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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 non-bridged calls. For example, bridged calls can be

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.

Calls to a bridged extension that are not answered always follow the call coverage point configured for the primary phone, or, if call forwarding is enabled, the appropriate call forward setting for the primary phone.

If all the bridge lines are in use, a call to the primary extension rings on a primary phone SA line and does not ring on the secondary phone. If all bridge lines and SA lines are in use on the primary, a call is forwarded to the Call Forward - Busy destination configured for the primary phone.

Topics in this section describe how bridged calls are handled when certain VCX features are invoked by the primary phone user, the secondary phone user, or both users.

Do Not Disturb and Bridged Line Calls

If the primary phone enables Do Not Disturb and a call rings on a secondary phone, there is no call indication on the primary phone—the phone does not ring and the BSA light does not blink. Once the call is answered or put on hold, the primary phone’s BSA light does indicate call status.

If the primary phone enables Do Not Disturb, a call goes directly to the primary phone’s call coverage point if:

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