214 CHAPTER 8: CONFIGURING GROUPS
Page group members must be local users. A group can include all users at
a site or a subset of users.
A telephone can belong to multiple page groups, however a telephone
can only receive one page at a time.
When you create a page group, you assign phone extensions as members
of the group. You also assign an extension to the page group. When a
group member dials the group page extension, speakers are activated on
the telephones that are members of the group. As the member speaks
into the handset, the member’s voice is broadcast on the activated
speakers. Note that a user does not need to be a member of a page
group to send a page to that group.
A page will not be broadcast on a phone if any of the following
conditions are true:
■The phone is not a member of the target page group.
■The phone is not logged in.
■The phone is processing a call (that is, the call is ringing, connected, or
on hold).
■The phone has redirect features enabled (Do Not Disturb, Call
Forwarding, or Forward to Voicemail).
A page is subject to the following restrictions:
■Users cannot park, transfer, hold, conference, or pick up a page.
■Users cannot camp on a page group extension.
■A page cannot be bridged (see Mapping Bridged Extensions for
information about bridging).
A page sender or receiver can drop the page by either using the speaker
button to disconnect the page, by picking up and replacing the receiver,
or by pressing the Release button.
Page Group configuration is subject to the following limits:
■Each site can can support a maximum of 100 groups.
■Each group can support a maximum of 300 members.
■An extension can a member of a maximum of 100 groups.