Toshiba Strata CS manual Adding a party to a conference

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Adding a new party into the conference

Conferencing two separate calls together

Adding a party to a conference

Use this procedure to start and build a conference call. The call is placed on hold while you are adding new parties, but the parties already conferenced can continue to talk to each other.

1.Dial the first party and wait for an answer.

2.Click the call in the Call Monitor view.

3.Choose Actions > Conference. The Conference dialog box opens.

4.Select the second party for the conference call or enter a phone number to dial, and then click OK. See “Placing a call” on page 11-2 for more information.

Note: If you have more than one active call when you choose the Conference command, click the New Call tab in the Conference dialog box to place the call.

When the call is answered, you are connected to the new party in a separate call. The Conferencing dialog box opens giving you the option of adding the party to the conference or not.

5.Determine whether you want to add the new party to the conference. Then click one of the following:

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Complete. The new party is added to the conference call.

Cancel. The new party’s call is disconnected, and you return to the conference call.

6.Repeat steps 2-5 to add more parties to the conference.

Important:

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No more than 7 parties can participate in a conference call,

You cannot conference two conference calls together.

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