Advanced Call Handling

Picking Up a Redirected Call on Your Phone

Call PickUp allows you to answer a call that is ringing on a coworker’s phone by redirecting the call to your phone. You might use Call PickUp if you share call-handling with coworkers.

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

 

Answer a call that is ringing on

1.

Do one of the following:

another extension within your call

 

If the PickUp softkey or button is available, press it.

pickup group

 

 

If the PickUp softkey or button is not available, go

 

 

 

 

off-hook to display the PickUp softkey, then press it.

 

 

If your phone supports auto-pickup, you are now

 

 

connected to the call.

 

2.

If the call rings, press Answer to connect to the call.

 

 

 

Answer a call that is ringing on

1.

Do one of the following:

another extension outside of your

 

If the GPickUp softkey or Group PickUp button is

group

 

 

available, press it.

 

 

 

 

If the GPickUp softkey or Group PickUp button is not

 

 

available, go off-hook to display GPickUp, then press

 

 

it.

 

2.

Enter the group pickup number.

 

 

If your phone supports auto-pickup, you are now

 

 

connected to the call.

 

3.

If the call rings, press Answer to connect to the call.

 

 

 

Answer a call that is ringing on

1.

Do one of the following:

another extension in your group or

 

If the OPickUp softkey or Other PickUp button is

in an associated group

 

 

available, press it.

 

 

 

 

If the OPickUp softkey or Other PickUp button is not

 

 

available, go off-hook to display OPickUp, then press

 

 

it.

 

 

If your phone supports auto-pickup, you are now

 

 

connected to the call.

 

2.

If the call rings, press Answer to connect to the call.

 

 

 

Tips

Depending on how your phone is configured, you might receive an audio and/or visual alert about a call to your pickup group.

Pressing PickUp, GPickUp, or Group PickUp or connects you to the call that has been ringing for the longest time.

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Cisco Systems 7941G/7941G-GE Picking Up a Redirected Call on Your Phone, If the OPickUp softkey or Other PickUp button is

7961G/7961G-GE, 7941G/7941G-GE specifications

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