Comdial Scout 900MXS Cordless Telephone User Guide

3.8 Camping On At A Busy Station
And Waiting For An Automatic Callback
If you call another station and receive a busy signal or a Do
Not Disturb tone, you can dial a feature code that will cause the
system to ring your telephone when the station is available.
This is called “camping on at a station.” Please note that you
can camp on to only one station at a time.
To camp on at any busy, do not disturb, or ring no-answer sta
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tion,
dial
6.
Your telephone immediately hangs up. When the station you
called...

3.9 Camping On At A Busy Station
And Waiting For An Answer
(Call Waiting)
If the telephone you have called is busy, you can send a call-
waiting tone to the telephone and wait on the line for an an
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swer.
To activate call waiting,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press button to select intercom,
dial extension number and hear busy signal,
dial
01(called party hears tone),
wait on line for reply.
Called party can place the current call on hold or disconnect
from the call to answer your...

3.10 Overriding A Call
Or A Do Not Disturb Condition
At Another Telephone
(Executive Override)
You can override a call in progress or a Do Not Disturb condi
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tion at another telephone if the system installer has enabled the
executive override feature at your telephone. (If the feature is
not enabled through programming, an error tone will sound.)
To override an in-progress call at another telephone,
make intercom call and hear a busy signal,
dial
03(all parties will hear several tone bursts),
join...

3.11 Making A Subdued Off-Hook
Voice Announcement
(SOHVA)
You can make a subdued voice announcement to another sta
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tion that is off-hook and busy on a call if the system is arranged
to provide this feature. If your telephone provides aSOHVA
button and you encounter a busy tone after making an intercom
call, you can then decide whether to deliver a SOHVA mes
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sage, camp on at that station, set a message-waiting indicator,
or hang up. Without this special button, the SOHVA call com
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pletes...

Placing Calls On Hold
4.1 Using Chapter Four
You can place calls on hold and pick them up a short time later
in several different ways. This chapter explains the various
methods you can use to hold a call.
4.2 Holding Calls
4.3 Handling Hold Recalls
4.4 Parking Calls
4.5 Handling Park Recalls
Placing Calls On Hold
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4.2 Holding Calls
You can place a call on hold and pick it back up a short time
later. With a regular hold, either you can pick up the held call
at your telephone, or another user can pick it up at another tele
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phone if that telephone shares the held call line with your tele
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phone. With an exclusive hold condition, you must pick the
held call up at your telephone; no other telephone has access to
it.
You can also answer and place on hold a call that is on a line
that does not appear at your telephone...

To place a call on directed hold at another telephone,
while on line, pressINTERCOM,
dial
90,
dial extension number of telephone to receive held call.
To pick a directed hold call back up if you wish,
lift handset and pressTALK(if necessary),
press button to select intercom (if necessary),
dial
4,
dial extension number of telephone that received held call,
service call or pressTALKto hang up.
To answer a directed hold that someone placed at your tele-
phone,
lift handset and pressTALK(if...

4.3 Handling Hold Recalls
After a call has been on hold for the period of time (set by the
installer of your system), the system will cause a hold recall
ring burst to sound at your telephone and the flash rate of the
line button becomes faster.
If the call is on exclusive hold, it will revert to manual hold af
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ter the hold recall period (you will hear a ring burst when this
happens). Any user whose telephone line appearance for the
recalling line can pick up calls that revert to manual hold
If you...

4.4 Parking Calls
You can place a call on hold in the system so that it can be an
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swered from any station that does not have line appearance for
the call. You accomplish this by placing the call in one of nine
park orbits, where the call remains until it is answered. If the
call is not answered within a specified period of time, the sys
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tem will send it back to your station for service (this is known
as a park recall).
When you press an intercom button and dial a code to retrieve
a parked call, the...

4.5 Handling Park Recalls
When a parked call “times out” of the system, it will return to
your telephone in the form of a park recall (you will hear sev
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eral short ring bursts). Your display will indicate that the call is
recalling.
To answer a park recall,
press button for recalling line. The call will then connect
to your station. If you do not answer the park recall, the
system will place the call on hold at your telephone. The
call remains on hold for a period of time and then rings
back to your...