Comdial OPX-X The Off-Premise Extension Instrallation Manual

							Idle Line Programming
Idle Line Preference
With you enable this feature, a station automatically connects to an idle line when the user lifts the telephone’s
handset.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select COS programming and press ENTER.
4. Type class of service number (1-32) and press ENTER.
5. Fro COS programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press SPACE bar for feature setting.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each COS or press ESCAPE to end.
Idle Line Priority
If you give a station the ability to automatically connect to an idle assigned line when the user takes the handset
off-hook, take this programming action to set the priority in which the system chooses the idle lines for use. You
can place up to eight lines in this priority list.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Type any eight line numbers (type as n,nn,nnn or n–nnn) and press ENTER.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
Ringing Line Preference
When you enable this feature, a station can automatically connect to a ringing line when a user takes his or her
telephone off-hook.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From the main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From the stations menu, select COS programming and press ENTER.
4. Type class of service number (1-32) and press ENTER.
5. From the COS programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press SPACE bar for feature setting.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each COS or press ESCAPE to end.
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							Dialing Mode
Program the line port to match either a DTMF tone or a rotary (pulse) dialing line as supplied by the central office
(CO).
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select lines and press ENTER.
3. From lines menu, select line programming and press ENTER.
4. Type line port number or name and press ENTER.
5. From line programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press SPACE bar for feature setting and press ENTER to accept setting.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each line port or press ESCAPE to end.
Pulse Dial Make/Pulse Dial Break (Pulse Dial Ratio)
Use this procedure to set the make/break ratio for rotary dial signalling to match rotary dial line requirements.
You can set the line make/break ratio for rotary dial (pulse dial) signalling in a more flexible manner to match
many different rotary dial line requirements. You can set the make time and the break time independently in one
msec. increments to any time from one to 99 msec.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu,
2. From main menu, select system and press ENTER.
3. From system menu, select timing and press ENTER,
4. From timing menu, type item number for line pulse make and press ENTER.
5. Type desired time (1–99) and press ENTER,
6. From timing menu, type item number for line pulse break and press ENTER.
7. Type desired time (1–99) and press ENTER.
8. Press ESCAPE twice,
9. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
Pulse Dial Interdigit Time
You can set the interdigit time between dial pulses when the system pulse-dials a number over a line. The digital
communications system defaults this time to 200 msec. and provides a range of timing values between 100 msec.
and one sec. that you can set in 100 msec. increments.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu,
2. From main menu, select system and press ENTER.
3. From the system menu, select timing and press ENTER.
4. From timing menu type item number for feature and press ENTER.
5. Press SPACE bar to select desired time and press ENTER to select setting.
6. Press ESCAPE twice,
7. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
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							Flexible Ringing Assignments
Program ringing assignments on a per station/per line/per intercom number basis.  Ringing can be immediate,
delayed, or special purpose. Use the procedures in this section to customize the ringing features for the system.
Direct Ringing
Use this procedure to choose the line ports that you want to ring at a station as soon as a call appears. Direct
ringing sounds during the day 1 and day 2 time periods but does not ring during the night ringing mode or during
the manual night transfer (of ringing) operation.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type the item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press CONTROL E for edit.
7. Type a for add or r for remove and press ENTER.
8. Type line port number (type as n,nn,nnn or n–nnn) and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
10. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
11 Repeat steps 4-10 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
Delayed Ringing
Use this procedure to choose the line ports that you want to ring at a station after waiting a short time period from
when a call appears. Delayed ringing sounds during day 1, day 2 time periods, during the night ringing mode, and
during the manual night transfer (of ringing) operation.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press CONTROL E.
7. Type a for add or r for remove and press ENTER.
8. Type line port number (type as n,nn,nnn or n—nnn) and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
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							Day 1 Ring
Use this procedure to choose the line ports that you want to ring at stations during the day 1 ringing mode time
period. Refer to the paragraph below titled, Day 1, Day 2, and Night Ringing Begin and End Times, to set the
beginning and ending times of this ringing.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
7. Type a for add or r for remove and press ENTER.
6. Press CONTROL E to edit.
8. Type line port number (type as n,nn,nnn or n–nnn) and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
10. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
11. Repeat steps 4–10 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
Day 2 Ring
Use this procedure to choose the line ports that you want to ring at stations during the day 2 ringing mode time
period. Refer to the paragraph below titled, Day 1, Day 2, and Night Ringing Begin and End Times, to set the
beginning and ending times of this ringing.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press CONTROL E to edit.
7. Type a for add or r for remove and press ENTER.
8. Type line port number (type as n,nn,nnn or n–nnn) and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
10. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
11. Repeat steps 4-10 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
Day 1, Day 2, And Night Ringing Begin And End Times
With this programming procedure, set the begin and end times of the day 1, day 2, and night ringing time periods.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select system and press ENTER.
3. From system menu, select system parameters and press ENTER.
4. From the system parameters menu, select day 1, day 2 or night ringing begin times
and press ENTER.
5. Type times in 24–hour format (hh:mm) and press ENTER.
6. Press ENTER (repeatedly if needed) to place cursor at next time desired setting.
7. Repeat step 5 and press ENTER.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 until all times are set and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
10. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
11. Repeat steps 4-10 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
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							Night Ring (Night Transfer - Of Ringing)
Choose the line ports that you want to ring, along with the delayed ringing line ports, at stations during the night
ringing mode of operation. The ringing arrangement that you configure here is the arrangement that is active both
during the automatic night ringing time period and whenever the attendant manually activates the night transfer
(of ringing) operation. Do note that the attendant commanded night ringing period supersedes the automatic night
ringing period. Refer to the above paragraph titled, Day 1, Day 2, and Night Ringing Begin and End Times, to set
the time for the automatic night ringing period.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press CONTROL E.
7. Type a for add or r for remove and press ENTER.
8. Type line port number (type as n,nn,nnn or n–nnn) and press ENTER.
9. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
10. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
Ring No-Answer Rings
This procedure sets the amount of rings that sound at one station port before the call rolls over to ring at another
station port. Any system feature that requires a ring no-answer value (for example, call forwarding) uses the
setting that you program here.
The system defaults the ring no-answer value at regular station ports to four rings, and it defaults ports
programmed to function as voice mail ports to three rings. This insure that, at default, the voice mail equipment
will have sufficient time to answer a call before it rolls over to the next port.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name
and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Type number of rings 0–6 and press ENTER.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing
and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
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							Personalized Ringing Tone
Program a station to ring in one of several distinctive tones for proprietary digital telephones and in one of four
distinctive tones for analog telephones.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name and press ENTER.
5. From the station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Type ring tone choice and press ENTER.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
While industry-standard telephones do not provide personalized ringing, you can set distinctive ringing for them.
An industry-standard telephone can sound one ring cadence for intercom calls and a different ring cadence for
outside calls or it can sound the same ring cadence for both types of calls. You must select one of these ringing
styles on a station class of service basis.  All industry-standard telephones with the same class of service have the
same ringing style.
NOTE: Do not enable distinctive ringing for voice mail ports.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select stations and press ENTER.
3. From stations menu, select COS programming and press ENTER.
4. Type class of service number (1–32) that corresponds with class of service assigned
to the IST and press ENTER.
5. From COS programming menu, type row number for IST distinctive ringing
and press ENTER.
6. Press SPACE bar for feature setting.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9. Press ESCAPE to end.
Through Dialing (Thru-Dialing)
This procedure allows DTMF tones that are generated by an external device connected to the system through
necessary interface equipment to pass through the system and out to any line connection.
1. Press CONTROL T for main menu.
2. From main menu, select station and press ENTER.
3. From station menu, select station programming and press ENTER.
4. Type personal intercom number or previously assigned name of station being programmed
and press ENTER.
5. From station programming menu, type item number for feature and press ENTER.
6. Press SPACE bar for desired setting and press ENTER.
7. When finished, press ESCAPE twice.
8. Type y to accept changes, n to reject them, or r to resume editing and press ENTER.
9 . Repeat steps 4–8 level for each station or press ESCAPE to end.
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