Chapter 5 Configuring Features, Templates, Services, and Users

Telephony Features Available for the Phone

Table 5-1

Telephony Features for the Cisco Unified IP Phone (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feature

 

Description

Configuration Reference

 

 

 

 

 

Forced authorization

Controls the types of calls that certain users can

For more information, refer to:

 

codes (FAC)

 

place.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

 

 

(SCCP phones only)

 

System Guide, “Forced Authorization

 

 

 

 

Codes (FAC)” chapter.

 

 

 

 

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

 

Features and Services Guide, “Client

 

 

 

 

Matter Codes and Forced Authorization

 

 

 

 

Codes” chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

Group call pickup

Allows a user to answer a call that is ringing on a

For more information, refer to the Cisco

 

 

 

directory number in another group.

Unified Communications Manager Features

 

 

 

 

and Services Guide, “Call Pickup” chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Help system

 

Provides a comprehensive set of topics that appear

Requires no configuration.

 

 

 

on the phone screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hold/Resume

 

Allows the user to move a connected call between

Requires no configuration, unless you

 

 

 

an active state and a held state.

want to use music on hold. See “Music on

 

 

 

 

Hold” in this table for information.

 

 

 

 

See also: “Hold Reversion” in this table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hold Reversion

 

Limits the amount of time that a call can be on hold

For more information about configuring this

 

 

 

before reverting back to the phone that put the call

feature, refer to Cisco Unified

 

 

 

on hold and alerting the user.

Communications Manager Features and

 

 

 

Reverting calls are distinguished from incoming

Services Guide, “Hold Reversion” chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

calls by a single ring (or beep, depending on the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

new call indicator setting for the line). This

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

notification repeats at intervals if not resumed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A call that triggers Hold Reversion also displays an

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

animated icon in the call bubble and a brief

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

message on the status line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can configure call focus priority to favor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

incoming or reverting calls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hunt Group

 

Provides load sharing for calls to a main directory

For more information, refer to:

 

 

 

number. A hunt group contains a series of directory

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

numbers that can answer the incoming calls. When

 

 

 

Administration Guide, “Hunt Group

 

 

 

the first directory number in the hunt group is busy,

 

 

 

Configuration” chapter.

 

 

 

the system hunts in a predetermined sequence for

 

 

 

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

the next available directory number in the group

 

 

 

and directs the call to that phone.

System Guide, “Understanding Route

 

 

 

 

Plans” chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

Immediate Divert

Allows a user to transfer a ringing, connected, or

For more information, refer to:

 

 

 

held call directly to a voice-messaging

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

system.When a call is diverted, the line becomes

 

 

 

System Guide, “Cisco Unified IP Phones”

 

 

 

available to make or receive new calls.

 

 

 

chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

 

Features and Services Guide, “Immediate

 

 

 

 

Divert” chapter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G/7971G-GE Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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