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User Guide for the Polycom VVX 1500 C Business Media Phone for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (SIP)
To invite a person or system in the CMA Directory to your Buddy Status list:
1Do one of the following:
—Tap
> Features > CMA Directory.
—Press , and then tap CMA Directory.
—From the idle screen, tap the Buddies soft key. From the Buddy Status screen, tap the Add soft key.
2From the Search CMA screen, perform a quick search or group search to find the person you want to add to your Buddy Status list.
A quick search allows you to search using the person’s first or last name (depending on how the directory is organized). A group search allows you to search for all the groups in an organization (for example, HR, Administration, or Payroll), and then view the people that belong to each group.
—To perform a quick search, start typing a name, and then tap the Submit soft key. The screen displays a list of people, starting with any successful matches. If the contact you want to add isn’t already
highlighted, scroll to the person using or
.
If your search returns too many results to display, the message “Too many results received. Enter more characters” displays. To limit your search results, enter more characters in the Search box, and then tap the Submit soft key.
or
—To perform a group search, tap the Groups soft key. From the Groups screen, tap the group you want to view. All the people in the group will display. If the contact you want to add isn’t already highlighted,
scroll to the contact using or
.
To find a specific person in a group, enter specific characters in the Search box, and then tap the Submit soft key.
(If you tap the Submit soft key and the message “Directory Server not responding” displays, access to the CMA Directory is temporarily unavailable.)
3Tap the Add Contact soft key. An invitation is sent to the person.
If the message “Contact does not support presence. Save to local
Contact Directory?” displays after you press the Add Contact soft key, you can’t add the person to your Buddy Status list, but you can add the person to your local Contact Directory. To add the person to your local
Contact Directory, tap the Yes soft key. The message “Saved” displays.
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