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CallPilot Manager Set Up and Operation Guide
Chapter 6
Setting up the Automated Attendant
About the Automated Attendant
The Automated Attendant can answer your companys incoming telephone calls from an external 
user. The Automated Attendant plays a prerecorded greeting selected from the Greeting Table, 
according to the time of day.
You can record and assign different greetings to the Greeting Table. The Greeting Table 
parameters control the Auto Attendant. Greeting Table parameters include custom...

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Greeting Tables
A Greeting Table stores the recordings played by the Auto Attendant to the incoming callers. 
CallPilot150 and Business Communications Manager 2.5 have four greeting tables which can be 
assigned to individual incoming lines. CallPilot Mini has one greeting table.
You can store a total of 40 Company Greetings, but only four greetings can be assigned to a 
Greeting Table at any one time. If you use CallPilot 150 or Business...

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Greeting Tables using the alternate language
If you use CallPilot Mini you have one Greeting Table. If you use two languages, record the 
primary prompts in the primary language and the alternate prompts in the alternate language.
If you use CallPilot 150 or Business Communications Manager 2.5 you have four Greeting Tables. 
If you use primary and alternate languages, we recommend that you assign one Greeting...

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About Company Greetings
Before you record your Company Greetings, decide what type of greetings you want to use for the 
incoming calls, and what you want the greetings to say. There are four greeting times that reflect 
the Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Non-business hours. You can prepare four greetings, or you 
can use the same greeting for each time of day. As you record the greetings, number them from 1 
to 4.
An example greeting...

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Recording a Company Greeting
To record a Company Greeting
1Click the Auto-Attendant heading.
2Click the Company Greetings link.
The Company Greetings screen appears.
3Click the Voice link for the greeting you want to record
and
follow the steps in “Recording greetings, prompts and names” on page 47 to record a greeting 
from your computer or telephone handset
or 
follow the steps in “Importing greetings,...

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Assigning greetings to Greeting Tables
In a Greeting Table you can assign what greeting plays and what CCR Tree calls route to, 
depending on the time of day. You do not have to assign a CCR Tree to a Greeting Table, but if 
you want to assign a CCR Tree to a Greeting Table you must build it first.
If you do not assign a CCR Tree to a Greeting Table, the caller hears the greeting you assign, then 
hears the Automated Attendant menu...

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Assigning a Greeting Table Attendant
Callers who press  during the Auto Attendant menu or while they are in a CCR Tree are sent to 
the Attendant Extension that you assign in the Greeting Table. The Greeting Table Attendant 
Extension overrides the designated Operator Attendant.
To assign a Greeting Table Attendant
1Click the Auto-Attendant heading.
2Click the Greeting Tables link.
The Greeting Tables page...

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Assigning a language preference
After you assign greetings to the Greeting Table, assign the language preference. You can change 
the language preference any time. You can set the language preference for a Greeting Table. This 
setting determines which language the Automated Attendant uses when answering incoming calls. 
If you have not selected the CallPilot Bilingual Option, you do not need to select a language 
preference in the...

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Assigning a menu repeat key
Choose a digit that lets callers repeat the current menu prompt. The Menu Repeat Key takes 
priority over any CCR Tree or Auto Attendant menu items that are already configured, and applies 
to all CCR Trees and Auto Attendant menus in the Greeting Table. If you choose 0 as the Menu 
Repeat Key, it prevents callers from being able to revert to the Attendant, in favor of Menu...

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Automated Attendant Menu
The Automated Attendant Menu plays after the Company Greeting, and when an internal mailbox 
owner accesses the Automated Attendant.
The default Automated Attendant Menu prompt is:  “Using the dialpad, please enter the extension 
you wish to call. To use the directory, press 
\b.  To leave a message, press . To reach an 
Operator, press 
. ”
Recording a Custom Menu
If you do not want to use the default Automated...
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