Avaya 700217243 manual Programming Telephone Features, Automatic Line Selection

5 Programming Telephone Features

Overview

As the System Administrator, you should program telephones at individual extensions with certain features. There are two types of telephone programming:

•Centralized Telephone Programming–programming individual telephones from extension 10 or 11.

•Extension Programming–programming an individual system telephone from the extension to which it is connected.

Use Centralized Telephone Programming to program the Required Telephone Programming features presented in this chapter. The required features include:

•Automatic Line Selection

•Extension Name Display

•Line Ringing

Automatic Line Selection

This feature determines the line or pool a user is connected to after lifting the handset or turning on the speaker to make a call. The system looks for lines or pools in the order specified by Automatic Line Selection and selects the first available line or pool.

At key extensions, with Automatic Line Selection at its factory setting, the system first searches to find an idle outside line in numerical order (starting with the lowest line number). If all outside lines are busy, the system searches for an idle

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