The
MERLIN
system has preassigned paging groups, each consisting of three voice
terminals. Voice terminals 11, 12, and 13 constitute the first group, 14, 15, and 16 the
second group, etc. You need not administer group paging if the preassigned groups
are satisfactory.
Your business can be divided into ten paging groups. The groups can overlap. That is,
a given phone can be in more than one group if you choose to administer it that way.
Here’s how to assign a phone to a group:
• Enter administration mode if you haven’t already done so (see page 17).
• Dial
✱
70 to
✱
79 depending on which of the ten groups you want to administer. A
green light will come on next to the Intercom Auto Dial button for any phones
already assigned to the paging group.
• Touch the Intercom Auto Dial button for the telephones to be removed from the
group (green light goes out).
• Touch the Intercom Auto Dial button for the phone(s) you want to assign to the
paging group (the maximum is three phones per group) (green light comes on). If
the page group already has 3 phones in it, an attempt to add a fourth will be
denied. The green light next to the button will not come on.
• Touch
Administer (Send Message)
when finished with that group.
• Administer a different group by entering
✱
70 to
✱
79 (above).
• If you’re finished with administration, leave administration mode by sliding the
T/P switch back to center position at the administrator/attendant voice terminal
and by setting the Admin/Normal switch back to Normal at the control unit.
Otherwise continue administration procedures.
If someone in the
MERLIN
system transfers a call and it is not answered, it will return
to the sender with a distinctive ring. You, as the administrator, can determine how
many rings must elapse before a call returns to its sender; the preset initial setting is
for three rings. You can program from one to nine rings. Here’s how to do it:
• Enter administration mode if you haven’t already done so (page 17).
• Dial
✱
21 to
✱
29, where
✱
21 gives you one ring and
✱
29 gives you nine rings. You
can turn off Transfer Return by dialing
✱
20.
If you’re finished with administration, leave administration mode by sliding the
T/P switch back to center position at the administrator/attendant voice terminal
and by setting the Admin/Normal switch back to Normal at the control unit.
Otherwise continue administration procedures.
BUTTON-FREE LINE OPERATION
(For 5-Button Voice Terminals:
Model 820 With More Than Four Lines)
If you have 5-button voice terminals in your MERLIN system, you may want to
consider an administration option called button-free line operation. This procedure
can be applied on larger voice terminals, but it is generally not needed because of the
greater number of buttons for both lines and features. Button-free line operation
makes lines "invisible". Lines that have been previously administered to a voice
terminal are no longer represented on buttons. The buttons are used for features
instead.
Button-free line operation is ideal for people who need access to all the lines in the
system and who don’t do very much call handling—that is, are not frequently dealing
with two calls at the same time. It is not suitable when a person needs access to more
than one type of line. So, if a person uses both regular lines and WATS lines, do not
assign the button-free operation.
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