46CHAPTER 5: VCX V7000 ATTENDANT CONSOLES — MODEL 3105 AND COMPLEMENT ATTENDANT

VCX Attendant

The VCX 3105 Attendant Console has 50 Access buttons and 4

Console

preprogrammed Feature buttons. In effect, the Attendant Console is an

 

extension of the VCX Business Telephone or VCX Basic Telephone with

 

which it is associated.

 

Figure 8 illustrates the buttons and controls on the VCX 3105 Attendant

 

Console.

Access Buttons

The 50 Access buttons on an VCX 3105 Attendant Console can each

 

have two sets of assignments: 1 through 50, and 51 through 100. To

 

toggle between the two sets of assignments, press the Shift button.

 

Your administrator can assign features to each Access button. Possible

 

features include:

 

Status of internal telephone extensions (busy, available)

In the current release, when you assign a phone extension to an Attendant Console button, the button assignment does not become effective until either the Attendant Console is rebooted or the phone registration interval elapses. The registration interval is one hour.

Status of external telephone lines

Speed dials for:

User extensions

Pager numbers

Cellular telephone numbers

Feature Buttons The four Feature buttons can be programmed for the most common features needed by a receptionist: Call Transfer, Call Hold, Conference, Call Park. The Shift button does not affect the operation of the Feature buttons. Your administrator configures the feature assigned to a particular Feature button using the VCX Admin web interface. The feature-to-button mappings described in the list following Figure 8 may not correspond to your configuration.

Figure 8 and the text that follows it describe the features on the VCX 3105 Attendant Console.

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V7000 specifications

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