Joining Calls
Description
This feature is available only on system phones.
Joining is adding yourself to an outside call in progress, the same way you do
on a home telephone by picking up an extension. (This is different from
conferencing, in which the originator “pulls you into” the call.) Only one other
system extension can join a call on an outside line (for a total of one outside and
two inside parties).
Related Features
■Automatic Extension Privacy (#304) prevents other extensions from
joining calls on a specific extension. This is especially useful for answering
machines, fax machines, modems, and credit card scanners, because
trying to join a call on one of these devices could interfere with its operation.
■
Any user with a PARTNER-18D or PARTNER-18 phone can use
Privacy
to
prevent other extensions from joining a call at their extension.
Considerations
■You cannot join an intercom call or a conference call.
■
You cannot put a joined call on hold.

How to Join a Call

System Phone
A steady red light at a line button indicates that a call is in progress. Press the
line button on which the call is being conducted and lift the handset or press
[
Spkr
].
The red and green lights alternately flash. You are now joined with the call.
You can tell when someone has joined your call when the lights next to the line
button change to alternately flashing red and green.
5-20 Joining Calls