Telephone Programming Options

System telephones are ready to use when they are installed, but they can be customized to meet the needs of your business and individual users. This customization is accomplished through Telephone Programming.

Automatic Line Selection

When a user lifts the telephone’s handset or presses [ Spkr ], the system chooses an idle line automatically. Automatic Line Selection determines the order in which the system looks for an idle line. You can set the system to look for lines in any desired order. For standard phones or for any phone used mainly to call other extensions, select an inside (intercom) line first.

Extension Name Display

With Extension Name Display, users can assign a name (up to 12 characters long) to their extension. Then, when those users make an intercom call, group call, or transfer a call, their name and extension number appears on the display phone receiving the call. Similarly, users receiving a transfer return call see the name and extension number of the person assigned to the extension that did not answer the transferred call.

Line Ringing

Line Ringing defines when each outside line rings at a phone. For each line at an extension, you can specify Immediate Ring, Delayed Ring (phone rings after a 20-second delay), or No Ring.

Personal Speed Dialing

Personal Speed Dial numbers are outside phone numbers that a user dials by pressing [ Feature ] (or [ # ] on a standard phone) plus a two-digit code. Unlike System Speed Dial numbers, which are available to all users in the system, Personal Speed Dial numbers are available only at the extension for which they are programmed. Users can store up to 20 Personal Speed Dial numbers.

Programming Telephone Buttons

Telephone buttons without lines assigned to them can be programmed for system features such as Exclusive Hold or Conference Drop or for telephone numbers, so you can use the feature or dial the phone number with one touch. Once programmed, these buttons are called Auto Dial buttons, because simply pressing the button automatically dials the feature code or the telephone number.

A user who has a system phone with programmable buttons should consider programming them with a combination of frequently used features and outside and intercom telephone numbers.

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AT&T 518-455-317 manual Telephone Programming Options