Chapter 6 Customizing the Cisco Unified IP Phone

Automatically Disabling the Cisco Unified IP Phone Touchscreen

You can configure settings in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration to turn off the display at a designated time on some days and all day on other days. For example, you may choose to turn off the display after business hours on weekdays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays.

When the display is off, the LCD screen is dark and disabled, and the Display button lights. You can take any of these actions to turn on the display any time it is off:

Press any button on the phone.

If you press a button other than the Display button, the phone will take the action designated by that button in addition to turning on the display.

Touch the touchscreen.

Lift the handset.

When you turn the display on, it remains on until the phone has remained idle for a designated length of time, then it turns off automatically.

Note You can use the Display button to temporarily disable the touchscreen for cleaning. See the “Cleaning the Cisco Unified IP Phone” section on page 9-17for more information.

Table 6-1explains the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration fields that control when the display turns on and off. You configure these fields in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration in the Product Specific configuration window. (You access this window by choosing Device > Phone from Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration.)

You can view the display settings for a phone from the Power Save Configuration menu on the phone. For more information, see the “Power Save Configuration Menu” section on page 4-22.

Table 6-1 Display On and Off Configuration Fields

 

 

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Days Display Not Active

Days that the display does not turn on automatically at the time specified in

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Display On Time field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choose the day or days from the drop-down list. To choose more than one

 

 

 

 

 

 

day, Ctrl-click each day that you want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Display On Time

Time each day that the display turns on automatically (except on the days

 

 

 

 

 

 

specified in the Days Display Not Active field).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter the time in this field in 24 hour format, where 0:00 is midnight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, to automatically turn the display on at 7:00 a.m., (0700), enter

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:00. To turn the display on at 2:00 p.m. (1400), enter 14:00.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this field is blank, the display will automatically turn on at 0:00.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Display On Duration

Length of time that the display remains on after turning on at the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

specified in the Display On Time field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter the value in this field in the format hours:minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, to keep the display on for 4 hours and 30 minutes after it turns

 

 

 

 

 

 

on automatically, enter 4:30.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this field is blank, the phone will turn off at the end of the day (0:00).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note If Display On Time is 0:00 and the display on duration is blank (or

 

 

 

 

 

 

24:00), the display will remain on continuously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems 7970G, 7971G-GE manual Field Description

7970G, 7971G-GE specifications

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