Special telephones, Direct dial, Hotline – Nortel Networks T7316 User Manual

Page 123: Hotline bypass, Change direct dial telephone assignments

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Chapter 11 System features

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Telephone Features Programming Guide

Special telephones

You can dedicate telephones to serve special functions such as:

Direct dial

Hotline

Control

Direct dial

You can reach the direct dial telephone by dialing a single digit. The direct dial telephone is
normally in a central location, such as at an attendant’s desk. You can have up to five direct dial
telephones for your system. The direct dial telephone is normally the prime telephone or the
central answering position (CAP).

The direct dial telephone can send up to 30 messages and can activate services to activate the extra
dial telephone.

Change direct dial telephone assignments

(Unified Manager Programming)

Your installer assigns the direct dial telephone during installation.

You can change the direct dial telephone. You need to start a Unified Manager session to program
this feature. For more information about programming using Unified Manager, see the Business
Communications Manager Programming Operations Guide
.

You can assign any number of telephones to call the direct dial telephone.

Hotline

A hotline telephone calls a pre-determined internal or external telephone number when you pick
up the handset or press the handsfree button.

Hotline bypass

Press a line button, or use the Pre-Dial or Automatic Dial feature before you pick up the handset or
press the handsfree button on a hotline telephone. See the Telephone

Feature

Card or see

“Select

how you dial your calls” on page 48

.

Note:

Label the hotline telephone to warn anyone using it that it is active.

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