Administration: Routing Calls to Voicemail

4.4.3 Using Short Codes to Access Voicemail

The short code Voicemail Collect feature can be used to route callers to voicemail. The voicemail service they receive is set by the telephone number field which should be enclosed in quote marks. For more information, see Voicemail Telephone Numbers 145 .

The examples use *80 but any available short code could be used.

Example 1: Access to the Mailbox Main

The following short code will access the mailbox for Main. The ? indicates that it is to collect messages. A # is used to indicate leave a message in the mailbox.

Field

Contains...

 

 

Code

*80

 

 

Feature

Voicemail Collect

 

 

Telephone Number

"?Main"

 

 

Line Group Id

0

 

 

Locale

[Leave blank]

 

 

Force Account Code

[Leave blank]

 

 

Example 2: Access a Voicemail Pro Module

If a Voicemail Pro module has been created and called TimeCheck, the following short code could be used to access it.

Field

Contains...

 

 

Code

*80

 

 

Feature

Voicemail Collect

 

 

Telephone Number

"TimeCheck"

 

 

Line Group Id

0

 

 

Locale

[Leave blank]

 

 

Force Account Code

[Leave blank]

 

 

The Voicemail Node short code feature can also be used to access short code start points. It uses the short code start point name as the telephone number without surrounding brackets.

Voicemail Pro

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Avaya 15-601063 manual Using Short Codes to Access Voicemail, Example 1 Access to the Mailbox Main