MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0

Issue 1

System Manager’s Guide 555-650-118

June 1997

 

 

4Features and Applications

Features

 

 

Page 4-39

Table 4–10.

Continued

 

 

Feature

Covered by

Description

Example

Remote

Outside

A person temporarily forwards

A person is working at home

Call

phone

his or her calls to an outside

and wants to receive calls

Forward

 

extension, turning the feature on

there.

 

 

at the destination phone or at

 

 

 

the originating phone.

 

Group

A calling

Coverage for a group of people.

Calls to a government

Coverage

group, QCC

This type of coverage cannot be

agency are not directed to

 

operator, or

turned completely off at the

individuals, and can be

 

individual

extension. Coverage of outside

answered, for example, this

 

 

calls always remains in effect.

way: “Hello, this is the IRS

 

 

 

Help Line.”

Individual

A calling

Coverage for one person. This

An executive’s calls must be

Coverage

group, QCC

type of coverage gives the

answered with her name, so

 

operator, or

sender maximum control over

her assistant covers for her,

 

individual

coverage.

answering, “Hello, this is

 

 

 

May’s office.”

Pickup

A pickup

Allows someone to answer calls

A bookkeeping department

 

group or any

ringing at another extension or

works closely together and

 

individual

on a line not assigned to his or

their calls can usually be

 

 

her phone. With Group Pickup,

handled by anyone in the

 

 

the person does not need to

group. In accounts

 

 

know the extension number

receivable, clerks sitting next

 

 

where the call is ringing. With

to one another have

 

 

general Pickup for a line or

individual Pickup buttons to

 

 

extension, the user must know

answer calls at a neighbor’s

 

 

the line/extension number. A

extension.

 

 

button can be programmed to

 

 

 

pick up calls at an extension.

 

 

 

 

 

Shared

One or more

Allows people who share a

All of the account

Personal

individuals

personal line to cover calls for

representatives have their

Line

 

each other. Privacy is available

own personal lines for

 

 

to prevent joining of calls. (Ring

answering customer calls.

 

 

Timing Options can facilitate

When they need a technical

 

 

this.) Does not allow covering of

representative’s expertise

 

 

calls on ICOM or SA buttons.

during a phone

 

 

 

conversation, it is easy for

 

 

 

the technician to join in.

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