Vertical Communications TeleVantage 7.5 manual Changing your active settings

Changing your active settings

You can change your active settings in the following ways:

QChange each active setting individually by going to the appropriate folder or dialog box. For example, you can set your active greeting in the Greetings folder, your active routing list in the Routing Lists folder, your Where I Am setting by forwarding your calls, and so forth.

QChange several active settings at once by selecting a personal status. For example, if your On Vacation personal status uses the “I’m on vacation” greeting and specifies that your phone does not ring, whenever you select the On Vacation status, “I’m on vacation” becomes the active greeting and your Taking calls setting is set to No.

QChange active settings directly by using the Active Settings dialog box (see the next section).

Each change you make to an active setting overrides the previous one.

Example: You select the personal status On Vacation, which makes the “I’m on vacation” greeting active. Then you open the Greetings folder and make the “Standard” greeting active. The “Standard” greeting is now the active one, even though the On Vacation personal status is still in effect.

Changing your active settings directly

The Active Settings dialog box gives you quick access to all your active settings in one place. Changes you make in this dialog box become your new active settings, and remain active until something else changes them, for example, until you select a new personal status or change the active greeting in the Greetings folder.

You can use the Active Settings dialog box in the following ways:

QSee at a glance all your current active settings, so that you know how your incoming calls are being handled.

QSet an aspect of a personal status differently whenever you select that status. For example, whenever you select the status Out of the Office, you might want to specify a different call forwarding location. You would select the status, and then specify your call forwarding location in the Active Settings dialog box.

You can set a personal status to open the Active Settings dialog box whenever you select that personal status so that you can make this kind of change. To do so, edit the personal status as shown in “Modifying a personal status” on page 9-6, and check When I select this Personal Status, prompt me to change these settings.

Note:If you find that you override a personal status preference frequently in the same way, consider changing the preference in the personal status permanently. For example, if you want the Out of the Office personal status to always use your custom routing list that includes your cell phone, specify that routing list in the personal status itself.

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