Preparing to Assign Lines to Buttons and Set Up Access to Line Pools
You can assign individual lines and line pools to particular buttons on voice terminals and remove them from buttons whenever necessary. You can also assign individual voice terminals Dial Access to selected line pools. Before you begin assigning lines and line pools to buttons on voice terminals or assigning voice terminals Dial Ac- cess to Line Pools, please read the following information.
NOTE: If you plan to use Automatic Route Selection, you must set your system for Dial Access to Line Pools. The procedures for setting up Dial Access to Line Pools
are presented on page 38.
●Always assign lines and line pools to one voice terminal at a time.
Make sure you have a completed Voice Terminal Configuration Form for each voice terminal.
The Initial Feature Assignments diagrams on pages 85 and 86 illustrate the order
●in which lines are assigned to buttons on attendant consoles when your system is first set up. The system automatically assigns lines to the attendant console in the order in which the lines are plugged into the control unit. This is the “default” arrangement, what your system does unless you specify something different. You can change the order in which lines appear on the console by following the procedure given below.
●Each line in your system must appear on a separate button at attendant con- soles. If you assign a line pool to an attendant console, your system automatically assigns all the lines to buttons in the order in which they appear in the line pool. Be aware that you may change the positions of your lines on the attendant con- sole when you assign line pools.
●For example, say that you setup two pooils. Pool 9 contains lines 1,3, and 4 and Pool 890 contains lines 2, 5, and 6. Lines 1 through 6 initially appear on your attendant console in numerical order. If you assign Pool 9, then Pool 890 to the attendant console, however, the lines will appear in this order: 1, 3, 4, 2, 5, 6. If you change your line order by assigning pooled lines to attendant consoles, be sure to relabel your buttons to show the correct line numbers. If you remove a pool from the attendant console, remember that you remove all the lines in that pool.
●Remember that voice terminals cannot be administered and used at the same time. You cannot assign lines and line pools to a voice terminal unless it is idle, and the user cannot place or receive calls while you are assigning lines. The voice terminal beeps softly while you are administering it as a reminder that it cannot be used.
●When you assign a line to a voice terminal, the system automatically assigns the line to the first button that doesn’t already have a line assigned to it, in the order illustrated in the diagram on the following page. You can assign lines to voice terminals in a different pattern by changing the order in which you touch the line buttons. The procedures that follow show how to assign lines to but- tons on voice terminals in whatever order you prefer.
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