.

• There are at least eight handset loudness levels that you can set for the current call as follows:

—While on a call and in handset mode, PRESS the VOLUME UP OR

VOLUME DOWN button once for each change in loudness that you desire.

NOTE: When the call ends, the system resets the loudness of all future calls to the programmed (default) setting. For instructions in setting your speakerphone’s default volume, see Default Volume Control section in the system specific Advanced Features chapter.

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• There are at least eight headset loudness levels that you can set for the current call as follows:

—While on a call and in headset mode,

PRESS the VOLUME UP OR UME DOWN button once for each change in loudness that you desire.

• There are eight group listening loudness levels. Set the level for the current call

VOL-

COMDIAL

DEF

Volume Down Button

BCQZ

MNOJKLGHI

TUVPRS WXY

HOLD

MUTESHIFT

TAP

Impact Volume Buttons

Volume Up Button

as follows:

—While on a call and in the group listening mode, PRESS VOLUME

UP OR VOLUME DOWN button once for each change in loudness you desire.

7.2.2 MUTING YOUR SPEAKERPHONE

By using the MUTE button, you can block transmission of your voice to the distant party. You can do this whether you are using the handset or the speaker.

• To mute your station,

—PRESS MUTE (mute function and light turn on). You can still hear

the distant party, but he or she cannot hear you.

• To speak to the distant party,

—PRESS MUTE again (mute function and light turn off).

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7.3 Default Volume Control

When you change the loudness, that change remains in effect until you change it again (referred to as default setting).

• Set the speaker, headset, handset, or group listening loudness for all future calls using the following steps:

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. CHOOSE speaker, headset, handset, or group listen mode to be

affected.

3. While in that mode, PRESS VOLUME UP OR VOLUME DOWN to

adjust loudness.

4. DIAL **5 to hold the loudness at the last setting for all future calls

(until it is changed again).

5. REPEAT this procedure in each mode until all default volume levels

have been properly set.

NOTE: You may adjust the volume of a call in any mode (over speaker, headset, handset or group listen), at any time during the call, by pressing VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN.

ends, the volume of all future calls is reset to the programmed (default) setting.

When the call

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7.4 Background Music

If the telephone system supplies background music, you can turn it on at your LCD speakerphone while on-hook and idle. The system automatically turns background music off during calls and voice announcements.

• To turn the music on,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the MUSIC

option appears.

3. SELECT MUSIC.

4. SELECT ON.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end (the

speaker light turns on when back ground music is on).

6. ADJUST music volume with the volume buttons.

• To turn the music off,

Background Music

ON OFF< PREV

Setting Background Music

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the MUSIC option appears.

3. SELECT MUSIC.

4. SELECT OFF.

5. PRESS SPEAKER to end (the speaker light turns off when back-

ground music is off).

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7.5 Do Not Disturb Condition

You can set your telephone to a do not disturb mode using the designated interactive or programmable button. The associated indicator turns on as an indication of active DND and an appropriate message appears in the display of LCD speakerphones. Under the DND con dition, an outside call forwards to another station according to the call forwarding feature. An intercom number call doesn’t ring a DND station and the system sends a fast busy signal to the caller to distin guish the DND condition from a standard busy line. No paging announcements are received on the DND station. Even though your station is in the DND mode, you can still make outgoing calls and access other features.

• To enable DND, proceed as follows:

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the DND

option appears.

3. SELECT DND.

4. SELECT ON.

5. SELECT EXIT.

6. PRESS SPEAKER to end.

Setting Do Not Disturb

• To disable the DND condition,

—REPEAT the above procedure, BUT

SELECT OFF instead of ON at step

• To set a Do Not Disturb condition at your telephone

Station with DND Set

when a call rings at your station,

1. Hear ringing and notice incoming call information in display.

2. PRESS programmed DO NOT DISTURB button. (See Feature But-

tons section on page 62 for programming instructions.)

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7.6 Account Codes

If the installer has arranged your system for account code entry, your display may prompt you to enter an account code after answering a call.

• To enter account code on an incoming call,

1. IF available, PRESS programmed ACCOUNT CODE button (the call

in progress is not interrupted).

2. IF not available, PRESS INTERCOM AND DIAL *04 (call is auto-

matically placed on hold).

3. DIAL Account Code. Your telephone automatically returns to the call

after you’ve dialed the complete account code.

If the installer has arranged your system for account code entry, your display may prompt you to enter an account code before dialing. Depending upon how the installer has programmed your system, these account codes may be “forced”(mandatory) for dialing outside numbers.

• To enter account code on an outgoing call,

1. DIAL 9 OR other line button (the display will prompt for “Account

Code” if programmed to do so).

2. PRESS INTERCOM (call is automatically placed on hold) and DIAL

*04 OR PRESS programmed ACCOUNT CODE button.

3. DIAL Account Code.

4. LISTEN for dial tone AND DIAL number you are calling.

NOTE: See Feature Buttons section on page 62 for instructions on programming a dedicated ACCOUNT CODE button.

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7.7 Paging

Your system provides an all-call or a zone page feature that you access by dialing special codes. This arrangement sounds your voice announcement through the telephone speakers or through an external paging unit.

Your system installer can interface a dedicated paging port or a spare line port with an external paging amplifier. You can then access the paging amplifier and select specific zones for paging, if applicable, by dialing codes on your station. The dedicated paging port does not support any “talk-back’ capability even if such a feature is provided by the external equipment. Your system installer can also arrange a line port for external paging interface. The system precedes an announcement through the paging port with an alerting tone and installers can choose between an intercom tone or a DTMF signaling tone for this paging alert tone. They usually choose the intercom tone for a soft alert and choose the DTMF tone for a loud alert.

• If your system provides an external paging unit,

1. LIFT handset.

2. PRESS INTERCOM AND CHOOSE one of the following options:

• DIAL extension number of station equipped and enabled for paging

(see programming section of this user’s guide), or

• PRESS paging button assigned by the installer, or

• DIAL 89 for special paging port.

3. MAKE announcement.

4. HANG UP to end.

All-call paging allows you to receive announcements through the station speaker at once. The system can also send all-call paging to the paging port where it applies it to the input of an external paging amplifier. Origination of announcements must be via your station handset. The system installer enables your station’s ability to receive and originate all-call paging at a station.

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Zone paging allows groups of stations to receive announcements through the station speakers. Your system installer can enable zone paging in up to four different zones. Zone paging can also be received at the paging port where it can be connected to the input of an external paging amplifier. Installer’s control the ability of each station to originate and/or receive a page and the arrangement of the paging into different zones.

• If your system provides all-call or zone paging,

1. LIFT handset.

2. PRESS INTERCOM.

3. DIAL 87 for all-call, OR DIAL 84, 85, or 86 for zone 1, 2, or 3.

4. MAKE announcement.

5. STAY on line if awaiting a reply (known as Meet-Me page), OR

HANG UP to end.

You can dial a special code number in response to an all-call or zone page and be connected to the paging party in a private conversation. All-call or zone paging is provided to the stations through the station class of service programming.

• To make a reply to a Meet-Me page,

1. LIFT handset of nearest telephone.

2. PRESS INTERCOM.

3. DIAL 88.

4. Meet paging party on line.

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7.8 Tracker Paging System

When installed with your system, the Tracker Paging System option allows you to send call back and parked call messages to Tracker pagers assigned to station extension numbers. Along with the parked call message, the system parks the call in orbit for retrieval by the paged party. The type of message that the system delivers (either alphanumeric or numeric-only) is dependent upon the Tracker pager model in use at the station.

When outside callers call into a system that has both a Tracker Paging option and a voice mail option installed, the system gives these callers the option of either leaving a message or tracking the person that they are calling.

If you have a Tracker pager assigned to your personal intercom number, you can receive messages that someone else sends you. The system automatically installs the Tracker pager for your use; however, you can disable it when you do not wish to receive paged messages and when you leave at the end of your day. Of course, if you do disable your Tracker pager at the end of your day, be sure to enable it at the beginning of your next day.

• To enable a Tracker Pager at your station,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL *06.

• To disable a Tracker Pager at your station,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #06.

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• To send a call back message to someone’s Tracker Pager after receiving a ring no answer,

1. MAKE an intercom call to someone and receive no answer.

2. PRESS programmed TRACK button OR DIAL #01.

3. After your station returns to idle* hang up handset or press SPEAKER

to end. The Tracker Pager system will transmit your station extension number to called party’s Tracker Pager display. (Some models will also display your station name if the system is programmed to include station names.)

* If the Tracker paging system does not accept your actions, an error tone sounds at your telephone.

• To send a call back message to someone’s Tracker Pager without first calling them,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #01.

3. DIAL station extension number.

4. HANG UP handset OR PRESS SPEAKER to end. The Tracker Pager

system will transmit your station extension number to the caller’s Tracker Pager display. (Some models will also display your station name if the system is programmed to include station names.)

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• To park a call and have Tracker Pager tell someone to retrieve the call,

1. ANSWER call AND PRESS TRNS/CONF.

2. DIAL Extension.

3. PRESS programmed TRACK button OR DIAL #01.

4. Your display shows park orbit (91 through 99) and then returns to

idle*.

5. Hang up handset or press SPEAKER to end. The Tracker Pager sys-

tem will transmit orbit dialing code and caller ID information, if available, to called party’s Tracker Pager display. (Alphanumeric models display #91 through #99 while numeric-only models display -91 through -99.)

* If the Tracker paging system does not accept your actions, an error tone will sound at your telephone.

• To respond when your Tracker Pager displays park orbit dialing code,

1. From any system station, PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #.

3. DIAL displayed orbit code (91 to 99).

4. RETRIEVE call.

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7.9 Auxiliary Jack

NOTE: Some telephones have an auxiliary jack. All other model telephones use the handset jack to plug in a headset.

The auxiliary jack provides an interface for a headset, a tape recorder, an external ringer or an external pager. Any one of these auxiliary devices may be connected by you or by your system installer. must program one of the programmable buttons to serve as an enable/ disable button for each auxiliary device that is or will be connected to your telephone.

The following modes are programmable with the auxiliary jack:

• The headset mode allows you to operate your telephone with a headset instead of as a speakerphone. Lifting the handset will turn off the headset and activate the handset.

NOTE: The recorder, external ringer, or pager requires external power.

Yo u

• The recorder mode allows you to send your voice and that of the distant party to a tape recording machine.

• The ringer mode allows an external speaker to sound the ringing of your telephone.

• The pager mode allows an external paging device to sound all voice announcements (all-call, zone paging, voice-announced intercom calls) sent to your telephone.

Auxiliary Jack Location

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• Program the enable/disable buttons (at any blank programmable button location) as follows:

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL **1.

3. PRESS programmable button.

4. DIAL a feature code

94 = Headset Button,

95 = External Ringer Button,

96 = Tape Recorder Button,

97 = External Pager Button.

5. PRESS TRNS/CONF.

6. REPEATEDLY PRESS programmable button AND DIAL separate

codes until all four buttons are programmed, OR PRESS SPEAKER to end.

• To use a feature button,

1. PRESS desired button to enable mode. The display denotes the fea-

ture and shows it to be enabled.

2. To disable any active mode, press the corresponding feature button to

alternate off.

CAUTION

With the exception of a headset microphone,

do not connect the audio output of any external

device to the auxiliary jack. Also, do not connect the tip

and ring leads of a telephone line to the auxiliary jack. Do not connect

any devices to the auxiliary jack other than those mentioned above

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7.10 Automatic Set Relocation

If your installer has equipped your system with automatic set relocation, when you move your telephone to a new location, the system gives you a choice (through a display prompt) as to whether you want to keep your previous programming or use the programming in the new location.

• To maintain the extension number and programming features from the old location,

1. CONNECT the telephone line cord to the new jack.

2. OBSERVE the flashing HOLD light AND PRESS HOLD while the

light is still flashing (your telephone immediately assumed the fea tures from the previous location).

NOTE: If you do not select a button after installing the telephone,

the system automatically defaults to the programming from the previous location.

• To assume the extension number and programming features from the new location,

1. CONNECT the telephone line cord to the new jack.

2. OBSERVE the flashing HOLD light AND DIAL # while the light is

still flashing (your telephone immediately assumes the features from the new location).

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7.11 Service Observing

If your LCD speakerphone provides the installer–programmed service observing feature, you can use it to monitor a conversation or activity at another telephone in an undetected manner. You can use this feature while you are in the speakerphone mode or off-hook.

• To monitor another station at any time,

1. PRESS INTERCOM.

2. DIAL #03.

3. DIAL extension number of telephone to be monitored.

4. PRESS SPEAKER to end monitoring.

5. Your system installer may also program a dedicated SERVICE

OBSERVE button that may be used in place of the feature access code.

7.12 Switching The Dialing Mode Between Pulse And Tone

If the telephone service in your locality is pulse (rotary dialing), the installer arranges your telephone to dial in this manner. If you need to send tones during a dialing sequence (for example, to send bank-bytelephone tones), you can convert to tone dialing mode while dialing. The system will switch back to pulse dialing when you end your call.

You can store a ‘#’ as part of a speed dial number to cause an automatic switch from pulse to tone where needed in a number sequence.

• To convert to tone dialing at any time during dialing or while on an active call,

—DIAL #.

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7.13 Toll Restriction Override

You can override one station’s toll restriction assignment by dialing a programmed four-digit TRO code at another station prior to dialing your desired number. When you do this, the system replaces the toll restriction requirements of the station that you are using with those that match your home station.

After entering a TRO code at another station, you will get your own prime line or idle line preference and its accompanying toll restriction assignment. You then have 15 seconds to dial an outgoing call. Once you hang up from a call, you have 15 seconds to make another call without re-entering your TRO code. place it on hold and pick it up at another station, the call belongs to the new station.

• To use TRO at a station,

1. PRESS INTERCOM,

2. DIAL **6.

3. DIAL your station extension number.

4. DIAL your TRO code number (as is shown).

5. Within 15 second timeout period, DIAL desired outgoing line num-

ber.

6. HANG UP handset OR PRESS SPEAKER to end call. You will have

15 seconds in which you can make another call without re-entering your TRO code.

If you transfer a TRO call or

• To clear the TRO code,

1. PRESS INTERCOM,

2. DIAL **6.

3. PRESS SPEAKER.

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7.14 Dial By Name

The dial by name feature allows you to use the display and interactive buttons of your LCD speakerphone to search through a prepro grammed index of intercom or system speed dial names, locate a desired name, and automatically call the located name.

• To use dial by name,

1. SELECT OPTIONS to enter the dial

by name menu.

2. From the dial by name menu,

SELECT INT button for intercom calling, OR SELECT EXT for sys tem speed dial calling.

3. DIAL three digits for the first three

letters of the name you want to locate (for example, dial 266 for Comdial).

4. The display shows the first existing

name match to the dialed digits or shows a No Match message if the system can not find a match. IF the display says No Match, SELECT PREV OR ENTER three new digits to select a new name.

5. SELECT NEXT to display the subse-

quent names in the list until you reach the name you need, OR SELECT ALL to view the name list from the beginning.

6. SELECT DIAL to call the displayed

name.

Dial by Name

INT EXT NEXT

Selecting Option

Enter Digits

ALL EXIT

Entering Digits

No Match

ALL BACK

Searching for a Match

RETURN

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7.15 Programmed Button Display

7.15.1 BUTTON FUNCTIONS DISPLAY (BUTTON QUERY)

You can cause the display to identify the function of each button on your telephone.

• To button query your telephone,

1. SELECT OPTIONS.

2. SELECT NEXT until the QUERY option appears.

3. SELECT QUERY.

4. PRESS the button in question.

5. READ the displayed information (display will hold for few seconds before the telephone returns to idle).

Button Query

Press Any Button

Button Query

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7.16 Data Interface Unit

The Data Interface Unit, or DIU, is an optional external device that may be part of your system installation. It provides connections for both your telephone and an IST device such as a standard single-line telephone, a FAX machine, a data modem, a cordless telephone, or an answering machine.

If the installer has arranged your station in this manner, you can switch between your telephone and the IST device by pressing the DATA button that the installer has programmed on your telephone. The light associated with the DATA button provides status indications for your reference.

DATA Light Telep hone St a tus

OFF Your telephone is selected for operation

On Green Your IST device is selected but is idle

On Red Your IST device is selected and is busy

Flashing Red Your IST device is ringing

• To select your telephone if the DATA light is on or is

flashing,

—Press the DATA button. If a call is in progress on the IST device, it

transfers to your telephone if you have your telephone handset lifted or have your telephone in speakerphone mode. If you do not, the call drops.

• To select the IST device if the DATA light is off,

—Press the DATA button. If a call is in progress on your telephone, it

transfers to the IST device if the device is off-hook; otherwise, the call drops. Your telephone still provides visual messages and indica tions even though its voice path is routed to the IST device.

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7.17 IMIST Module

Impact SCS 8324F-**, 8324S-**, and 8312S-** speakerphones equipped with the optional IMIST module can support an IST device (modem, FAX machine, industry-standard telephone, etc.) in addition to the LCD speakerphone. Depending on system programming, the IST device may be used to make outgoing calls and receive incoming calls.

Note: Impact SCS phone model 8324SJ Rev. D and later, and model 8312SJ Rev. D and later, will not support the IMIST mod ule.

The IMIST module does not have its own extension number and does not function simultaneously with the speakerphone.

NOTE: The IMIST module does not provide voltage to light a message waiting light. Message waiting lights on devices plugged into the IMIST module will not function.

Switch between your telephone and the IST device by pressing the DATA button that the installer has programmed on your telephone. The light associated with the DATA button provides status indications for your reference.

DATA Light Tele pho ne Sta tus

OFF Your telephone is selected for operation

On Green Your IST device is selected but is idle

On Red Your IST device is selected and is busy

Flashing Red Your IST device is ringing

IMIST Module

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7.18 DSS/BLF Console Operation

The IB64X, IB48X, and IB24X DSS/BLF consoles have additional buttons and status lights that extend the memory button capability of an adjacent companion telephone. The buttons can be programmed for automatic dialing (speed dial) or direct station selection (DSS) with busy lamp field (BLF) using the instructions provided previ ously in this guide.

When the installer assigns a DSS/BLF console to a station port, the system recognizes it as such and automatically designates the console buttons as DSS buttons so that you can store numbers at the buttons as you need them.

The DSS/BLF console will not operate in a bridged mode.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

1. GETTING STARTED

1.1 Setting Up Your Speakerphone

1.1.1 POSITIONING YOUR SPEAKERPHONE

1.1.2 SETTING DISPLAY CONTRAST

1.1.3 SETTING A PERSONAL RINGING TONE

1.1.4 SETTING VOLUME LEVELS

1.1.5 ANSWERING AND MAKING CALLS

1.2 Understanding the Basic Functions

1.3 Your Speakerphone’s Buttons

1.4 Your Speakerphone’s Display Lights

1.5 Understanding the Rings Patterns

2. ANSWERING CALLS

2.1 Answering Outside Calls

2.2 Answering Intercom Calls

2.3 Monitored Stations

2.4 Holding Calls

2.4.1 EXCLUSIVE HOLD

2.4.2 HOLD RECALLS

2.4.3 DIRECTED HOLD

2.5 Night Transferred Calls - Line Answer From Any Station

2.6 Caller ID (Automatic Number Identification)

2.7 Call Pickup

2.7.1 GROUP CALL PICKUP

2.7.2 DIRECTED CALL PICKUP

2.8 Receiving Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA)

2.8.1 HANDLING AN INCOMING SOHVA

2.8.2 BLOCKING A SOHVA

2.9 Voice Announce Blocking

3. MAKING CALLS

3.1 Making Outside Calls

3.2 Making Intercom Calls

3.3 Automatic Dialing

3.4 Redialing

3.4.1 REDIAL - LAST-DIALED NUMBER

3.4.2 AUTOMATIC REDIAL

3.4.3 REDIAL PROGRAMMING (STORING NUMBERS)

3.5 Sending Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcements (SOHVA)

3.6 Camping On and Queuing

3.6.2 BUSY STATION, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER (CALL WAITING)

3.7 Executive Override

4. ADVANCED CALL HANDLING

4.1 Waiting for a Line (Queuing)

4.2 Call Transferring

4.2.1 SCREENED CALL TRANSFERS

4.2.2 UNSCREENED CALL TRANSFERS

4.3 Conferencing

4.3.1 CREATING A CONFERENCE CALL

4.3.2 UNSUPERVISED CONFERENCE CALLS

4.4 Call Parking

4.4.1 HANDLING PARK RECALLS

4.5 Call Forwarding

4.5.1 FORWARDING A CALL

4.6 Call Forward Outside System (CFOS)

5. NONVERBAL MESSAGING

5.1 Station-to-Station Message Delivery

5.2 Message Waiting Light and Messaging

5.3 LCD Message Delivery

5.4 Assist Button Message Delivery

5.5 Response Message Delivery

6. ROGRAMMING

6.1 DSS Numbers

6.2 Autodial And Speed Dial Numbers

6.3 Feature Access Codes

6.4 Feature Buttons

6.4.1 RESPONSE MESSAGE BUTTON

6.4.2 TRANSFER BUTTON

6.4.3 SUBDUED OFF-HOOK VOICE ANNOUNCE (SOHVA) BUTTON

6.4.4 GROUP LISTENING BUTTON

6.4.5 ASSIST BUTTON

6.4.6 AUTOMATIC REDIAL BUTTON

7. OTHER FEATURES

7.1 Line Groups

7.2 Volume Control

7.2.1 SETTING CURRENT VOLUME LEVEL

7.2.2 MUTING YOUR SPEAKERPHONE

7.3 Default Volume Control