88CHAPTER 6: USING THE VCX USER INTERFACE
3For the bridged line settings to take effect, the phone must retrieve the new settings from the VCX server. By default, phones check the VCX server for new information every 60 minutes (the phone registration interval). To retrieve bridged line settings, you can use one of the following options:
■Wait for the phone registration interval to expire (60 minutes or less, depending on when the last registration occurred).
■Log off and then log on to the phone.
In this example, an incoming call to extension 1000 will also ring on extension 1001.
The primary phone user can make calls on a bridged line. The secondary phone user can answer calls that are made to the primary phone’s extension. Both users can use VCX features to manage bridged calls. For example, bridged calls can be transferred, put on hold, or forwarded to voice mail. However, because multiple phones are involved, you should note the considerations discussed in Bridged Line Interaction with Other Features.
Both primary and secondary users can be logged in to multiple phones. For example, an administrative assistant (secondary user) can be logged in to four phones and monitor a manager from any phone as long as all the secondary phones are configured with the same extension. Or, a manager may be logged in to multiple phones and monitored by an assistant logged in to one or more phones. In any case, the total number of logged in primary and secondary phones cannot exceed five.
For the current release, the primary and secondary phone (or phones) must be located on the same site.
Your administrator can also set up bridged extensions. In this case, fields on your Bridge Permissions and the Button Mappings tabbed pages have preassigned values.
Bridged Line Calls to a bridged extension can be managed by a primary user or a Interaction with secondary user, like
Other Features parked, put on hold, transferred, or conferenced.
A call to a bridged extension can be affected by call coverage points, call forwarding settings, and Do Not Disturb settings on the primary and secondary phones.