Siemens 300 Series, 600 Series manual Station Hunt Group, Hunting Patterns, Circular Pattern

Station Hunt Group

To set up a station hunt group, a person who wants to be included sets up a destination, which is the next extension to be hunted. Calls to that person’s primary extension will then advance to their destination.

You can only join a station hunt group if your phone has been assigned the station hunt group class of service. (Ask your CBX system administrator whether your phone has it.) You can only be a member of one station hunt group. However, other linear-pattern hunt groups may include you as the last member of their groups. (See “Linear Pattern” on page 7–9.)

A call to a station hunt group can be made initially to any group member, since a station hunt group does not have a pilot extension.

Hunting Patterns

If hunt destinations are set up so that the first member becomes the destination of the last member, a circular pattern is formed. If hunt destinations are set up so that the last member has no further destination, a linear pattern is formed.

Circular Pattern

In a circular pattern, a call will advance from busy phones, or from ringing phones with No-Answer Ad- vance, until every phone in the group has been checked once.

For a circular-pattern pilot hunt group, if all the members of the group are busy the call will then be placed in a queue until one of the members becomes available. If no system queue has been set up at the CBX, or if all queue positions are occupied, the caller will receive a busy tone.

7–8ROLMphone 300/600 User Guide