Comdial Scout 900MXS Cordless Instruction Manual

							Using The Other
Telephone Features
7.1 Using Chapter Seven
This chapter details features that enhance the basic operation of
your digital wireless telephone.
Remember, your station may be arranged to give you access to
an assigned line or intercom as soon as you lift the handset
from the base unit or as soon as you press the TALK button if
you are using the handset in a portable manner. Because of this
versatility, the instructions in this chapter tell you tolift handset
and pressTALK(if necessary). The instructions also tell you to
press line or intercom button (if necessary).
7.2 Blocking Voice Announce Calls
7.3 Displaying Status Of Busy Lines
And Stations (Busy Button Inquiry)
7.4 Displaying Button Functions
7.5 Entering Account Codes
7.6 Entering Authorization Codes
7.7 Forwarding Calls
7.8 Making A Call Non-Private
7.9 Monitoring A Conversation Between
Two Telephones (Service Observing)
7.10 Muting Your Telephone
7.11 Sending A Paging Announcement
7.12 Setting A Do Not Disturb Condition At Your
Telephone
7.13 Setting The Volume Control
7.14 Switching The Dialing Mode Between Pulse And Tone
7.15 Using The Tracker Paging System
7.16 Using Your Digital Wireless Telephone
With A DSS/BLF Console
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							7.2 Blocking Voice Announced Calls
When you operate your telephone using the optional headset,
other system users can make subdued off-hook voice an
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nouncements to you through your headset while your are on a
call. You can block these SOHVA announcements if you wish.
To block SOHVA calls,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial
2.
To un-block SOHVA calls,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial#2.
7.3 Displaying Status Of Busy
Lines And Stations
The system installer can provide your digital wireless tele-
phone with the ability to display the identify the station that is
busy on a line and the line on which a station is busy (this latter
feature usually requires an optional DSS/BLF console). The
system presents the information to your display for 10 seconds
after you request it. If your telephone does not have this fea-
ture, it displays busy status without identifying information.
To identify the station that occupies a busy line,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press line button for busy line,
read identity of occupying station in your telephone’s dis-
play.
To identify the line that a busy station occupies,
press DSS button for busy station
NOTE: unless your telephone has a DSS button assigned at F1–F4, you
will need the optional DSS/BLF console to exercise this feature.
read identity of busy line in your telephone’s display.
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							7.4 Displaying Button Functions(Button Query)
You can cause the telephone’s display to identify the function
of each button on your telephone. This is useful when the in
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staller has assigned your function buttons for special-purpose
tasks and you need to remind yourself of the button’s feature.
To button query your telephone,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
Dial

8.
press the button in question,
read the displayed information (display will hold for few
seconds before the telephone returns to idle).
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							7.5 Entering Account Codes
If the system installer has arranged your telephone system for
account code entry, your telephone display may prompt you to
dial a code and then enter an account code before you dial a
number or after you answer a call. Account codes enhance the
station message detail accounting reports that businesses some
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times find useful.
To enter account code on an incoming call,
answer call,
press intercom button,
dial
04(call is automatically placed on hold),
dial account code. Your telephone automatically returns
to the call after you’ve dialed the complete account code.
To enter account code on an outgoing call,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press line button (if necessary),
press intercom button,
dial
04(call is automatically placed on hold),
dial account code,
listen for dial tone and dial number you are calling.
NOTE:If you hear an error tone after you have dialed your account
code, check the number for validity.
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							7.6 Entering Authorization Codes
Authorization codes give you awalking class of serviceoption.
Walking class of serviceprovides you with the mobility to use
your class of service (COS) features, prime line assignments,
and exception numbers on any other telephone in the system.
This feature could be useful to you should you travel out of
range to use your digital wireless telephone and need to use a
system telephone that you find nearby. With authorization code
operation, you will not be limited by features that are available
to the particular telephone that you happen to be using.
Authorization codes are associated with your personal intercom
number and are assigned to you by your installer when he or
she programs the system. When you enter your assigned autho
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rization code at another system telephone, the code alerts the
system to make your normal features available to you at that
telephone. This means that you can use the same calling fea-
tures on that telephone that the system allows you to use on
your telephone; however, you cannot disturb the last number
redial stored there by the normal user. Once you access your
calling features at another telephone, they remain in effect until
any idle time exceeds the authorization code time-out period.
You can also use your authorization code to lock your digital
wireless telephone and deny other users access to its lines and
features. This feature prevents indiscriminate use should you
leave your handset laying somewhere unattended.
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							To activate walking class of service,
select another system telephone to use,
pressINTERCOMon that telephone,
dial#08,
dial your authorization code,
complete your calling requirements.
To lock your telephone,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial#04
dial your authorization code.
NOTE: If you wait longer than two seconds to dial a digit after you dial
the action code, that pause, and any others that you might in-
clude, becomes part of the lock code. The telephone display will
show a (-) to represent a pause as part of the code as you enter
it. You must allow for any pauses at wherever location that you
inserted them in the number string when you unlock your tele-
phone. This feature provides you with a method for creating a
very effective lock and unlock password.
To unlock your telephone,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial your authorization code (remember, include any
pauses that you inserted when you locked your tele-
phone).
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							7.7 Forwarding Calls
You can permanently forward calls that normally ring at your
telephone. You can forward just your prime line and intercom
calls or you can forward all calls. When you exercise this fea
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ture, your telephone will ring a short ring burst each time the
system forwards a call. It does this to remind you that the sys
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tem is forwarding your calls.
You can also forward calls that ring at your telephone but re
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ceive no answer; This feature is valuable if you are frequently
too busy to answer a call yet find it inconvenient to have your
calls permanently forwarded. The system installer sets the
number of rings that sound at your telephone before the system
forwards the calls.
To forward your calls,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial one of the following codes,
Forward Immediately Forward After Ring
No-Answer Or Busy
All calls

52,
54
Prime line and personal
intercom calls
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Telephone automatically hangs up when you finish.
To cancel call forwarding,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial#5,
Telephone automatically hangs up when you finish.
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							7.8 Making A Call Non-Private(Privacy Release)
It is often the case that telephones will share line appearance
for one or more lines. When one telephone is active on a line
that several other telephones share, the call is private (users at
the other telephones cannot join the conversation by pressing
the line button of the line being used). A situation may exist
where users want others to join an in-progress call. In this case,
they need a method to make the call non-private. If you have
this situation with your digital wireless telephone, ask your sys
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tem installer to assign aPRIVACY RELEASEbutton on your
telephone at one of your function buttons F1–F4.
To release privacy from your telephone while on a call,
press preprogrammedPRIVACY RELEASEbutton.
The light associated with the PRIVACY RELEASE but
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ton will remain on steady when your telephone is in a
non-private mode.
Others who wish to join the call must press the active line but-
ton on their telephones. Privacy returns when the call is com-
pleted.
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							7.9 Monitoring A Conversation Between
Two Telephones
(Service Observing)
If your telephone provides the installer-programmed service
observing feature, you can use it to monitor an on-going con
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versation at another telephone in an undetected manner.
To monitor another station at any time,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial#03,
dial extension number of telephone to be monitored,
pressTALKto end monitoring.
7.10 Muting Your Telephone
By using theMUTEbutton, you can block transmission of
your voice to the calling party. For example, if someone comes
into your office to talk to you and you do not want this conver-
sation to interrupt the distant party, press theMUTEbutton.
To mute your telephone,
press and holdMUTE(you can still hear the distant
party’s voice).
To speak to the calling party,
releaseMUTE.
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							7.11 Sending A Paging Announcement
There are several ways to make a public announcement to all or
a portion of your location. Your system might be arranged with
an external paging unit that you access by pressing a line but
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ton or by dialing a special code. This unit sounds the an
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nouncement over an external speaker unit.
Your system may provide an all-call or a zone page feature that
you access by dialing special codes. This arrangement sounds
your voice announcement through the telephone speakers.
All-call sounds the announcement through all telephones, while
zone paging sounds it only through those telephones located in
a specific area. Check with your system administrator to deter
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mine the type of paging and access method that you should use.
To send a paging announcement,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial70-77for zones1-8(when the system is operating
in the defaulted mode, zone 1 provides an all-call func-
tion),
make announcement,
NOTE: To guard against the annoying noise caused by audio feedback,
do not stand near a paging speaker while you deliver a page an-
nouncement.
remain on line if awaiting a reply (known as a “meet-me”
page),
–or–
hang up to end.
To reply to a “meet-me” page,
hear page announcement,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press intercom button (if necessary),
dial78,
meet paging party on line.
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