Telephone Operations
these older phones, learn how to depress and release the
Flash 
key1.
Note Many telephones are now being produced that properly queue other keypad keys after the flash key, so that it can be depressed along with the other keys at any rate. In particular, the flash key on the Nortel 9316 (the flash key is called Link on the Nortel phone) and the Panasonic
In this manual, we will designate a 
Flash 
.
Beeps and rings
You will hear one short beep in your conversation if you are on the phone and you leave another call on hold for too long2. You can use the Swap Hold sequence 
Flash 
* 
(i.e., performing a 
* 
button on your telephone) to toggle between your existing call and the call on hold.
Note | If you are not on the phone and you leave a call on hold too long, you will receive a short ring on your | |
| phone, but when you pick up the phone, no one will be there. You can retrieve this call from hold using | |
| the Retrieve Call From Hold sequence * 1 . |
|
Two short beeps in your conversation indicates that you have a call waiting. You can put the current call on hold and pick up the new call using the Pick up Waiting Call sequence 
Flash 
3 
. You can then use the Swap Hold sequence 
Flash 
* 
to toggle between the two. Note that if you are done with your current call, you can still use 
Flash 
3 
to pick up the incoming call. The 
Flash 
3 
will disappear when the person you were talking to hangs up.
1.If you program a sequence into a phone with 
Flash 
is programmed as one of the keys in the pro- grammed sequence, the phone will automatically wait until the end of its own flash time before issuing the other keys in the sequence. Therefore, this 3/4 second blanking time is not a problem for flash sequences programmed into a speed- dialer.
2.This delay time is usually 45 seconds. However, the reminder ring delay time can be changed by your system administra- tor, and might be set differently for your system.
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