Answering calls – Avaya 15-601040 User Manual

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1400 Series Phone User Guide

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15-601040 Issue 06d (Monday, March 19, 2012)

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3. Answering Calls

A slow flashing green lamp on an

appearance button indicates an alerting call. This may also be accompanied by

ringing

and by the message lamp flashing.

Selected Button

If the button also has a red lamp (

) that indicates that it is already the selected button that will be used if you lift the

handset or go off hook in any other way. If that in the case you can answer the call in the following ways:

To answer a call on the selected button:

= Red on, Slow green flash.

1. Select the method which you want to use to talk to the caller:

·

To quiet the ringing, press the >> double-arrow soft key and then press the Ignore soft key. The call will still
continue alerting visually and can be answered or ignored.

·

To redirect the call to voicemail, press the >> double-arrow soft key and then press the To VM soft key.

·

To answer the call using the handset, lift the handset.

·

To answer the call handsfree, press the SPEAKER key.

·

To answer the call on a headset, press the

HEADSET key.

·

Just pressing the

key will answer the call either on the speaker or headset depending on the phones

audio

path

setting.

2. The green lamp will stop its slow flash. Once you have answered the call, you can switch between talk modes:

·

To switch to using the handset, lift the handset.

·

To switch to handsfree, press the SPEAKER key. If you were using the handset you can now safely replace
it.

·

To switch to headset mode, press the

HEADSET key. If you were using the handset you can now safely

replace it.

·

If you have answered the call on the speaker or headset, pressing the SPEAKER or HEADSET key again
before you select another mode will end the call.

·

Just pressing the

key or any other appearance button will put the call on hold.

Answering Another Call

If the button that with a slow green flash does not have a red light, it is not the currently selected button. That may be
because you are already on a call on another button. If that is the case, answering the new call will automatically put the
existing call on hold.

[1]

1. Using the

up and down

arrow keys, you can scroll the display to see details of the waiting call.

·

To quiet the ringing, press the >> double-arrow soft key and then press the Ignore soft key. The call will still
continue alerting and can be answered or ignored.

·

To redirect the call to voicemail, press the >> double-arrow soft key and then press the To VM soft key.

2. Press the flashing green appearance button

to answer the new call and put the existing call on hold. The call

will be answered using which ever talk mode you were already using for the existing call.

Notes

1. This guide assumed that auto hold is enabled (the default). The system administrator can disable auto hold for the

system, in which case calls are automatically disconnected rather than held.

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