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C H A P T E1R
CHAPTER1
CHAPTER2
CHAPTER3
CHAPTER4
CHAPTER5
Introduction................................................................................ 1
About this guide.....................................................................................2
System overview ........................................................................ 5
Introduction ............................................................................................6
Basic concepts ........................................................................................8
System IDs ............................................................................................12
System manager overview ...................................................................18
Signing in and signing out....................................................................21
Establishing and terminating a local connection .................................22
Moving between screens .....................................................................24
Moving within a screen ........................................................................25
System information changes by phone and console ...........................26
Shutting down and restarting the system ............................................28
System setup ........................................................................................30
Site information........................................................................ 31
Site information overview.....................................................................32
Completing the site information ..........................................................34
Setting up ports....................................................................................38
Selecting a language for a port............................................................40
Setting up special port options ............................................................42
Setting up the system for DID..............................................................44
Opening greeting..................................................................... 47
Opening greeting overview .................................................................48
Changing the opening greeting setup.................................................50
Setting up greetings.............................................................................52
Setting up actions after greetings........................................................54
Routing callers with one-key dialing ....................................................56
Routing callers to a language select box .............................................58
Adding multiple opening greeting boxes............................................60
Setting up directory assistance options ...............................................62
Operator setup ........................................................................ 65
Operator setup overview .....................................................................66
Setting operator system ID, voice name, and
language information ...........................................................................68
Setting up call transfer .........................................................................70
CONTENTS
Setting up greetings ............................................................................ 73

Setting up actions after greetings ....................................................... 74
Assigning an operator box to a port.................................................... 76
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CHAPTER7
CHAPTER8
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System schedules ......................................................................79

System schedule overview ................................................................... 80
Setting up the systems date and time ................................................ 82
Setting up schedules............................................................................ 83
Setting up a 24-hour schedule ............................................................. 86
Setting up alternate mode ................................................................... 87
Setting up holidays............................................................................... 88
Adjusting for daylight saving time ....................................................... 91
Default subscriber .....................................................................93
Default subscriber overview................................................................. 94
Creating default personal IDs .............................................................. 96
Setting the default language ............................................................... 97
Setting up default message storage .................................................... 98
Selecting default subscriber access options ...................................... 100
Setting up default transfer options .................................................... 104
Setting up default call screening, subscriber
greeting, and call routing................................................................... 110
Setting up one-key dialing ................................................................. 116
Setting up default message notification ............................................ 118
Setting up default fax delivery notification options........................... 122
Creating the default subscriber fax box ............................................ 125
Setting up default fax delivery options.............................................. 127
Enrolling subscribers .......................................................................... 132
Setting up default e-mail options ...................................................... 133
Setting up default live record options ............................................... 134
Message management and storage ........................................137
Message management overview ...................................................... 138
Setting up maximum call recording and screening times.......................... 140
Moving forward or backward during message playback................... 141
Specifying pause durations ................................................................ 142
Playing a beep to signal recording .................................................... 143
Generating disk full warning messages ............................................. 144
Checking the keypad map ................................................................. 145
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Redirecting messages ........................................................................ 146

Changing the message retrieval order .............................................. 148
Changing the message date and time stamp .................................... 149
Controlling what appears onscreen .................................................. 150
Scheduling an automatic voice messaging system shutdown ........... 151
Sending error messages to subscribers ............................................. 153
Saving and storing messages............................................................. 154
Saving and storing call report data.................................................... 156
Setting up directory assistance .......................................................... 157
Specifying longer spelled name options............................................ 160
Limiting the number of times unidentified callers can misdial .......... 162
Setting up the public fax box............................................................. 163
Setting up multiple fax machines....................................................... 167
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C H A P T E R 10
Fax mail setup .........................................................................171

Fax setup overview ............................................................................ 172
Setting up fax ports............................................................................ 174
Changing the default fax dialout and connect time settings ............ 176
Changing the fax transmit settings .................................................... 178
Changing the fax delivery bundle size setting................................... 179
Changing the default fax delivery retry settings ............................... 180
Configuring the North American SmartDialing
feature for fax-on-demand................................................................. 183
Creating a custom fax mail cover sheet............................................. 185
Multisite Messaging ................................................................189
Multisite Messaging overview............................................................ 190
Multisite Messaging setup ................................................................. 192
Site information.................................................................................. 193
Setting up a local site......................................................................... 196
Setting remote site defaults............................................................... 198
Adding a remote site ......................................................................... 200
Directory update methods for PLUSNET-1 sites ............................... 204
Using the manual method for the first directory update ................... 206
Using the alternate method for the first directory update ................ 207
Exporting directory information......................................................... 208
Importing directory information......................................................... 212
Testing the Multisite Messaging network.......................................... 215
Restricting special delivery options ................................................... 216
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Message groups and Multisite Messaging ........................................ 218

Multisite Messaging training.............................................................. 219
C H A P T E R 11
C H A P T E R 12
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Hospitality...............................................................................221
Hospitality overview ........................................................................... 222
Resetting a hotel guest message box................................................ 224
Accessing guest messages after checkout ........................................ 225
Setting up the hotel guest directory.................................................. 226
Using overlapping room extension numbers..................................... 228
Setting up wake-up calls .................................................................... 231
Setting up check-in messages............................................................ 235
Setting up the Multilingual Guest Conversation package ................. 236
Allowing hotel guests to use passwords............................................ 238
Retrieving hotel guest messages ....................................................... 241
Setting up informational messages.................................................... 242
Using hotel guest IDs ......................................................................... 243
Restoring a mailbox ........................................................................... 246
Setting up hotel guest personal options ........................................... 247
Hotel Guests screen overview............................................................ 249
Viewing and changing guest names and language choices .............. 250
Managing messages for an individual guest...................................... 252
Adding and deleting hotel guest rooms and messages .................... 254
Changing a hotel guests call transfer and notification settings........ 256
Managing wake-up calls for an individual guest................................ 262
Converting a hotel guest to a subscriber........................................... 264
Changing guest options for a hotel guest ......................................... 266
Hotel information service ................................................................... 268
Help option for an information service .............................................. 270
Direct call transfers............................................................................. 271
Incorporate advertisers into an information service .......................... 272
Setting up remote recording for advertisers ..................................... 273
Keep your information service current............................................... 274
Personal Directory...................................................................275
Personal Directory overview .............................................................. 276
Adding new subscribers..................................................................... 278
Deleting personal directory information............................................ 280
Assigning system manager status ...................................................... 281
Assigning a language ......................................................................... 282
Setting up message storage .............................................................. 283

Setting up transfer options ................................................................ 284
Setting up call screening, subscriber greeting, and call routing ....... 290
Setting up one-key dialing ................................................................. 296
Setting up message notification ........................................................ 298
Setting up voice and fax delivery notification options ...................... 302
Adding a subscriber fax box ............................................................. 305
Customizing fax delivery options....................................................... 306
Changing access options ................................................................... 312
Enrolling a subscriber......................................................................... 316
Setting up e-mail options................................................................... 318
Setting up live record options............................................................ 320
Adding guests .................................................................................... 322
C H A P T E R 13
C H A P T E R 14
Groups ....................................................................................325
Groups overview ................................................................................ 326
Using the All Subscribers group ........................................................ 328
Creating and deleting message groups............................................. 329
Changing the owner of an open message group .............................. 331
Renaming message groups created by phone .................................. 332
Assigning dispatch distribution ......................................................... 333
Setting up outside caller group messaging ....................................... 334
Creating and changing local access groups ...................................... 336
Numeric directory assistance overview.............................................. 337
Directory groups ................................................................................ 338
Directory menus ................................................................................. 340
Creating directory groups or directory menus .................................. 342
Deleting directory groups or directory menus .................................. 344
Transaction boxes ...................................................................345
Transaction Directory overview.......................................................... 346
Adding and removing transaction boxes........................................... 348
Setting up call transfer ....................................................................... 352
Setting up greetings .......................................................................... 355
Setting up actions after greetings ..................................................... 357
Creating a delete-proof transaction box ........................................... 359
Sorting the transaction directory ....................................................... 360
Routing callers from a transaction box using one-key dialing ........... 361
Using special-purpose fax boxes ....................................................... 363
CONTENTS
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Setting up an interview box ............................................................... 368

Public interview box overview............................................................ 372
Voice detect box overview................................................................. 374
Setting up a voice detect box............................................................ 376
Using a voice detect box to limit phantom calls to the operator ...... 379
Language select box overview........................................................... 382
Adding a language select box ........................................................... 384
C H A P T E R 15
C H A P T E R 16
C H A P T E R 17
Fax library ...............................................................................389

Fax-on-demand overview................................................................... 390
Setting up the fax library.................................................................... 392
Changing the fax library menu........................................................... 399
Creating a fax catalog ........................................................................ 400
Creating a custom fax-on-demand cover sheet................................. 401
Sending fax library documents from the console .............................. 404
Routing callers to the fax library ........................................................ 406
Setting up automatic fax transmittal.................................................. 408
Using one-key dialing for fax-on-demand ......................................... 410
Building fax library menus with one-key dialing ................................ 412
Voice prompts.........................................................................415
The system conversation.................................................................... 416
System conversation design............................................................... 418
Location of system prompts............................................................... 422
Setting up on-hold prompts............................................................... 424
Listening to a recording ..................................................................... 427
Making a recording ............................................................................ 428
Copying or appending a recording to a voice field........................... 429
Deleting recordings and prompts...................................................... 431
Backing up a recording ...................................................................... 432
Recovering recordings and prompts ................................................. 433
Phone integration setup..........................................................435
Switch Setup screen page 1 overview ............................................... 436
Phone system options ........................................................................ 438
Special dialing characters................................................................... 439
Selecting integration options............................................................. 440
Using an outdial access number ........................................................ 447
Redirecting extension numbers ......................................................... 449
Other phone system options ............................................................. 452

Changing message waiting indicator and
touchtone settings ............................................................................. 456
Limiting the number of ports on hold................................................ 459
Controlling the call-holding message cycle ....................................... 460
Setting up constant message count................................................... 462
Testing call progress .......................................................................... 466
Changing the voice detection setting................................................ 470
Setting up live record......................................................................... 474
Enabling callers to send cut-through pages ...................................... 476
C H A P T E R 18
C H A P T E R 19
Reports ...................................................................................483
Using reports to monitor your system ............................................... 484
Evaluating voice messaging system usage ........................................ 488
Analyzing port usage ........................................................................ 490
Using Multisite Messaging reports .................................................... 491
Using directory information ............................................................... 492
Using call log information .................................................................. 496
Using the error log ............................................................................. 500
Monitoring wake-up calls ................................................................... 503
Using the hotel guests report ............................................................ 506
Troubleshooting......................................................................509
Troubleshooting overview ................................................................. 510
The system key................................................................................... 512
Upgrade issues................................................................................... 514
Delayed messages ............................................................................. 515
Delays in message notification........................................................... 518
Disk full error messages ..................................................................... 519
Touchtone sensitivity.......................................................................... 520
General tone detection...................................................................... 521
Voice messaging computer hardware components
and peripherals .................................................................................. 523
Troubleshooting networking, TeLANophy, and e-mail
integration.......................................................................................... 528
Troubleshooting Hospitality............................................................... 535
CONTENTS
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Troubleshooting the ActiveFax package ........................................... 544

Multisite Messaging troubleshooting ................................................ 550
Troubleshooting remote maintenance .............................................. 554
C H A P T E R 20
Training ...................................................................................557
Training overview ............................................................................... 558
Training subscribers ........................................................................... 559
Training operators and receptionists ................................................. 565
Training hotel staff ............................................................................. 566
Training system managers ................................................................. 568
Training for recording greetings and prompts .................................. 569
Training checklist................................................................................ 571
Training memo ................................................................................... 572
C H A P T E R 21
Glossary ..................................................................................575
C H A P T E R 22
Index .......................................................................................591
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R 1
Introduction
About this guide................................................... 2
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
About this guide
The System Management Guide contains

instructions for setting up, maintaining,
and customizing your voice messaging
system.
Before you use this guide, the voice messaging software should be installed on a computer by following the instructions in the
Installation Guide.
Keep this guide near the voice messaging
computer so that it is accessible to anyone
performing administration tasks. This guide
also is available as a PDF file on the Repartee compact disc. Acrobat Reader is
required to access the PDF file and can be
installed from your product disc.
This guide assumes you have a working
knowledge of the OS/2 operating system
and its conventions. For help, see the documentation that came with your system.
New system managers

If you are new to this voice messaging system, see Chapter 2, System overview, for
an overview of the systems basic concepts
and of the day-to-day system management
tasks.
How to use this guide

The chapters of this guide follow the order
in which the voice messaging system
screens appear, and are divided into discrete topics related to the tasks you perform
for each screen.
Each topic provides conceptual information, procedures, related screens, field
descriptions, and field values. Procedures
provide instructions on how to accomplish
a particular task. The field descriptions provide detailed information about each field
and what field value you can enter in it.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
Conventions
Other documentation
This guide uses the following conventions:
These resources can help you learn more

about working with your voice messaging
system:
User input
Information that the user types appears
in a font different from the body of the
text. For example,
Installation Guide: Contains instructions for installing the voice messaging

software, instructions for system setup,
and a list of the software versions newest features. A PDF file of this guide is
also available on the Repartee compact
disc.
System Conversation Guide (available as

a PDF file only): Contains tables of the
system conversations prompts and
phrases.
User Guide: Contains detailed instructions for subscribers about accessing

their accounts and checking and sending messages.
Field Help: The voice messaging system

has field-specific Help for entering data
or values in a field. Whenever you are
unsure of what to enter in the current
field, press F1.
Third-party documentation: You can

find information for third-party electronic devices in the manufacturers
documentation included in the Repartee package. Do not use a third-party
manufacturers documentation to
install, upgrade, or manage Repartee.
Refer only to Repartee documentation
to install, upgrade, and manage
Repartee.
Type msgorder and press ENTER.

Key names
Key names appear in all capital letters.
For example, CTRL+PAGE DOWN.
NOTE
A Note contains information that supplements the main text but is not essential to the understanding of the text. A
Note may supply information that
applies only in special cases.
See also
A See also provides references to other
topics related to the current topic.
CAUTION A Caution advises users that
failure to avoid or to take a specific
action may lead to unwanted results.
WARNING! A Warning advises users that
failure to avoid or to take a specific
action will result in physical harm to the
user, damage to the hardware, or loss of
data.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
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System overview
Introduction .......................................................... 6
Basic concepts...................................................... 8
System IDs .......................................................... 12
System manager overview................................. 18
Signing in and signing out ................................ 21
Establishing and terminating a
local connection ................................................. 22
Moving between screens .................................. 24
Moving within a screen...................................... 25
System information changes
by phone and console ....................................... 26
Shutting down and restarting the system ........ 28
System setup ...................................................... 30
CHAPTER 2: SYSTEM OVERVIEW
Introduction
By managing all types of communication in

one placea universal mailboxthe Repartee voice messaging system simplifies the
entire messaging process and gives you the
flexibility to access voice, fax, and e-mail
messages from almost anywhere. With
many different options and feature packages, Repartee can be customized for
almost any voice messaging application.
The Banner screen
System date and time
This chapter introduces basic system concepts, explains the role of the system manager, and describes how to sign in and out of
the system and how to navigate the voice
messaging system.
Current mode (such as Day or Night)
Amount of disk space available for

recording messages
Port setting and status information
System screens
Depending on your systems features, the
voice messaging system consists of some or
all of the following main screens:
Banner screen
Application screen
Personal Directory screen
Groups screen
Transaction Directory screen
Fax Library screen
Remote Network Site screen
Voice Prompt Editor screen
Switch Setup screen
Hotel Guests screen
Each screen contains one or more pages of

information.
You see the Banner screen before you sign

in to the voice messaging system. The Banner screen gives a quick overview of the current state of your system. The following
information is displayed at the top of the
screen:
A list of available function keys and their

actions is displayed at the bottom of the
screen.
The Banner screen field descriptions are on
page 19 of this guide.
The other main screens are discussed in
succeeding chapters.
INTRODUCTION
Banner screen
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Basic concepts
This section describes basic concepts that

will be helpful to you in using the voice
messaging system.
System users
There are three types of system users: subscribers, guests, and unidentified callers.
Subscribers
A subscriber is an enrolled user of the
voice messaging system. Enrolled users
have set up their voice mailboxes using
the first-time enrollment conversation,
or they have been enrolled by a system
manager. Each subscriber has a voice
mailbox which includes an extension ID
and a personal ID.
A subscriber can own transaction boxes,
interview boxes, and message groups.
The subscriber can also host guests.
When you delete a subscriber, the voice
messaging system deletes everything the
subscriber owns, as well as the guests
whom the subscriber is hosting. The
exception is open message groups.
When a subscriber is deleted, any open
message groups that the subscriber
owns are reassigned to SYSTEM. You
may then assign these groups to other
subscribers.
See also
System IDs .................................................. 12
Changing the owner of an open message
group......................................................... 331
Guests
Subscribers may want to provide a more
personal interaction through the voice
messaging system for certain individuals, such as special clients.
These individuals can be enrolled as
guests of a subscriber. Then when they
call in to the system and enter their personal ID, they can be greeted by name
and can exchange regular or urgent messages with their host subscriber. A guest
can also be made a member of a private
message group owned by their host subscriber. If you have a multilingual system, you can specify the language a
guest hears when they call in.
Unidentified callers
An unidentified caller is a subscriber,
guest, or nonsubscriber who accesses
the voice messaging system without
entering their personal ID. The unidentified caller has no system privileges and
hears a different system conversation
than a caller who enters their personal
ID.
BASIC CONCEPTS
The system conversation

The system conversation is the collection of
prerecorded questions, choices, and
responses that the system plays to guide
callers through the voice messaging system.
The normal subscriber system conversation
proceeds through a series of four actions
each time a subscriber calls into the system:
Check new messages
Leave messages
Review old messages
Change setup options
For each of these actions, subscribers hear a

menu of options. Subscribers enter the
number associated with the option to perform a particular task.
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BASIC CONCEPTS
Transaction boxes
Transaction boxes are the building blocks of
the voice messaging system. A transaction
box is a set of instructions that tells the system what to do when a call reaches that system ID.
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How you use transaction boxes can be as

simple or as complex as you want. Some
organizations use transaction boxes to
route callers to different departments, or to
provide morning, afternoon, and evening
greetings. Other organizations use transaction boxes to play detailed audiotext messages, route callers to other submenus, or
route callers to interview boxes.
BASIC CONCEPTS
The transfer-greeting-action structure

The call transfer-greeting-action after
greeting structure tells the system what to
do if a call is not answered. Throughout the
systemwhether for individual mailboxes
or complex transaction boxesyou can
specify the transfer-greeting-action
options.
When a call enters the voice messaging system, the system first tries to transfer the
call. If the call is unanswered, or if call
transfer is set to No, the system plays the
greeting specified in the Greeting section.
The settings in the Action section of the box
determine what happens nextfor example, the system might route the call to the
operator, take a message, or route the call to
another box.
How the transfer-greeting-action structure works

A call comes into the box
Greeting
. . . it plays the greeting for the

box. . .
Action
The system tries to transfer to

an extension. . .
Transfer
. . . and if no touchtone keys

are pressed, the system
performs an action, such as
routing the caller to the public
interview box
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System IDs
A system ID is a unique number that the

voice messaging system uses to identify a
subscriber, guest, transaction box, voice
detect box, or interview box. System IDs are
generally numbers that callers can dial to
access subscriber extensions and mailboxes, and are used to link boxes for
advanced call routing and audiotext. Therefore, no two items can have the same system ID.
Before assigning system IDs:
Estimate what kind and how many system IDs you need.
Design a simple, easy-to-use system ID

numbering plan and use it consistently.
All system IDs should contain the same
number of digits.
Assign system IDs according to numbers

rather than letters. If assigned by letter,
both SANDY and RANDY, for example,
would have 72639 as their system ID
number. And, because no two items can
have the same system ID, the voice messaging system cannot distinguish
between the two items.
The number of system IDs you require

determines how many digits your IDs
should have. The table on page 13 shows
you how many unique IDs are available for
a particular numbering plan. Be sure to
allow ranges of unused system IDs for
future system expansion, including new
subscribers, transaction boxes, interview
boxes, and subscribers guests.
The table on page 14 shows the different
types of system IDs used by the voice messaging system.
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SYSTEM IDS
How to determine the number of unique IDs for your ID numbering plan
Number of digits in each ID
Number of unique IDs

(assumes operator box ID is 0)
90
900
9,000
90,000
900,000
9,000,000
90,000,000
900,000,000
10
9,000,000,000
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SYSTEM IDS
How the system listens for system IDs

The system listens for system IDs on a digitby-digit basis. When a caller enters an ID,
the system examines the first digit to see if it
is a valid system ID. If not, the system listens
to the second digit and checks to see if that
combination matches a valid ID. This process is repeated for every digit until a match
is found or there are no more digits to
check.
This method of listening for system IDs provides quick responses because the system
goes directly to the first available match.
However, you cannot have a long ID that
begins with digits that match a shorter ID.
For example, you cannot have both 234 and
2345 as system IDs. You can avoid this situation by having all system IDs contain the
same number of digits.
Types of system IDs

ID
Identifies
How used
Personal ID
Subscriber or guest
Identifies the caller to the system and

allows subscribers to listen to messages,
leave two-way messages for others, and
change their setup options. Guests use
the personal ID to exchange two-way
messages with their hosts. The personal
ID is usually created by adding at least
one extra digit (for example, 9) to the
front of each individuals extension ID.
Extension ID
A subscribers mailbox
Callers enter the extension to reach a

subscriber. The extension ID usually
matches the phone extension number,
but if two subscribers share the same
physical phone extension, they will have
two different extension IDs.
Box ID
Transaction boxes
Interview boxes
Voice detect boxes
Operator box
Fax boxes
Callers enter these IDs to reach a

particular box. Box IDs are also used for
automatic routing of calls and in onekey dialing menus.
Fax ID
Public fax box
Calls are routed to this box by using the

fax ID.
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Types of system IDs, continued

ID
Identifies
How used
Directory ID
Directory menus and

directory groups
Callers using numeric directory

assistance enter the directory ID to
access a department or individual.
Directory IDs are also used to
automatically route calls.
Numbered groups ID Message groups
Subscribers use this ID to send a

message to a numbered message group.
Automatic directory
ID
When the automatic directory ID is

stated in the opening greeting, callers
can use it to reach the systems directory
of subscribers.
Automatic (alphabetic)
directory assistance
NOTE
A security code is not a system ID. A security code is created by the subscriber, is
known only to the subscriber, and is used in
conjunction with the personal ID to
enhance the security of the voice messaging
system.
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SYSTEM IDS
Internal IDs
Default system IDs
There may be occasions when you want to

prevent callers from dialing a system ID
directly. You can make an ID internal, or
hidden, by using a $ (dollar sign) as the first
character of the ID. The $ cannot be entered
from a phone.
The voice messaging system comes with

certain default system IDs already set up for
you. If you decide to change any of these,
you must enter the new ID in all the screens
where the old ID appears.
The most common use of an internal ID is

for routing callers to voice detect boxes,
transaction boxes, or interview boxes. For
example, the system comes with a public
interview box that has the system ID $PM.
The $ (dollar sign) prevents callers from
entering the public interview box directly,
but they can be routed to it automatically
when the operator is not available.
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The table on page 17 lists all default system

IDs and the screens where they can be
found.
SYSTEM IDS
Default system IDs and their screen location

Default system ID
Used by
Location
OPEN
Opening box
Application screen page 3
0 (zero)
System operator
9696
Default system manager

Sandy Simmons, extension ID
72639 (SANDY)
Default system manager

Sandy Simmons, personal ID
9555
Guest of Sandy Simmons,

Les Larson, personal ID
555
Automatic (alphabetic) directory Application screen page 9

assistance
411
Departments box
700
Sales box
800
Technical support box
$_FAXBOX
Public fax box
$PM
Public interview box
$VOICE
Voice detect box
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System manager overview
As a system manager, you are responsible

for the day-to-day management of the voice
messaging system. You most likely will
answer questions about the system, as well
as add and train new subscribers. Periodically, you may also need to update greetings
or back up the systems database.
Confirming installed system options
Protecting your system and data
To confirm installed system options
Routine backups can protect your system

and data from an unrecoverable system failure. To back up the system, see Chapter 7,
Backing up the voice messaging software,
in the Installation Guide.
A tape backup package is available for purchase with the voice messaging system. To
install a tape backup system, see Chapter 9,
Installing a tape backup system, in the
Installation Guide.
System options are the optional packages

that you can purchase separately to work
with the voice messaging system. To verify
which optional packages are installed, perform the following procedure.
1 Go to the Banner screen and press F5.

2 In the Options section, confirm that
the appropriate codes are listed for the
installed system options. Refer to the following table for the codes for all system
options.
System options
Code
Phone system integration INT

E-Mail Integration
EMail
Remote maintenance
Hospitality
HVM
You can maintain the voice messaging system remotely by using a second, off-site
computer. An optional remote maintenance
package may be included with the voice
messaging system. To learn more about
remote maintenance, see Chapter 18,
Remote maintenance, in the Installation
Guide.
PMS Integration
PMS
ActiveFax
FOD, FM
Multisite Messaging
AMIS,
PLUSNET
Feature Set Integration
FS
Dial Pulse Detection
DPD
VB-PC Integration
VBPC
Serial Integration
SIO
OAI Integration
OAI
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Port status fields The numbered fields at the

upper left of the screen display the voice messaging port numbers and each ports current status
or, when available, its status setting. The current
status changes as ports handle calls.
Insert indicator When the insert indicator

appears just below the date and time, typed characters are inserted into a line. Otherwise, they
overwrite existing characters. Press INSERT to
enable or disable this action.
Port selector (>>) The double arrow indicates

which port number is selected when you press F3.
You select a port to change it to or from local connect status. Local connect status lets you record
greetings and prompts. Only 12 ports are shown
at one time.
Recording time The number of hours and minutes of recording time available for new messages
is displayed. For example, 1:15 indicates that the
voice messaging system has 1 hour, 15 minutes of
recording time remaining. Depending on the size
of the voice messaging computer's hard disk, the
total time available for message storage can
range from a few hours to hundreds of hours.
Date and time The date and time are controlled by the voice messaging computer's internal clock. Keep the date and time accurate,
because the voice messaging system uses this
information to indicate the time and date of each
message and report.
Mode The current mode appears between the
time and the date. You see either DAY or
NIGHT, depending on whether the active
schedule (which always follows Schedule #1) is in
day mode or night mode.
Function keys The list of function keys and their

actions are displayed along the bottom of the
screen. Different screens have different combinations of keys and actions.
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Caring for the voice messaging

computer
Protect the voice messaging computer from
potential damage by following these guidelines:
Do not move the computer while the

power is on. Be sure to follow the shutdown procedure to avoid damage to the
hard drive.
Use a surge suppressor or a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to protect

against sudden variations in electrical
power.
Do not block the computers cooling

vents.
Be sure that the computers cables are

located where they cant be stepped on,
tripped over, or damaged.
Setting up and customizing the system

The chapters in this guide follow the order
of the voice messaging system screens. Procedures appear with their related screens,
field descriptions, and field values. Set up
and customize your system by following the
order of the voice messaging screens.
Reports and troubleshooting

The voice messaging system has a variety of
reports available for system maintenance
and tracking. See Using reports to monitor
your system on page 484 for more information.
This guide also provides lists of corrective
actions for problems you may encounter
with your voice messaging system. See
Troubleshooting overview on page 510 for
more information.
Training
As a system manager, you may be required
to train subscribers, system operators, hotel
staff, and other system managers. See
Training overview on page 558 for guidelines and suggestions on training these different audiences.
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Signing in and signing out
The voice messaging system requires that

you sign in to the system as a system manager before you can change any system
settings.
Many of the procedures in this guide
assume that you have already signed in
to the system.
If the voice messaging system has been shut
down, restart it and then perform the following procedure to sign in to the system.
To sign in to the system
1 From the OS/2 desktop, press

CTRL+ESC. In the Windows list, select
Voice mail for OS/2. Or, if the Awaiting
a Key screen saver appears, press any
key.
2 At the Banner screen, press F2.
3 Type your system manager ID (given to
you by the technician who installed your
system), and press ENTER. If you are a
system manager, your personal ID
serves as your system manager ID.
4 If prompted, type your security code
and press ENTER.
To sign out of the system
1 Press ESC until you see the message Are

you sure you want to sign out to the
Banner screen?
2 Type y to confirm that you want to
sign out.
See also
Shutting down and restarting the system......28
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Establishing and terminating a local connection
A local connection is a direct audio connection to the system through the phone line,
achieved by calling the port directly from
the voice messaging system. This type of
connection is necessary for recording greetings and prompts.
When establishing a local connection, consider using a phone near the console, so
that you can record greetings and use the
console keyboard at the same time.
To establish a connection, perform the next
procedure, To establish a local connection.
After you have established a connection, if
you hang up the phone between recordings,
you end the call and partially terminate the
connection. If the phone is mistakenly hung
up between recordings, press F4 to release
the port and then perform the next procedure, To establish a local connection, to
re-establish the connection.
When there is no activity for approximately
6 minutes, the local connection automatically disconnects. To terminate a local connection yourself, perform the procedure To
terminate a local connection on page 23.
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To establish a local connection
1 Call the voice messaging system using a

phone located near the console. You
must be able to speak into the phone
and reach the console keyboard at the
same time.
2 In the port status section, in the upperleft corner of the Banner screen, note
which port takes the call.
If you do not see the port answering your
call and the voice messaging system has
more than 12 ports, press CTRL+F3 to
view the port status for the additional
ports.
The message RINGING appears, followed by DAY ANSWER or NIGHT
ANSWER, when the voice messaging
system answers the line. If you are on a
busy system, you may have to wait until
a port is free.
3 After the system answers, press F3
repeatedly until the port selector (>>)
appears next to the port that answered
your call.
4 Press F4 to connect locally. The port status changes to Local connect, and any
message the system is playing stops.
ESTABLISHING AND TERMINATING A LOCAL CONNECTION
To terminate a local connection
1 Press F4 to end the local connection.

2 Hang up the phone.
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Moving between screens
The voice messaging system is organized

into six or more main screens, depending
on the features of your system. Each screen
contains one or more pages.
The bottom section of each screen displays
a list of the most frequently used navigational keystrokes for that page or screen.
The following table lists simple commands
that let you move from screen to screen.
Navigational keystrokes for moving between screens

Press
To go to
CTRL+A
CTRL+D
CTRL+G
Groups screen
CTRL+T
CTRL+P
CTRL+S
Switch Setup screen
CTRL+N
CTRL+F
Fax Library screen
CTRL+H
Hotel Guests screen
F5
Previous screen
F6
Next screen
ESC
Sign-out dialog box
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Moving within a screen
Each screen in the voice messaging system

may contain one or more pages of related
fields. Use the following keys to move
between fields and between pages of a
screen.
Navigational keystrokes for moving within a screen
Press
To
TAB
Go to the next field or menu option.
SHIFT+TAB
Go to the previous field or menu option.
PAGE UP
Go to the previous page.
PAGE DOWN
Go to the next page.
SPACEBAR
Turn on or off the current option on the

Access Code Options screen.
ENTER
Save the current entry and move to the

next field.
ESC
Undo a change before leaving a field.
CTRL+K
Erase all data in the field to the right of

the cursor.
DOWN
ARROW
Go to the next line.
UP ARROW
Go to the previous line.
RIGHT
ARROW
Go to the next field.
LEFT ARROW
Go to the previous field.
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System information
changes by phone and console
You can change most system information
both from the console and from the phone.
System information changes by console

Within each page of each screen, information is organized, entered, and changed in
fields. In most cases, the fields are named.
The field you are working in is highlighted.
You can change the information in any field
by typing over it. When you leave a field, the
data in that field is saved.
If you want to undo changes before leaving
a field, press ESC. The original information
in that field is restored.
The status line at the bottom of every screen
describes the field values that are available
for the highlighted field.
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System information changes by phone

As system manager, you can change the system settings without signing in at a console.
Call the system and sign in with your personal ID and security code. After you sign
in, you can check your messages, change
your setup options, or access the system
manager options. Menu users can go
directly to the system manager conversation by pressing 0 (zero) on the main menu.
The system manager conversation consists
of five questions or menu options, which
are shown in the table on page 27. Each
question has a shortcut key, shown in
parentheses next to the question. To skip to
that set of options immediately, press the
shortcut key during the system manager
conversation.
SYSTEM INFORMATION CHANGES BY PHONE AND CONSOLE
Phone menu options

Menu option
Meaning
Would you like to change a

mailbox? ( 4 )
Lets you add a new mailbox, determine whether a

mailbox has a security code, delete security codes, and
delete a mailbox. If you delete a mailbox, all of the
transaction boxes, guests, private groups, interview boxes,
and messages owned by that mailbox are also deleted.
Would you like to change the

opening greetings? ( 5 )
Lets you switch to or from alternate mode, and change

the day, night, or alternate greetings of opening greeting
boxes.

system schedule? ( 6 )
Lets you change the system clock and date settings, and
change schedule #1.
Would you like to hear system

information? ( 7 )
Lets you hear information about the software version

you are using; the system key serial number; the
available recording time; the system time, date, and
mode; the number of active voice messaging ports; and
the driver and firmware versions.

operator settings? ( 8 )
Lets you assign the extension that the operators mailbox

or the public fax box is transferred to. Also, you can
choose to have the public fax box ask for voice annotation,
and have a public message left when a fax arrives.
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Shutting down and restarting the system
Some maintenance procedures require

shutting down and restarting the voice messaging software. After the voice messaging
software is shut down, the system disconnects each port when the ports current call
is finished. The OS/2 desktop includes an
icon for restarting the system.
Some maintenance procedures may also
require shutting down and restarting OS/2.
The OS/2 desktop includes an icon for performing a shutdown. OS/2 properly closes
system files and prepares for the shutdown.
If you have programs running, OS/2 will
prompt you to exit those programs properly
before it shuts down.
If the software does not restart properly, or if
the voice messaging system is behaving
erratically, you may need to shut down and
restart OS/2.
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To shut down and restart the voice messaging

software
1 At the Banner screen, press ESC.

2 Type y to exit the voice messaging software and disconnect all lines.
3 Type your system manager ID and press
ENTER. The system shuts down each
port as it becomes available, and closes
the software.
4 At the OS/2 desktop, double-click the
Restart Voice Mail icon. If you do not see
the OS/2 desktop, press ALT+ESC
repeatedly until it appears.
SHUTTING DOWN AND RESTARTING THE SYSTEM
To shut down and restart OS/2
1 Exit the voice messaging software using

steps 1 through 3 in the procedure To
shut down and restart the voice messaging software on page 28.
2 On the OS/2 desktop, double-click the
Shut Down OS/2 icon. If you do not see
the OS/2 desktop, press ALT+ESC
repeatedly until it appears.
3 If you have programs running, OS/2 will
prompt you to exit those programs
properly before it shuts down.
4 When the shutdown process is complete, restart the computer by pressing
CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
NOTE
The voice messaging system should
restart automatically after the OS/2
computer is rebooted. If the voice messaging system does not restart, at the
OS/2 desktop, double-click the Restart
Voice Mail icon. If you do not see the
OS/2 desktop, press ALT+ESC repeatedly
until it appears.
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System setup
The following checklist outlines the steps

required for setting up and customizing
your voice messaging system.
Steps for setting up and customizing the voice messaging system

1 Complete the site information fields.
See Chapter 3, Site information, on
page 31.
8 Set up Multisite Messaging.

See Chapter 10, Multisite messaging,
on page 189.
2 Set up the opening greeting.

See Chapter 4, Opening greeting, on
page 47
9 Set up Hospitality.
See Chapter 11, Hospitality, on
page 221.
3 Set up the operator setup.

See Chapter 5, Operator setup, on
page 65.
10 Set up subscribers.
See Chapter 12, Personal Directory, on
page 275.
4 Set up the system schedules.

See Chapter 6, System schedules, on
page 79.
11 Set up groups.
See Chapter 13, Groups, on page 325.
5 Set up the default subscriber.

See Chapter 7, Default subscriber, on
page 93.
6 Set up the message management and
storage options.
See Chapter 8, Message management
and storage, on page 137.
7 Set up fax mail.
See Chapter 9, Fax mail setup, on
page 171.
See also
Installation Guide: Installation overview, in
Chapter 2
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12 Set up transaction boxes.

See Chapter 14, Transaction boxes, on
page 345.
13 Set up a fax library.
See Chapter 15, Fax library, on
page 389.
14 Customize the system conversation.
See Chapter 16, Voice prompts, on
page 415.
15 Set up the phone system integration.
See Chapter 17, Phone integration
setup, on page 435.
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Site information overview.................................. 32

Completing the site information....................... 34
Setting up ports.................................................. 38
Selecting a language for a port ........................ 40
Setting up special port options ........................ 42
Setting up the system for DID........................... 44
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Site information overview
The system manager completes Application

screen pages 1 and 2 to record basic information and settings that are needed to set
up and maintain the voice messaging
system.
Application screen page 1 provides easy
access to basic reference information about
the system. This page functions much as the
systems registration page because it
keeps important traffic and contact information in one place.
The fields on Application screen page 2 provide the settings for each voice messaging
system port. Four ports appear at a time.
This page has two sections:
The top section of the screen provides

fields for setting the status, the number
of rings before answering a call, and the
schedule for each port.
The bottom section of the screen provides the fields for setting the default
system language, a specific ports language, and any needed special port
options.
The setup steps at right show the order in

which to set the fields in these two screens
and direct you to topics in this chapter for
specific setup procedures.
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Setup steps for completing Application

screen pages 1 and 2
1 Complete the sites information.
See Completing the site information
on page 34.
2 Set up the system ports.
See Setting up ports on page 38.
3 Set up ports to support multiple
languages.
The default language is used by all ports
unless otherwise specified. To set up a
port separately for a different language,
see Selecting a language for a port on
page 40.
4 Set up special port options.
Special port options are required for particular phone system hardware and may
be required for TeLANophy. For details,
see Setting up special port options on
page 42.
5 Set up the system for a dedicated
direct-inward-dial (DID) unit.
If the phone system integration uses
dedicated DID units, set up the voice
messaging system to support these units.
For details, see Setting up the system for
DID on page 44.
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4. Day calls answered: All trunks
5. All ports busy action: Ring-until-answered
Calls/day: 500
Night calls: All trunks
----------------------------- Access Numbers --------------------------------6. Trunk pilot #: 555-555-5555

# of trunks answered: 12
Alternate trunk #s: 800-555-5555
7. Voice port stations
Pilot #: 500
Station numbers: 500-508
8. Fax port stations

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12. Day/night schedule
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A/D
1
1
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------13. Language:
System language: US
14. Opening line ID:
15. Special port options:
US
OPEN
T1
US
US
ES
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
SPAN
T1
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Completing the site information
Application screen page 1 holds basic reference information about the site and the
voice messaging system. The settings of the
fields on lines 1 through 6 have no effect on
the voice messaging system and are for
informational purposes only. However, the
fields on lines 7 and 8 do affect the system
and must contain accurate information.
The phone system administrator typically
sets the fields on this page. If any fields are
not set, ask the phone system administrator
to provide the information so you can enter
it by using the procedure To complete the
site information fields on page 35.
An illustration of Application screen page 1
and descriptions of all fields are available on
page 36.
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COMPLETING THE SITE INFORMATION
To complete the site information fields
1 On Application screen page 1, in the

Site name field, type the organizations
name.
8 In the Trunk pilot # field, type the

phone number that external callers dial
to call the voice messaging system.
2 In the Contact and Phone# fields,

type the system managers name and
phone number.
9 In the # of trunks answered field, type

the number of trunks that the voice
messaging system answers.
3 In the Total trunks/stations fields,

type the number of external phone
numbers and the number of stations
available on the phone system.
10 In the Alternate trunk #s field, type an

alternate phone number that external
callers can use to access the system.
4 In the Calls/day field, type the average

number of daily calls that the organization receives.
5 In the Day calls answered field, type
the appropriate value.
6 In the Night calls field, type the appropriate value.
7 In the All ports busy action field, type
the appropriate value.
11 On line 7 after Voice port stations, in

the Pilot # field, type the appropriate
number.
12 On line 7 after Voice port stations, in
the Station numbers field, type a
phone system extension for each line
connected to a voice messaging voice
port.
13 On line 8 after Fax port stations, in the
Station numbers field, type a phone
system extension for each line connected to a voice messaging fax port.
Continued
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Ans
Ans
Ans
A/D
5.
6.
7.
8.
Ans
Dial
A/D
Msg
10:30am
DAY 20-Aug-02
INSERT
System manager
E A S Y M A D E
1. Site name: Organization's name

2. Contact: Organization's system manager
Page 1 of 12
Phone#: 555-555-5555
----------------------------- Calls Answered --------------------------------3. Total trunks/stations: 12 / 24

4. Day calls answered: All trunks
5. All ports busy action: Ring-until-answered
Calls/day: 500
Night calls: All trunks
----------------------------- Access Numbers --------------------------------6. Trunk pilot #: 555-555-5555

# of trunks answered: 12
Alternate trunk #s: 800-555-5555
7. Voice port stations
Pilot #: 500
8. Fax port stations
Site name Accepts the name of the organization

at which the voice messaging system is installed.
Contact Accepts the name of the system
manager.
Phone# Accepts the phone number of the system manager.
Total trunks/stations Accepts the number of
phone system trunks (the phone system external
lines) and stations (the phones used at the site).
Calls/day Accepts the average number of calls
the phone system handles each day.
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Day calls answered Accepts one of the following values. These values indicate which calls the
voice messaging system answers based on how
the phone system is programmed.
A (All trunks) The system answers all incoming calls.
S (Some calls) An operator answers calls on a
set of external lines, and the voice messaging
system answers overflow calls or incoming
calls on a different set of external lines.
F (Forwarded calls) An operator answers all
incoming calls first, then forwards specific calls
to the voice messaging system.
Night calls Accepts the same values as the Day

calls answered field. These values indicate which
calls the voice messaging system answers, based
on how the phone system is programmed.
Alternate trunk #s Accepts any other published phone numbers that external callers use to
reach the voice messaging system, such as 800
numbers and service numbers.
All ports busy action Accepts a value for how

the voice messaging system handles incoming
calls when all ports are busy, depending on the
programming features of the phone system.
Voice port stations pilot # Accepts the internal extension or phone number that subscribers
dial using a system phone to access the voice
messaging system. This number is also known as
the master hunt group number.
R (Ring until answered) When all voice messaging system ports are busy, an incoming call
continues to ring until a port becomes available.
B (Busy tone) When all voice messaging system ports are busy, incoming callers hear a
busy signal.
O (Operator forward) When all voice messaging system ports are busy, an incoming call
is forwarded to an operator.
Trunk pilot # Accepts the phone number that
external callers use to reach the voice messaging
system. Leave this field blank if the voice messaging system answers only forwarded calls.
Voice port station numbers Accepts the

extension number of each phone system line that
is connected to a voice messaging port (excluding
fax and modem ports), in ascending order, separated by commas. If the numbers are sequential,
type a range separated by a hyphen.
Fax port station numbers Accepts the extension numbers of all phone system lines that are
connected to a voice messaging fax port, in
ascending order, separated by commas. If the
numbers are sequential, type a range separated
by a hyphen.
# of trunks answered Accepts the number of

trunks that the voice messaging system answers.
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Setting up ports
A port is a single incoming phone line

answered by the voice messaging system.
Voice messaging system ports can answer
incoming calls, dial out, or answer directinward-dial (DID) calls. To set up each ports
actions, see the first procedure, To set up a
ports actions.
To set up the number of times an incoming
call rings before the voice messaging system
answers a specific port, see the second procedure, To set up the number of rings on
ports that answer calls. Use this setting
only on ports that are set up to answer calls
and when the voice messaging system
serves as a backup for the operator.
To set up the number of rings on ports that

answer calls
1 Go to line 11 on Application screen

page 2.
2 In each ports field, type the number of
rings the system waits before the port
goes off hook, and press ENTER.
However, if your phone system administrator indicates that your phone system
uses pooled ringing, then type 0 (zero)
as the number of rings and press ENTER.
3 To display additional ports, press
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW or CTRL+LEFT
ARROW.
Each port uses the Day/night schedule

field to determine which system schedule to
follow. By default the system uses schedule
#1 on Application screen page 5. To set up
the schedules for the systems ports, see the
third procedure, To set up port schedules.
To set up port schedules
To set up a ports actions
2 For each port, type the number of the

schedule that you want to assign the
port to. For the schedule numbers, go to
Application screen page 5.

page 2.
2 For each port, type the appropriate value
that sets up the ports actions and press
ENTER.
ARROW.
See also
Setting up schedules.................................. 83
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page 2.

ARROW.
SETTING UP PORTS

E A S Y M A D E
Port 1
Port 2
Page 2 of 12
Port 3
Port 4
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------10. Port status:

Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
A/D
1
1
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------13. Language:
System language: US
US
OPEN
T1
US
US
ES
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
SPAN
T1
Port status Accepts one of the following values

to set the ports status. The status indicates how
the voice messaging system uses the port to
answer and route calls and to dial numbers for
outgoing calls.
A/D (Answer/dial) Answers incoming calls
and, when not answering calls, dials out to
activate message waiting indicators and to
deliver new messages.
A/L (Answer/lamp) Answers incoming calls
and, when not answering calls, dials out to
activate message waiting indicators.
A/M (Answer/messages) Answers incoming
calls and, when not answering calls, dials out
to deliver new messages.
<n>DID Only answers direct-inward-dial

(DID) calls. The number, between 0 and 9, represents the number of DID digits expected on
each port. Each port is programmed with the
same number in order for DID to function correctly.
Lamp Dials out to activate message waiting
indicators.
Msg Dials out to deliver new messages.
Rings to answer Accepts the number of times a
call rings before the voice messaging system
answers it.
Day/night schedule Accepts the number of the
schedule you want to attach to the port.
Ans (Answer) Answers incoming calls.

Busy Connects to dial tone. Use for testing or
to temporarily take a port off line.
Dial Dials out to activate message waiting
indicators and to deliver new messages.
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Selecting a language for a port
Ports can be set up individually for different

languages. Organizations can publish separate phone numbers for each language that
is installed.
To determine the languages that are installed
on the voice messaging system, see the first
procedure, To determine the languages
that are installed.
A multilingual voice messaging system
requires that a default language be specified
in the System language field. The default
language is the language that most callers
use. To set the default language, see the second procedure, To set up the default language.
To create a multilingual voice messaging
system, the system manager sets up ports
individually for an installed language (contact your dealer to install additional languages). To set a language for an individual
port, see the third procedure, To set up a
language for a port. Alternatively, the system manager may set up a multilingual
voice messaging system with language
select boxes.
Multilingual voice messaging systems need
an opening greeting box for each language
(the box is assigned to a port in the Opening line ID field on line 14). For details, see
Adding multiple opening greeting boxes
on page 60.
To determine the languages that are installed
1 At the command prompt, go to the subdirectory for prompts. Typically this

location is E:\Vmail\Prompt.
2 At the command prompt, type dir *.
and press ENTER. The two-letter subdirectory names that appear are the same
as the two-letter language codes listed in
the table on page 41.
To set up the default language
1 Confirm that the language you want to

set up is already installed. Contact your
dealer to install additional languages.
page 2.
3 In the System language field, type the
two-letter language code for a language,
using the table on page 41, and press
ENTER.
To set up a language for a port
1 Confirm that the language you want to

set up is already installed. Contact your
dealer to install additional languages.
page 2.
3 Move the cursor to the field for the port
that you want to set up a language for.
See also
Adding a language select box .................. 384
40
4 Type the two-letter language code for a

language, using the table on page 41,
and press ENTER.
SELECTING A LANGUAGE FOR A PORT
Language codes
Language
Two-letter code
Language
Two-letter code
Danish
DK
Italian
IT
Dutch
NL
Japanese
JA
Australian English
AU
Brazilian Portuguese
PT
New Zealand English
NZ
Argentinian Spanish
AR
UK English
UK
Latin American Spanish LA
US English
US
Mexican Spanish
ES
Canadian French
FC
Madrid Spanish
ED
German
DE
Swedish
SE
Hebrew
HE

E A S Y M A D E
Port 1
Port 2
Page 2 of 12
Port 3
Port 4
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------10. Port status:

Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
A/D
1
1
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------13. Language:
System language: US
US
US
US
ES
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
SPAN
T1
Language Accepts the two-letter code for the

language that each port uses.
Opening Line ID Accepts the system ID for the

opening greeting box that answers this port.
System language Accepts the two-letter code

for the default language.
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Setting up special port options
Ports can be set up individually so that

incoming calls receive different call routing
and handling depending on the port. Line
15 of Application screen page 2 lets you set
these special options for each port.
If the system uses a TeLANophy package,
you might want to restrict TeLANophy from
using some voice messaging ports so that
they are available to answer incoming calls.
The No LAN connects setting for a port
prevents TeLANophy from using it. To set
the busiest ports to No LAN connects, see
the procedure, To restrict a port from use
by TeLANophy, on page 43.
If the system uses direct-inward-dial (DID)
lines, see Setting up the system for DID on
page 44 for details on setting up the system.
See also
Setting up the system for DID................... 44
Selecting integration options.................. 440
42
If the system uses one of the following features, see the procedure, To set up special
port options, on page 43.
Forwarded calls
Phone systems that forward calls to the
voice messaging system with the destination extension but do not indicate the
status of the call (such as unanswered or
busy) require the Forwarded calls setting for all ports. This setting is useful for
one-key dialing boxes, but is unavailable
for the opening greeting and is not the
recommended method. Instead, set forwarded calls with the F setting in the
Integration options field on Switch
Setup screen page 1.
T1 integration
Voice messaging systems that use T1
ports for dialing out require the T1 integration setting.
SETTING UP SPECIAL PORT OPTIONS
To restrict a port from use by TeLANophy
To set up special port options

page 2.

page 2.
2 Go to the field for the port on which you

want to prevent network-initiated
connections.
2 Go to the field for the port on which you

want to activate the setting.
3 Type f (Forwarded calls) or t (T1
integration) and press ENTER.
3 Type n (No LAN connects) and press

ENTER.
E A S Y M A D E
Port 1
Port 2
Page 2 of 12
Port 3
Port 4
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------10. Port status:

Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
A/D
1
1
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------13. Language:
System language: US
US
US
US
ES
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
OPEN
T1
SPAN
T1
Special port options Controls the way the

voice messaging system works with special phone
system hardware and other hardware. Accepts
one of the following values:
D (Digi-trap) Plays an A or D touchtone
when the voice messaging system answers a
call on the port. This touchtone signals the
Digi-Trap DID integration unit that the voice
messaging system is ready for it to download
the extension number or to end the call.
F (Forwarded calls) Does not transfer the call

to the first extension ID entered during a call
on the port.
N (No LAN connects) Restricts TeLANophy
from using these ports.
T (T1) Causes the voice messaging system to
check for loop current after dialing, which is
required on ports using T1 for dialing out.
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Setting up the system for DID
Dedicated direct-inward-dial (DID) units

are used on phone systems that have DID
lines and call forwarding capabilities, but
do not provide a follow-along ID for voice
messaging.
To set up a port for an integration with a phone

system with dedicated DID units

page 2.
When the voice messaging system is integrated with a phone system that has dedicated DID units, the voice messaging
system requires the <n>DID port setting.
With this integration, the voice messaging
system cannot support call transfer or dial
external phone numbers. See the first procedure, To set up a port for an integration
with a phone system with dedicated DID
units.
2 Go to the field for the port that you want

to dedicate to answering DID calls.
For ports that use dedicated DID units, the

voice messaging system requires the Digitrap special port options setting. See the
second procedure, To set up a port for a
dedicated DID unit, to set up the voice
messaging system to handle calls from DID
units.

page 2.
See also
Setting up special port options ................. 42
44
3 Type <n>DID where <n> represents

a number between 0 and 9, which is the
number of DID digits each port receives.
This number must be the same for each
port. Press ENTER to accept the setting.
To set up a port for a dedicated DID unit
2 Go to the field for the port where you

want to set up DID handling.
3 Type d (Digi-trap) and press ENTER.
SETTING UP THE SYSTEM FOR DID

E A S Y M A D E
Port 1
Port 2
Page 2 of 12
Port 3
Port 4
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------10. Port status:

Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|-------------13. Language:
System language: US
US
US
US
ES
OPEN
D
OPEN
OPEN
SPAN
Port status field Accepts settings to set up the

ports status. The status indicates how the voice
messaging system uses the port to answer and
route calls and to dial numbers for outgoing calls.
To set up the system for DID, use the following
setting:
<n>DID Only answers direct-inward-dial
(DID) calls. The number, between 0 and 9, represents the number of DID digits expected on
each port. Each port is programmed with the
same number in order for DID to function correctly.
Special port options Controls the way the

voice messaging system works with special phone
system hardware and other hardware. Type d for
Digi-trap.
D (Digi-trap) Plays an A or D touchtone
when the voice messaging system answers a
call on the port. The touchtone signals the
Digi-Trap DID integration unit that the voice
messaging system is ready for it to download
the extension number or to end the call.
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46
R 4
Opening greeting
Opening greeting overview .............................. 48

Changing the opening greeting setup ............ 50
Setting up greetings .......................................... 52
Setting up actions after greetings .................... 54
Routing callers with one-key dialing................. 56
Routing callers to a language select box......... 58
Adding multiple opening greeting boxes ....... 60
Setting up directory assistance options ........... 62
CHAPTER 4: OPENING GREETING
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Opening greeting overview
An opening greeting is the greeting the system plays for callers, and is the first thing
callers hear. The opening greeting recordings are stored in voice fields on Application
screen page 3 in an opening greeting box.
An opening box is a type of transaction box.
The opening box can store up to three greetings: a day greeting, a night greeting, and an
alternate greeting. Only a system manager
can record these greetings or switch among
them by phone. A system manager can also
record opening greetings at the system console by using a local connection.
See also
Establishing and terminating a local
connection.................................................. 22
Selecting a language for a port.................. 40
Transaction Directory overview.............. 346
48
The voice messaging system comes with a

default opening box that has the system ID
OPEN. Most systems use only one opening
greeting box, but you can add additional
ones for special purposes. For example, the
system can answer each port with a different opening greeting box. Additional opening greeting boxes are useful if the system
has more than one language. The system
can answer some ports with a greeting in
one language and the remaining ports in a
different language.
OPENING GREETING OVERVIEW

E A S Y M A D E
Page 3 of 12
16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

One-key delay: 0 seconds
---->Greeting------->Action -------------------------------------------------17. Day: 0:14
| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
| Nite: GotoID--> $PM
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------19. Restart IDs: DE GERMAN
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Changing the opening greeting setup
The voice messaging system has a default

setup for the opening greeting box. While
this setup lets the system function immediately, you can change the setup to better
meet the needs of your organization.
It is possible to have different greetings for
day and night mode. For example, you can
route daytime callers to the operator and
ask night callers to leave a message.
To change the name and system ID of the
opening box from the default values, see the
procedure To change the opening box
name and system ID on page 51.
Steps for changing the default opening

greeting setup
1 Change the greetings.
Record a name for the box and record the
day, night, and alternate greetings. See
Setting up greetings on page 52.
2 Set up actions after greetings.
Specify how the voice messaging system
responds when a caller does not press a
touchtone key during the greeting. See
Setting up actions after greetings on
page 54.
3 Route callers with one-key dialing, if
desired.
See Routing callers with one-key dialing on page 56.
4 If the system has more than one
language, and uses language select
boxes, set the Restart IDs.
See Routing callers to a language select
box on page 58.
5 Test the opening greeting box.
Call each port and confirm that the boxes
are set up to answer calls the way you
want.
See also
Adding multiple opening greeting boxes...60
Setting up directory assistance options ... 62
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CHANGING THE OPENING GREETING SETUP
To change the opening box name and system ID
1 Go to Application screen page 3.

2 In the Name field, type a new name for
the box.
3 In the System ID field, type a new system ID for the box.
NOTE
If you change the opening box system ID
from the default ID, OPEN, you must
enter the new ID in all screens where
this ID is referenced.

E A S Y M A D E
Page 3 of 12
16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name Accepts the name of the opening greeting box.
System ID Accepts the system ID for the opening greeting box.
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Setting up greetings
You change the opening greeting by recording over it. You may want to change the
greeting to announce upcoming sales,
changes in business hours, or seasonal
products, or to customize the opening
greeting box to give your callers additional
options.
It is possible to have different greetings for
day and night mode. You can also record an
alternate greeting, which can be used to
handle unforeseen events. For example, if
you are unable to open your business due to
a snowstorm, the system manager can turn
on the alternate greeting. The system manager can also update the alternate greeting
to reflect the current situation.
The voice fields in the Greeting section of
Application screen page 3 display how
many seconds the greetings last. If a field
contains 0:00, no greeting has been
recorded, and the system skips to the action
indicated in the fields in the Action section
of the screen.
You can use a local connection or a phone
to record the new greetings. For more information, see the topic Making a recording
on page 428.
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To set up greetings

2 On line 16 in the Voice name field,
record a name for the box.
3 On line 17 in the Day field, record a
day greeting.
4 In the Night field, record a night greeting.
5 In the Alt field, record an alternate
greeting (if applicable).
6 In the Active field, type the appropriate
value and press ENTER.
SETTING UP GREETINGS

E A S Y M A D E
Page 3 of 12
16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Voice name Accesses the recorded name for

the opening greeting box.
Day (Greeting) Accesses the day greeting for
the opening greeting box. The arrow indicates the
greeting currently in use. If the field contains 0:00,
no greeting has been recorded, and the voice
messaging system performs the action indicated
in the Action section of the screen.
Night (Greeting) Accesses the night greeting
for the opening greeting box. The arrow indicates
the greeting currently in use. If the field contains
0:00, no greeting has been recorded, and the
voice messaging system performs the action indicated in the Action section of the screen.
Alt (Alternate greeting) Accesses the alternate

greeting for the opening greeting box. The arrow
indicates the greeting currently in use. If the field
contains 0:00, no greeting has been recorded,
and the voice messaging system performs the
action indicated in the Action section of the
screen.
Active Accepts one of the following values,
which determine the greeting that plays when the
voice messaging system answers calls.
D (Day or night) Makes the standard day or
night greeting active (depending on which
mode the box's schedule is currently in).
A (Alternate) Makes the alternate greeting
active. When the alternate greeting is active, it
is used in both day and night modes.
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Setting up actions after greetings
If the caller does not press any touchtone

keys during the opening greeting, the system takes the action specified in the Action
section of Application screen page 3.
To set up actions after greetings

2 In the Action section, on line 17, in both
the Day and Night fields, type the
appropriate values and press ENTER.
3 If you typed g (Go to system ID) in
either field, then in the field to the right,
type the system ID that you want to
route the call to and press ENTER.
If you want to send the call to the public
interview box, type $PM.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
Public interview box overview ................ 372
54
SETTING UP ACTIONS AFTER GREETINGS

E A S Y M A D E
Page 3 of 12
16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Day (Action) Accepts one of the following values, which determine the action the voice messaging system performs after playing the greeting
during the day schedule.
Night (Action) Accepts the same values as the

Day field. The value determines what action the
voice messaging system performs after playing
the greeting during the night schedule.
S (Say good-bye) Plays a prompt asking

whether the caller needs further assistance,
pauses, says good-bye, and then disconnects.
O (Transfer to the operator) Routes the
caller to the operator box.
H (Hang up) Disconnects without saying
good-bye.
R (Restart) Returns the caller to the opening
greeting box.
G (Go to system ID) Routes the caller to
another system ID. If you choose this option,
you must enter an ID in the field immediately
to the right.
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Routing callers with one-key dialing
One-key dialing lets callers go to a particular location within the voice messaging system by pressing one key. For example, you
can quickly route callers from the opening
greeting box to directory assistance, subscribers extensions, transaction boxes,
voice detect boxes, language select boxes, or
interview boxes.
When a caller presses a digit that has a onekey dialing option programmed, the voice
messaging system will immediately act on
that digit. In the event that the one-key dialing conflicts with an extension ID, you can
specify an amount of time (in seconds) for
the system to pause and wait for the caller
to enter additional digits.
To route callers with one-key dialing

2 If necessary, rerecord the opening greeting message so that it describes the onekey dialing choices.
3 In the One-key dialing fields on line
18, type the system IDs that you want to
route callers to, and press ENTER after
each.
4 In the One-key delay field on line 16,
type 1 or 2, and press ENTER.
This field creates a 1- or 2-second pause
that lets callers bypass the one-key dialing options and enter system IDs.
5 In the Day and Night fields in the
Action section on line 17, type the value
for the voice messaging systems
response when a caller does not press a
key. Press ENTER.
This process is described in Setting up
actions after greetings on page 54.
For most situations, use the Transfer to
the operator action value. This value
indicates that the system transfers the
call to the operator when the caller
presses an incorrect key or does not
press a key. This value also transfers callers without touchtone phones to the
operator.
See also
Setting up greetings ................................... 52
Making a recording .................................. 428
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ROUTING CALLERS WITH ONE-KEY DIALING

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16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay Accepts the number of seconds

that the voice messaging system waits for callers
to enter additional digits during the opening
greeting before routing the call. This setting
allows callers to enter a complete system ID to
bypass the one-key dialing menu.
One-key dialing Accepts a system ID to route

callers to after they enter a digit. The voice messaging system listens for one-key dialing entries
during the greeting and during the good-bye
prompt.
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Routing callers to a language select box
After adding a language select box, you can

route callers from the opening greeting box
to the language select box, where they select
the language they want to hear. Use the first
procedure, To route callers to a language
select box.
In addition, it is important to set a value for
the Restart IDs field, which lets you specify how the system restarts calls for each
language offered. Otherwise, an outside
caller may reach a language select box more
than once during a call and be asked to
choose a language again. The Restart IDs
field can be set to any valid system ID,
including IDs for a transaction box, interview box, voice detect box, directory menu
or group, automatic directory assistance, or
an operator. Use the second procedure, To
set up a restart ID for a language, only
when you use language select boxes.
To route callers to a language select box

2 On line 17 in the Day field of the
Action section, type g (Go to system
ID), and press ENTER.
3 In the field to the right of the Day field,
type the system ID for the language
select box and press ENTER.
4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the Night
field.
See also
Language select box overview................. 382
Adding a language select box .................. 384
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To set up a restart ID for a language
1 Determine the point at which you want

to restart callers. Depending on what
you want, you may need to perform one
or more of the following actions:
Add a transaction box, interview box,

or voice detect box. Customize the
Transfer, Greeting, and Action sections of the box to route callers in the
manner you want.
Prevent callers from accessing the

restart point directly by typing $
(dollar sign) at the start of the boxs
system ID.
Record the greeting in the language

you want.

page 3.
3 In the Restart IDs field, type the language code (for example, type de for
German), and press TAB.
4 Type the system ID of the box that you
set up in step 1, and press ENTER.
5 Repeat steps 1 through 4 for the other
languages in your voice messaging system.
6 Scroll through the personal directory
and transaction box pages in the voice
messaging system and identify those in
which you have turned on call transfer.
For these boxes, confirm that Await
answer is set up as the call transfer type.
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16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: GotoID--> GERMAN
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------19. Restart IDs: DE $134
Day (Action) Accepts a value which determines

the action the voice messaging system performs
after taking a message during the day schedule.
To route callers to a language select box, type g
(Go to system ID), which routes the call to another
system ID. Then, enter an ID in the field immediately to the right.
Day field. The value determines what action the
voice messaging system performs after taking a
message during the night schedule.
Restart IDs Controls how the voice messaging

system restarts callers at a box that has recordings
in the caller's language choice. Use this field only
with voice messaging systems that have language
select boxes. This field requires both the twoletter language code and the system ID to which
the caller is routed. If the voice messaging system
uses only one language, leave this field blank.
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Adding multiple opening greeting boxes
Most organizations use only one opening

greeting box, but the system supports multiple opening greeting boxes. For example,
you can create an opening greeting box to
answer designated ports. Multiple opening
greeting boxes are useful if two businesses
share the same voice messaging system or if
the system has more than one language.
The system can answer some ports with a
greeting for one business or in one language, and the remaining ports with a greeting for the other business or in a different
language.
To add opening greeting boxes

2 Press F8 and then press ENTER to add
the new opening greeting box.
3 In the dialog box that opens, type the ID
for the box and press ENTER.
4 Type a name for the new box and press
ENTER.
5 On line 17, set up the Greeting section
for the new opening greeting box, as
described in Setting up greetings on
page 52.
6 On line 17, set up the Action section, as
described in Setting up actions after
greetings on page 54.
8 On line 14, select the Opening line ID
field for the port that you want to assign
the new opening greeting box to. (You
can assign the box to more than one
port.) In this field, type the system ID for
the new opening greeting box, and press
ENTER.
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Port 2
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Port 3
Port 4
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Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
Ans
1
1
A/D
1
1
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System language: US
US
US
US
US
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
NIGHT
Opening line ID Accepts the system ID for the

opening greeting box that answers this port. Type
the ID for the opening greeting box in this field.
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Setting up directory assistance options
Dialing options in the opening greeting box

let callers use either automatic (alphabetic)
or numeric directory assistance.
This procedure assumes that you have
already set up numeric directory assistance
and that you are not currently using the
one-key dialing options in the opening
greeting box.
To set up the system to offer callers automatic


2 In the first One-key dialing field, type
the system ID for automatic directory
assistance and press ENTER.
To look up this system ID, go to the ID
for alpha directory field on line 74 of
3 In the next One key dialing field, type
the system ID for the main directory
menu, and press ENTER.
4 Rerecord the opening greeting to tell
callers about their new one-key dialing
options, as described in Setting up
See also
Setting up directory assistance ............... 157
Directory menus ...................................... 340
Creating directory groups or directory
menus ....................................................... 342
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SETTING UP DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE OPTIONS

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16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: Operator
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key dialing Accepts a system ID to which

callers are routed when they enter a digit. The
voice messaging system listens for one-key dialing entries during the greeting and during the
good-bye prompt.
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Operator setup
Operator setup overview................................... 66

language information ........................................ 68
Setting up call transfer....................................... 70
Setting up greetings .......................................... 73
Setting up actions after greetings .................... 74
Assigning an operator box to a port ................ 76
CHAPTER 5: OPERATOR SETUP
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Operator setup overview
The operator box determines how the system handles calls that go to the operator.
Found on Application screen page 4, the
operator box is a transaction box that
defines the operators extension, call transfer settings, and greetings, and specifies the
actions to take when the operator is not
available.
Typically, if the operators extension is available, you want calls transferred to that
extension. If not, the default settings transfer the call to the public interview box to
gather information from the caller. The
operator box plays a greeting only when
callers are transferred to or attempt to reach
the operator, and the line is busy or unanswered.
The default settings for the operator box
enable the operators extension to handle
the greatest number of calls without tying
up ports with calls holding for the operator.
Perform the following steps to set up how
the system handles calls that go to the operator.
See also
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Steps for setting up the operator box

1 Set up the operator ID, voice name,
and language.
See Setting operator system ID, voice
name, and language information on
page 68.
2 Set up call transfer.
See Setting up call transfer on page 70.
3 Set up greetings.
See Setting up greetings on page 73.
4 Set up actions after greetings.
See Setting up actions after greetings
on page 74.
5 Assign an operator box to a specific
port.
See Assigning an operator box to a port
on page 76.
OPERATOR SETUP OVERVIEW

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Set up System Operator
System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
Page 4 of 12
Language: US
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Day?

Yes--> 0
| Day: 0:09 | Day: GotoID--> 0
Nite?
No
| Nite: 0:09 | Nite: GotoID--> $PM
|
|
Await-Ans-->3 Rings
| Alt: 0:07 | Max-msg:
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Transfer options : A
| Active: D/N | Send msg urgent? No
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
| After msg: GotoID--> $HANGUP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Alternate system IDs for special operators on each port: 1=131 2=132 3-4=135
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language information
The operator system ID is the number the
caller enters to access the system operator.
The caller can press this number while listening to the opening greeting, or at any
other time the system is listening for an ID,
to be connected to the operator.
The default system ID for the operator box
is 0 (zero), but this value can be changed.
The operator system ID may or may not be
the same as the operators actual phone
extension, which is entered in fields in the
Transfer section of Application screen
page 4.
See also
System IDs .................................................. 12
Setting up call transfer............................... 70
68
To set the operator system ID, voice name, and

language settings

2 In the System ID field, type the appropriate value and press ENTER.
3 In the Voice name field, press F9 to
record a name for the operator box. See
Making a recording on page 428 for
more information.
4 In the Language field, type the appropriate value and press ENTER.
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System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
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Language: US

Yes--> 0
Nite?
No
|
|
Await-Ans-->3 Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
System ID Accepts the system ID for the operator box.

Voice name Accesses the recorded name for
the operator box.

language you want callers to hear when you have
a multilingual voice messaging system.
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Setting up call transfer
Once a caller has accessed the operator box,

by pressing the operator system ID or by
doing nothing during the opening greeting,
the operator box takes control of the call by
using the transfer-greeting-action structure
specified for the box.
The call transfer settings determine how the
phone and the voice messaging system
interact during a call transfer. These settings
are available when either the Day? or
Night? field is set to Yes.
For example, for daytime business hours,

you can turn on call transfer and enter the
operators actual phone extension after the
arrow. For nighttime hours, you can turn off
call transfer and record a night greeting
explaining that the caller has reached your
office after normal business hours.
To set up call transfer

2 In the Transfer section, type the appropriate value in the Day? field and press
ENTER.
3 If the Day? field is set to Yes, then in
the field to the right of the Day? field,
type the operators extension and press
ENTER.
4 In the Night? field, type the appropriate value and press ENTER.
5 If the Night? field is set to Yes, then
in the field to the right, type the operators extension and press ENTER.
6 In the field below the Night? field, type
a value for the call transfer type and
press ENTER.
The Release value is the best call transfer type for transferring calls to the operator box. However, if the operators
console does not support unlimited
camp-on calling, use the Await answer
value.
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7 If you typed a (Await answer) or w

(Wait for ringback) as the transfer type,
then in the field to the right, type the
number of times the extension rings
before the call is transferred. This setting
must be one less than the number of
rings set on the phone system.
8 In the Intro field, if necessary, record a
greeting. See Making a recording on
page 428.
then in the Holding? field, type the
appropriate value.
10 If you typed a (Await answer) as the
transfer type, then in the Transfer
options field, type the appropriate
value or values.
11 In the Gather ID intro field, if necessary, record a greeting. See Making a
recording on page 428.
SETTING UP CALL TRANSFER

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System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
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Language: US

Yes--> 0
Nite?
No
|
|
Await-Ans-->3 Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
Day? Turns on call transfer during day mode.

Type y to turn on call transfer. Then, in the field
to the right, type the extension to which the voice
messaging system transfers calls. Type n to turn
off call transfer. Typically, this field is set to Yes.
Night? Turns on call transfer during night mode.
off call transfer. Typically, this field is set to No.
Call transfer types Accepts one of the following values to indicate how the phone and voice
messaging systems interact during call transfer:
A (Await answer) Puts the caller on hold and
dials the set extension. If answered within the
number of rings indicated in the Rings field,
the system transfers the call to this box. If the
call rings busy or is unanswered, the system
plays the greeting, then takes the action indicated in the Action section of the screen.
Avoid using this value when the phone system
is set to forward calls for busy extensions. This
transfer type is used when the operator console cannot support automatic camp-on of
multiple calls.
R (Release) Puts the caller on hold, dials the

set extension, and then releases the call. To
use this setting, the phone system must transfer the call using the call forward to personal
greeting setting. Call holding and call transfer
options are not available with this setting.
W (Wait for ringback) Puts the caller on hold
and dials the operators extension (or another
set extension). If the call is busy, the system
plays the greeting, then takes the action indicated in the Action section of the screen. If
answered within the set number of rings, the
system transfers the call. If the call is unanswered, the system releases the call to the
phone system.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is recalled (if Await-ans
is the transfer type) or released (if Wait for ringback is the transfer type). This setting applies
only if the call transfer type is set to Await
answer or Wait for ringback.
Intro Accesses the recorded introduction to the
operator box. The voice messaging system plays
this recording before it transfers a call.
Continued
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Holding? Indicates whether you want to allow

calls to hold if the line is busy. This setting applies
only if the call transfer type is set to Await
answer or Wait for ringback. The following
options are available:
Y Callers can hold or leave a message.
# Callers can try another extension.
V Callers can choose to hold by speaking
rather than by entering a digit.
N Turns off call holding.
Transfer options Accepts one or more of the
following values for how transferred calls are
routed through the operator box. To use any of
these options except Dial-tone detection, set
the call transfer type to Await answer.
A (Announce) Sounds a beep before connecting the caller.
C (Confirm) Checks whether the recipient
chooses to take the call before the voice messaging system transfers the call. If the subscriber rejects the call, the system plays the
appropriate greeting and takes the action
indicated in the Action section of the
screen.
D (Dial-tone detection) Check for a dial tone
before transferring the call. Use this option if
the phone system does not provide immediate disconnect.
G (Gather account number) Asks callers to
enter an account number before transferring
the call. Avoid using this value with the M or
S values. This setting applies to LAN integrations only.
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I (Introduce) The recipient hears Call for

<subscriber's name> before being connected to the caller. Use this option when
more than one subscriber uses the same
phone.
M (Message screen) Asks callers to record
their name. Before the call is transferred, the
subscriber hears Call from <callers name>.
If the subscriber is not available or rejects the
call, and the caller leaves a message, the
caller's recorded name plays at the beginning
of the message. If the caller does not leave a
message, the subscriber receives the caller's
recorded name alone as a message. Do not
use this value with the S value.
P (Gather phone number) Asks callers to
enter their phone number before transferring
the call. Do not use this value with the M or
S values. This setting applies to LAN integrations only.
S (Screen) Asks callers to record their name.
Before the call is transferred, the person hears
Call from <caller's name>. If the subscriber
is not available or rejects the call, the recorded
name is not saved. Do not use this value with
the M value.
Gather ID intro Accesses the LAN Integration
custom recording. Use either the G or P call
transfer options. If there is a recording in this field,
the voice messaging system plays the recording
before routing a caller from outside the voice messaging system to the destination. If there is no
recording in this field, the system plays a prompt
from the Gather ID prompt set.
The operator box greetings are stored in the

Greeting section of Application screen page
4. If a transfer to the operators phone
extension is not successful, the system
plays the active greeting and then takes the
specified action.
The voice fields in the Greeting section display how many seconds the greetings last. If
the field contains 0:00, no greeting has been
recorded and the system plays <Voice
name> is not available, and skips to the
action indicated in the fields in the Action
section.
You can use a local connection or a phone
to record the new greetings. See Making a
recording on page 428 for more information.
To set up greetings
1 Go to the Greeting section of Application screen page 4.

2 In the Day field, record a day greeting
and press ENTER.
3 In the Night field, record a night greeting and press ENTER.
greeting (if applicable) and press
ENTER.
5 In the Active field, type the appropriate value and press ENTER.

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System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
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Language: US

Yes--> 0
Nite?
No
|
|
Await-Ans-->3 Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
Day Accesses the day greeting for the operator

box. The arrows point to the greeting currently in
use.
Active Accepts one of the following values for

which greeting plays when the voice messaging
system answers calls.
Night Accesses the night greeting for the operator box. The arrows indicate the greeting currently in use.
D (Day or night) Makes the standard day or

night greeting active (depending on which
Alt Accesses the alternate greeting for the operator box. The arrows point to the greeting currently in use.

active. If the alternate greeting is active, it is
used in both day and night modes.
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keys during the operators greeting, the system takes the action specified in the Action
section of Application screen page 4. The
actions for the operator box are the same as
for a transaction box.
If the operators extension is busy or does
not answer after a set number of rings, calls
go by default to the public interview box.
The public interview box plays a series of
questions and records the callers response.
If your system uses the public interview box,
set up at least one subscriber with access to
these messages, called public messages, to
ensure that someone will receive them and
respond in a timely manner.
Messages in the operator box, which have
been listened to, are automatically deleted
according to the setting in the Public hold/
archive msgs field on the Public Interview
Box screen. Messages left in the system
operator box can also be manually deleted
before the voice messaging system deletes
them by pressing F7 from Application
screen page 4.
See also
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To set up actions

2 In the Action section, in both the Day
and Night fields, type the appropriate
values and press ENTER.
3 If you typed g (Go to system ID) in
either the Day or Night field, then in
the field to the right, type the system
extension that you want to route the call
to, and press ENTER.
If you want to send the call to the public
interview box, type $PM.
4 If the Action value is Take-msg, then in
the Max-msg field, type the appropriate value.
the Edits OK? field, type the appropriate value.
the Send msg urgent? field, type the
appropriate value.
the After msg field, type the appropriate value.

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System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
Page 4 of 12
Language: US

Yes--> 0
Nite?
No
|
|
Release
0 Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
Day (Action) Accepts one of the following field

values for the action taken after recording a message during the day schedule.
pauses, says good-bye, then disconnects.
caller to the operator box. This setting is not
recommended for use with the operator box.
good-bye.
greeting box. This setting is not recommended for use with the operator box.
G (Go to system ID) Routes the call to
enter an ID to route the call to in the field to
the right. Do not enter a system ID for the
operator box.
T (Take a message) Records a message for
the owner of the voice mailbox.
Night (Action) Accepts the same field values as
the Day field. The value determines what action
is taken after recording a message during the
night schedule.
Max-msg Accepts the maximum length, in seconds, of a message from an unidentified caller.
This setting applies only if the Action value is set
to Take a message.
Edits OK? Accepts y or n to let callers
change messages they have just recorded. This
setting applies only if the Action value is set to
Take a message.
Send msg urgent? Accepts one of the following values for enabling an unidentified caller to
leave an urgent message. This setting applies only
if the Action value is set to Take a message.
Y (Yes) Sets the system to send every message from an unidentified caller as an urgent
message.
A (Ask) Sets the voice messaging system to
ask unidentified callers whether to mark a
message as urgent.
N (No) Prevents unidentified callers from
marking messages as urgent.
After msg Accepts the same field values as the
Day action field (except Take a message).
The value determines the action taken after
recording a callers message. This setting applies
only if the Action value is set to Take a message.
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Assigning an operator box to a port
Callers who press 0 (zero) while in the voice

messaging system can be routed to a second operator, depending on the port the
call came in on. You can create multiple
operators by setting up a new transaction
box for each port. Multiple operators can be
used to support systems with two or more
languages, systems shared by two or more
businesses, or other special applications.
For example, you can designate Port 1 to
receive all calls that come to the phone
number you advertise as a Spanishlanguage line. Then, you can assign the
operator box owned by the Spanish-speaking operator to Port 1.
To assign an operator box to a port
1 Add a transaction box for the second

operator and note the boxs system ID.
See Adding and removing transaction
boxes on page 348 for information on
adding a transaction box.
3 In the Alternate system IDs for special
operators on each port field, type the
port number that you attached to the
new opening greeting box, an equal sign
(=), and the new boxs system ID. Then
press ENTER.
For example, to assign ports 1 and 2 to
extension 131, type 1-2=131.
See also
Adding multiple opening greeting boxes...60
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System ID: 0
Voice name: 0:01
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Language: US

Yes--> 0
| Day: 0:09 | Day: GotoID--> 99
Nite?
No
|
|
Release
0 Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:01
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Alternate system IDs for special operators on each port: 2=132 3-4=135
Alternate system IDs for special operators on

each port Assigns multiple operators to a port.
Callers pressing 0 (zero) are routed to a different
operator depending on the port the call came in
on. For example, entering: 2=132 3-4=135 assigns
Port 2 to use 132 and Ports 3 and 4 to use the alternate operator system ID 135.
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System schedules
System schedule overview ................................ 80

Setting up the systems date and time............. 82
Setting up schedules ......................................... 83
Setting up a 24-hour schedule.......................... 86
Setting up alternate mode ................................ 87
Setting up holidays ............................................ 88
Adjusting for daylight saving time.................... 91
CHAPTER 6: SYSTEM SCHEDULES
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System schedule overview
Most organizations are not open 24 hours

every day. And, in many cases, some departments have different work hours than others in the same organization. If you want the
voice messaging system to handle calls differently depending on the day or time, you
can use schedules. The system lets you create up to three schedules, each with three
different modes of operation.
Day mode
The days and hours in which your organization is open or when standard phone service is available. Day mode hours do not
have to be normal daylight hours.
Night mode
The days or hours when your organization
is closed or when standard phone service is
unavailable. Night mode is in effect for all
the days or hours outside the day mode
schedule.
Holiday mode
The days when your organization is closed
for a holiday. Holiday mode is in effect for
an entire day at a time.
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The fields on Application screen page 5 control date, time, and schedule-related information. The screen is divided into four
areas:
System date and time
Day, night, and holiday schedules
Special schedule and alternate greeting

mode setting
Daylight saving time
On Application screen page 6, you can

specify up to 18 holidays per year, during
which the system remains in night mode for
24 hours.
SYSTEM SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------30. Todays date: 17-Feb-02
Time now: 11:39am
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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
a: 8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF |a: 8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF |a: 12:00am- 2:00pm MTWHFSU
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b:
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: HOLIDAY
Ignore holidays? No
| Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
Alternate mode on? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------33. Daylight savings? Yes
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1

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HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Holiday 1. 25-Feb Greeting
Holiday 2. 24-Nov Greeting
Holiday 3.
1-Jan Greeting
Holiday 4.
3-Jul Greeting
Holiday 5.
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Setting up the systems date and time
Because the system adds the recording date

and time to each message, it is important
that the system calendar and clock settings
are correct.
The date is set in the Todays date field. If
the date is wrong, type the correct date here.
The Time now field shows the current
clock setting. You can change this field just
like the date field.
To set up the systems date and time

page 5.
2 In the Todays date field, type the correct date and press ENTER.
3 In the Time now field, type the correct
time and press ENTER.
The date and time are stored in the systems

battery-powered clock/calendar. The battery ensures that the correct date and time
are kept, even during power failures. Once
set, this information should remain correct.

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Time now: 11:39am
----------------------------------------------------------------------------31.
Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
a: 8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF |a: 8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF |a: 8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
Todays date Accepts the current date in

dd-mmm-yy format.
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Time now
format.
Accepts the current time in hh:mmam
Setting up schedules
You can define up to three different day

modes, numbered 1 through 3, on Application screen page 5. For example, a company
with departments that work different hours
can create one schedule for general business hours (schedule #1), one for extended
customer service hours (schedule #2), and
one for the order-taking department
(schedule #3).
After you have defined the schedules, you
can assign each to a specific system port or
transaction box. For example, calls for the
customer service department can be handled by the port or transaction box that you
set up for schedule #2, while calls for the
order-taking department are handled by
another port or transaction box that you set
up for schedule #3.
Setting up one schedule

The voice messaging system has one
default schedule, schedule #1. To define a
schedules day mode, enter the day mode
hours and days under that schedules heading. For example, enter your companys
normal business hours under the schedule
#1 field. Typically, you will need to enter
only one range of hours in the a field. For
example, if your company is open from 8 to
5, Monday through Friday, enter the following in the a field under schedule #1:
8:00am- 5:00pm MTWHF
If your company has different weekend or

evening hours, you can enter these hours in
the b and c fields for that schedule.
By default, the system uses only schedule

#1, unless you explicitly tell the system to
use another schedule.
NOTE
Any time that is not defined in a schedule is
automatically considered Night, according to that schedule.
Schedules #1, #2, and #3 can each have up

to three ranges of hours and days that
define that schedules day mode. These
ranges are labeled a, b, and c.
To set up one schedule
When the current time and day fall within

any of the ranges you have defined for a
schedule, that schedule is in day mode. The
rest of the time, the schedule is in night
mode. The Current mode field is a display-only field that tells you which mode
currently applies (for example, Current
mode: DAY).
See also
Setting up a 24-hour schedule .................. 86

2 On line 31 in the Schedule #1 field,
type the days and the beginning and
ending times for day mode and press
ENTER. This field is described on
page 85.
3 If the organizations business hours or
department hours vary during the week,
type these different hours and days in
field b or c under schedule #1 and
press ENTER.
Continued
83
SETTING UP SCHEDULES
Setting up multiple schedules

You may want to set up multiple schedules
if your organization has departments that
use different schedules. For multiple schedules, set up specific ports and transaction
boxes to follow the schedules established in
the fields under Schedule #2 and Schedule #3 on Application screen page 5.
If you do not attach a schedule to a port, the
port follows the schedule set up in Schedule #1. If you do not attach a schedule to a
transaction box, the transaction box follows
the schedule of the port that answers the
call.
To set up multiple schedules

page 5.
2 In the fields under schedule #2 and
schedule #3, type the days and beginning and ending times for day mode and
press ENTER.
3 Assign a schedule to a port or a transaction box, using the two procedures on
this page.
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To assign a schedule to a port

page 2.
2 Move the cursor to the field for the port
to which you want to assign the schedule.
3 Type the number that corresponds with
the schedule number and press ENTER.
For example, type 1 for Schedule #1,
2 for Schedule #2, 3 for Schedule
#3, or 4 for Schedule #4.
To assign a schedule to a transaction box
1 Go to the transaction box and move the

cursor to the Schedule field.
2 Type the number (14) that corresponds
with the schedule number and press
ENTER.
SETTING UP SCHEDULES

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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
a, b, and c Accepts the times for your day and

night schedules in hh:mmam format. For example, 9:00am. Enter the days in MTWHFSU format
(H=Thursday, U=Sunday).
Current mode Displays the mode the schedule

is currently in. Day mode is the days and hours
when the organization is open or when standard
phone service is available. Night mode is any time
that is not during Day mode. Holiday mode is the
days when the organization is closed.
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Setting up a 24-hour schedule
Schedule #4 is a special schedule that you

explicitly set or turn off at the console.
Schedule #4 stays in either day mode or
night mode 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The mode will not change unless you
change it at the console. This lets you set a
group of ports or boxes to stay in a particular mode regardless of the time of day. By
changing the setting of schedule #4, you can
reset all the ports or transaction boxes that
use schedule #4. The schedule #4 field has
no impact on schedules #1, #2, and #3.
To set up a 24-hour schedule

2 On line 32 in the Schedule #4 field,
type d for day mode or n for night
mode, and press ENTER.

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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
Schedule #4 Accepts d for day mode and n

for night mode. The schedule will stay in this mode
until changed by a system manager at the console.
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Setting up alternate mode
Alternate greeting mode can be used to

handle unforeseen events. For example, if
you are unable to open your business due
to a snowstorm, the system manager can
turn on alternate greeting mode either by
remotely connecting to the console or by
phone through the system manager conversation. The system manager can also
update the alternate greeting to reflect the
current situation.
To turn on alternate mode

2 Go to line 32.
3 In the Alternate mode on? field,
type y to turn on alternate mode.
Turning on alternate greeting mode places

the entire system in night mode and causes
all opening boxes to play the alternate
greeting. Alternate greeting mode remains
active until it is turned off through the system manager conversation or on Application screen page 5.
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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
Alternate mode on? Accepts n for No (the

system follows the set schedules) and y for
Yes (the system follows the night mode for all
the schedules).
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Setting up holidays
When holidays are set up, the system handles calls on holidays as if it were in night
mode. You can specify up to 18 holidays.
Application screen page 6 is used to set up
holidays. You list the dates of the holidays in
the upper area of the screen. Each holiday is
associated with a numbered greeting field.
You record the greeting for each holiday in
the voice fields in the lower section of the
screen.
Ports that are attached to a schedule with its
Ignore holidays? field set to No are set to
night mode on holidays. Perform the procedure To set up holidays on this page to set
up the organizations holidays.
When both multiple schedules and holidays
are active, one or more of the schedules can
ignore the holidays. Ignoring holidays is
useful for departments that remain open on
holidays. To ignore holidays, see the procedure To set up a schedule to ignore holidays on page 90.
For holidays that fall on different dates in
different years, be sure to verify the holiday
schedule each year.
If you have set schedule #4 for day mode,
any ports or transaction boxes that use
schedule #4 remain in day mode on holidays.
See also
Setting up a 24-hour schedule .................. 86
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To set up holidays
1 Go to the upper section of Application

screen page 6.
2 For Holiday 1 through Holiday 18, type
each holiday as a day and month, such
as 25-Dec, and then press ENTER.
3 Go to each holidays associated Greeting field in the upper section of the
screen. Type the number of the greeting
to play on that day, and press ENTER.
4 For each greeting number in the upper
section of the screen, go to the field of
the associated greeting number in the
lower section of the screen and record a
greeting.
You can use a local connection or a
phone to record the new greetings. See
Making a recording on page 428 for
more information.
5 Confirm that each recorded greeting
field has a duration longer than 0:00.
The recorded greeting fields display how
many seconds the greetings last. If a field
contains 0:00, no greeting has been
recorded.
Your changes to the holiday schedule are
applied to the system after a few
momentsrestarting the voice messaging system is not necessary.
SETTING UP HOLIDAYS

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HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Holiday 1. 25-Feb Greeting : 1
Holiday 10.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 2. 24-Nov Greeting : 2
Holiday 11.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 3.
1-Jan Greeting : 3
Holiday 12.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 4.
3-Jul Greeting : 4
Holiday 13.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 5.
4-Jul Greeting : 4
Holiday 14.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 6.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 15.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 7.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 16.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 8.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 17.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 9.
Greeting : 1
Holiday 18.
Greeting : 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Greeting 1. 0:14 Greeting 6. 0:00 Greeting 11. 0:00
Greeting 16. 0:00
Greeting 2. 0:19 Greeting 7. 0:00 Greeting 12. 0:00
Greeting 17. 0:00
Greeting 18. 0:00
Holidays 1-18 Accepts dates for your organizations holidays. For example, 25-Dec.
Greeting Accepts the greeting number (from 1
to 18) for the associated holiday.
Greetings 1-18 Displays the recorded greetings duration in minutes and in seconds. If a field
contains 0:00, no greeting has been recorded.
Continued
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SETTING UP HOLIDAYS
To set up a schedule to ignore holidays

2 Move the cursor to the Ignore holidays? field of the schedule for which
you want to ignore holidays.
3 Type y and press ENTER.
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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
Ignore holidays? Accepts n (the schedule

operates in night mode on holidays), or y (the
schedule will ignore holidays).
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Adjusting for daylight saving time
You set up the system to automatically

adjust to daylight saving time. The system
follows the daylight saving time settings
made on Application screen page 5, and
sets the appropriate time at 2:00 A.M. on
the applicable date.
Update the daylight saving time settings
each year to reflect the correct dates for the
current year. This update is not done automatically.
To set up the system for daylight saving time

page 5.
3 In the Date on and Off fields, type
the dates on which the time changes,
and press ENTER.
4 In the Hours field, type the number of
hours by which the time changes (for
example, type 1), and press ENTER.

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Schedule #1
|
Schedule #2
|
Schedule #3
b:10:00am- 3:00pm S
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
|b: 7:30am-12:00pm SU
c:12:00pm- 2:00pm U
|c:
|c:
Current mode: DAY
|
Current mode: DAY
|
Ignore holidays? No
----------------------------------------------------------------------------32. Schedule #4: Day
On now? No
Date on: 2-Apr
Off: 29-Oct
Hours: 1
Daylight savings? Accepts y to activate daylight saving time and n to ignore it.
On now? Indicates whether daylight saving
time is currently on.
Date on The date on which daylight saving time
begins for the current year in dd-mmm format. For
example, 02-Apr.
Off The date on which daylight saving time ends

for the current year in dd-mmm format. For example, 29-Oct.
Hours The number of hours that the time is
adjusted for daylight saving time. For example,
1 hour.
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R 7
Default subscriber
Default subscriber overview ............................. 94
Setting up default message notification........ 118
Creating default personal IDs........................... 96
Setting up default fax delivery

notification options.......................................... 122
Setting the default language............................ 97

Creating the default subscriber fax box ........ 125
Setting up default message storage................ 98
Setting up default fax delivery options.......... 127
Selecting default subscriber
access options.................................................. 100
Enrolling subscribers ....................................... 132
Setting up default transfer options ................ 104
Setting up default e-mail options................... 133

greeting, and call routing ............................... 110
Setting up default live record options ........... 134
Setting up one-key dialing.............................. 116
CHAPTER 7: DEFAULT SUBSCRIBER
93
Default subscriber overview
When the voice messaging system is first

installed, you use Application screen page 7
as a template to specify the default (standard) settings for all subscribers. Before you
add subscribers, set the fields on this screen
for the features most subscribers will use.
Each time you add a subscriber, the system
automatically sets the subscribers personal
directory page with these defaults.
You can always change the settings on the
individual personal directory pages for
those subscribers who require different
options. But setting default options for the
majority of subscribers can save time and
help ensure consistency.
Changes you make to the subscriber default
options affect only those subscribers you
add after you make the change, not any
existing subscribers.
Default subscriber vs. Personal

Directory
Application screen page 7 is similar to the
Personal Directory screen, where you make
changes for an individual subscriber. The
different uses of these two screens are discussed in greater detail in this chapter.
See also
Personal Directory overview ................... 276
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Both Application screen page 7 and the Personal Directory screen are divided into
three control areas. The top area of the
screen contains information you set for
each new subscriber, including personal ID,
language, access codes, and message holding and archiving settings. The middle area
of the screen contains fields that control
how calls are transferred and how messages
are taken. The bottom area of the screen
controls message notification, message
delivery, and fax mail options.
Both screens also have six expanded
screens where you can set additional
options. The expanded screens appear
when you press CTRL+E and then select any
of the following options from the Expanded
Options menu:
Access codes
Transfer options
Fax options
Notification
E-mail options
Live record options
The settings for each of these expanded

screens are described in this chapter.
DEFAULT SUBSCRIBER OVERVIEW

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40. Defaults for each new subscriber:
Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
Hold/archive msgs: 0 / 2 days
Access: PCBF
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Transfer?
Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
Await-Ans--> 4 rings
|
|
Screening? No Holding? No |
| Max-msg: 90 sec Edits OK? Yes
--Message notification-------------------------------------------------------Lamp #: X
Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
min, 8:00am-6:00pm MTWHF
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Ctrl-E for expanded options
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Creating default personal IDs
The personal ID is a unique number that

the voice messaging system uses to identify
a subscriber to the system. The personal ID
also lets subscribers listen to messages,
leave two-way messages for others, and
change their setup options.
From Application screen page 7, in the Personal ID field, you can set up a default convention for assigning personal IDs to
subscribers. The most common convention
is a numbering scheme that bases subscribers personal ID numbers on their phone
extension ID numbers.
You type a prefix digit (for example, 9) and

x. The x stands for the subscribers extension and causes the system to use the ID
entered in the Extension ID field on the
subscribers personal directory page. For
example, if you type 9x in the Personal
ID field, then a new subscriber with the
extension 123 is automatically assigned
the personal ID 9123.
To create the default personal ID

2 In the Personal ID field, enter a 1- or 2digit number followed by x.

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
Hold/archive msgs: 0 /
days
Access: PCBF
Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
|
|
Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Personal ID Sets up a default numbering

scheme for personal IDs. If you want, assign IDs
based on the subscribers extension ID. To do this,
type the prefix for the IDs, followed by x for the
subscribers extension ID. For example, type 9x.
See also
System IDs .................................................. 12
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Setting the default language
With a multilingual voice messaging system, you can assign a language for the
prompts that subscribers and guests hear
when they are retrieving messages. If you
do not specify a default language, the voice
messaging system uses the language specified in the System language field on
To set the default language

2 In the Language field, type the twoletter code for the language and press
ENTER.
See Selecting a language for a port on

page 40 for a table of the two-letter language codes.

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
Hold/archive msgs: 0 /
days
Access: PCBF
Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
|
|
Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X

language you want callers to hear. Available only
on multilingual voice messaging systems.
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Setting up default message storage
You can control the length of time that old

messages from subscribers are held or
archived.
When a new message arrives for a subscriber or guest, it is stored until it is
retrieved. After the message is heard, it
becomes an old message and is saved (held)
for a number of days. The Hold field on
Application page 7 specifies the default
value for the number of days the old message is saved by the system.
Subscribers may want to save some messages to listen to or respond to at a later
date. Subscribers can archive these messages. An archived message is saved for a
longer period of time than a held message.
Each time subscribers listen to the archived
message, they must archive it again. Otherwise, it is deleted. The Archive field on
Application page 7 specifies the default
value for the number of days a message is
archived. A message can be re-archived an
unlimited number of times.
The voice messaging system deletes messages at midnight of the day that the hold/
archive times expire.
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To set the number of days that old messages are

held or archived

2 In the Hold/archive msgs fields, type
the applicable hold and archive settings
and press ENTER.
SETTING UP DEFAULT MESSAGE STORAGE

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
Access: PCBF
Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
|
|
Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Hold msgs Accepts the number of days the

voice messaging system retains a subscriber message that has been heard but not archived by the
subscriber. If you type 0 (zero), the message is
held only until midnight of the day it is first heard.
Archive msgs Accepts the number of days the

voice messaging system retains archived subscriber messages. The voice messaging system
uses the number in this field to determine when to
delete an archived subscriber message.
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Selecting default subscriber access options
Access codes control subscriber access to

certain system features. The access codes P,
C, B, M, and F are the defaults and appear in
the Access field on Application screen
page 7. You can add or remove access codes
directly from this field, or you can make
changes from the Access Code Options
screen.
As you review the access code options, consider how you want to set up the system. If
you want to enable or disable an option for
the majority of the subscribers, add or clear
that option on Application screen page 7. If
you want an access option set for just a few
subscribers (such as the operator or system
manager), set that option from the individuals personal directory page.
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To change subscriber access codes
1 Go to Application screen page 7 and

press CTRL+E.
2 From the Expanded Options menu,
select Access codes and press ENTER.
3 On the Access Code Options screen, to
clear or select a checkbox, press the TAB
key to navigate to the checkbox and then
press the SPACEBAR.
4 To add or remove additional access
codes, repeat step 3.
5 To exit this screen, press ESC.
SELECTING DEFAULT SUBSCRIBER ACCESS OPTIONS
Access Code Options screen

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
Hold/archive msgs: 0/ 2
days
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
A C C E S S
C O D E
O P T I O N S
[ ] No setup options
M [*] Menu mode
[*] No rec't summary
N [ ] Hands-free play
[*] No public notify
O [ ] No old messages
[ ] Not in directory
P [*] No public message
[ ] Messages by ext
Q [ ] No urgent message
[*] First-time enroll
R [ ] Can't redirect
[ ] Can't edit greet
S [ ] Can't send message
[ ] Unused
T [ ] Traditional order
[ ] Can't edit to sub
U [ ] Not to subscribers
[ ] No address to many
V [ ] No private message
[ ] Can edit holding
W [ ] No future delivery
[ ] Message length
X [ ] No receipt request
Press TAB or Shift-TAB to move; press SPACE
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
[
[
[
[
[
[
[
[
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]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
Press ESC to Exit

No open groups
Automatic receipts
Can't send remote
No remote urgent
Remote open receipt
E-mail access
No e-mail total
Ask e-mail password
Voice to e-mail
Fax to e-mail
E-mail cross notify
to add or remove a code.
A No setup options Restricts a subscriber from

changing setup options by phone, including personal greetings, message groups, call transfer,
message delivery, recorded name, spelled name,
security code, and directory listing.
F First-time enroll Directs subscribers to enroll

themselves by phone the next time they call the
system. The system does not try to deliver messages to a subscriber with the F access code until
they have enrolled.
B No rect summary The subscriber does not

get a summary when all messages have been
heard.
G Cant edit greet Prevents subscribers from

changing their personal greetings.
C No public notify The system does not notify

a subscriber when a public message is received.
Choose C for subscribers who have public message access and want their message-waiting
lamps lit or who want notification sent only for
messages sent specifically to them.
I Cant edit to sub The subscriber cannot add

to, listen to, or rerecord a message to another
subscriber.
J No address to many The subscriber cannot
address a message to more than one person at a
time.
D Not in directory Excludes a subscriber from

automatic (alphabetic) directory assistance.
E Messages by ext Allows subscribers to send
messages by using the extension number of the
recipient, instead of the first three letters of the
last name.
Continued
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K Can edit holding The subscriber can change

his or her own call holding by phone.
L Message length The voice messaging system
announces how long messages last; for example,
You have three new messages totaling 3 minutes,
20 seconds. Would you like to hear them?
M Menu mode The subscriber hears the menu
conversation instead of the Yes-and-No
conversation.
N Hands-free play The subscriber can retrieve
messages without entering digits because the system does not ask Would you like to hear them?
between message lists. Use only if the phone system has an immediate disconnect feature.
O No old messages The subscriber cannot
review old messages.
P No public message The subscriber cannot
access public messages.
Q No urgent message The subscriber cannot
mark messages urgent.
R Cant redirect The subscriber cannot redirect
messages he or she has received.
S Cant send message The subscriber cannot
send messages to subscribers, guests, or groups.
T Traditional order The subscriber hears the
Yes-and-No conversation in this order: check new
messages, leave messages, change greetings,
review old messages. Subscribers with touchtone
phones press # twice for setup options other than
greetings.
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U Not to subscribers The subscriber cannot

send messages to other subscribers, only to his or
her guests and message groups.
V No private message The subscriber cannot
mark messages as private; any message the subscriber sends can be redirected by the recipient.
W No future delivery The subscriber cannot
mark messages for future delivery.
X No receipt request The subscriber cannot
mark messages for explicit return receipt.
Y No open groups The subscriber cannot
create open message groups or send messages to
open message groups.
Z Automatic receipts Marks every message
sent by the subscriber for return receipt. To avoid
redundant receipts and summary announcements,
always use Z with B.
1 Cant send remote Controls the subscribers

ability to send messages to subscribers and message groups at remote sites. This access code can
be used only on voice messaging systems with
optional network messaging package software.
The package allows two or more voice messaging
systems to transmit messages from one system
site to another.
2 No remote urgent Controls the subscribers
ability to send urgent messages outside the message delivery schedule to subscribers and message groups at remote sites. This access code is
used only on voice messaging systems with
The package allows two or more voice messaging
systems to transmit messages from one system
site to another.
3 Remote open receipt Controls whether the
voice messaging system announces when a recipient at a remote site first listened to each message. Otherwise, the system announces when the
message was transmitted. This access code is
used only on systems with optional network messaging package software. The package allows two
or more voice messaging systems to transmit
messages from one system site to another.
4 E-mail access Allows a subscriber to hear
about e-mail messages by phone through the
optional E-Mail Integration package.
5 No e-mail total Prevents a subscriber from
hearing about e-mail messages by phone through
the optional E-Mail Integration package. E-mail
messages will not be included in new or old message totals. However, the subscriber can hear email messages by phone by entering 4 6 (hear new
messages) and 6 6 (hear old messages). The subscriber can change the 5 access code by phone
using setup options. This option applies only to
Lotus cc:Mail and Groupwise e-mail integrations,
not to ViewMail for Microsoft Messaging.
6 Ask e-mail password Controls whether a subscriber must enter an e-mail password before listening to e-mail messages by phone when using
the optional E-Mail Integration package. The subscriber still hears a count of e-mail messages without entering the e-mail password. This option
applies only to Lotus cc:Mail and Groupwise email integrations, not to ViewMail for Microsoft
Messaging.
7 Voice to e-mail Allows a subscriber to automatically forward voice messages from the voice
message stack to the e-mail inbox when using the
optional E-Mail Integration package. Use this
access code in conjunction with access code 4. Do
not use this access code in conjunction with
access code 9. This option applies only to Lotus
cc:Mail and Groupwise e-mail integrations, not to
ViewMail for Microsoft Messaging.
8 Fax to e-mail Allows a subscriber to automatically forward fax mail from the voice message
stack to the e-mail inbox when using the optional
E-Mail Integration package. This option applies
only to Lotus cc:Mail and Groupwise e-mail integrations, not to ViewMail for Microsoft Messaging.
9 E-mail cross notify Allows a subscriber to
receive notification in e-mail of new voice and fax
mail when using the optional E-Mail Integration
package. Do not use this access code in conjunction with access code 7.This option applies only to
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Setting up default transfer options
From Application screen page 7 you set up

the default call transfer options for all subscribers. The voice messaging system handles calls by following the transfer-greetingaction structure that you set up for a subscribers mailboxthis can be the default
structure that you define from Application
screen page 7, or a customized transfer
structure that you set up from a subscribers
personal directory page.
In most cases, the system first tries to transfer a call to the extension. If the line is busy
or unanswered, the system plays a greeting
and takes a message.
Transfer type
If call transfer is turned on (by typing y in
the Transfer? field), then select a call
transfer type. The call transfer types are
described on page 107.
All call transfer types put the call on hold
and then dial the extension. The most common choice is Release. The Await
answer type is required for setting up call
screening and call holding options on the
Expanded Transfer Options screen.
Call screening
Call screening lets the system screen
calls transferred to the subscriber, who
can then decide whether to take the call.
To enable call screening, turn on call
transfer and call screening on Application screen page 7, and then set the call
screening options on the Expanded
Transfer Options screen. See the procedure To set up call screening on
page 112 for more information.
Call holding
The voice messaging system lets several
callers hold for a busy extension at the
same time. To enable call holding, call
transfer must be turned on. The call
holding options are described on
page 109. See the procedure To turn on
call holding on page 108 for more information.
See the procedure To set up transfer
options on page 106 for more information.
104
SETTING UP DEFAULT TRANSFER OPTIONS
Action options
After setting the transfer type, specify the
action you want the voice messaging system to take after playing the greeting. These
options are described on page 109.
The option Take a message records a
message for the owner of the voice mailbox
and is the most common choice.
Continued
105
To set up transfer options

2 In the Transfer? field, type y and
press ENTER.
3 In the field to the right of the Transfer?
field, type x and press ENTER to
enable the transfer of calls to the subscribers extension.
4 In the unnamed field under the Transfer? field, type the applicable call transfer type. See the field descriptions on
5 If you use the call transfer type a
(Await answer) or w (Wait for ringback), then in the field to the right of the
transfer option, type the number of
times you want the extension to ring
before the call is transferred (if set to
Wait for ringback) or recalled (if set to
Await answer).
You must specify a minimum of three
rings.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
greeting, and call routing ........................ 110
Setting up default message notification.....118
Setting up call transfer............................. 352
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Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Transfer? Accepts y or n to turn call transfer

on or off.
Phone number Accepts the extension to transfer calls to if call transfer is turned on.
Call transfer type Accepts a letter for the call
transfer type to determine how the phone system
and voice messaging system interact during call
transfer to the subscribers box.
dials this extension or phone number. If
answered within the number of rings indicated
in the Rings field, transfers the call to this
box. If busy or not answered, plays the greeting, then takes the action indicated in the
Action section of the screen.

and dials this extension or phone number. If
busy, plays the greeting, then takes the action
screen. If answered within the number of rings
indicated in the Rings field, transfers the call
to this box. If not answered within the number
of rings, the call is released to the phone system. If busy or not answered, the caller cannot
leave a message unless the phone system
transfers the call using call forward to personal
greeting.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is transferred. This
applies only if the call transfer type is Await
R (Release) Puts the caller on hold, dials this

extension or phone number, and then
releases the call. If busy or not answered, the
caller cannot leave a message unless the
phone system transfers the call by using call
forward to personal greeting.
Continued
107
To turn on call holding

press ENTER.
4 In the unnamed field under the Transfer? field, type the call transfer type a
(Await answer) or w (Wait for ringback). See the field descriptions on
page 107 for a description of these types.
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5 In the field to the right of the call transfer

type, type the number of rings you want
the extension to ring before the call is
transferred.
6 In the Holding? field, type y or v,
and press ENTER.
7 In the unlabeled Action field, type t
(Take a message).
If you do not use the Take a message
setting, record a different call holding
prompt. The Take a message setting
offers callers, who are placed on hold,
the choice to continue holding, leave a
message, or try another extension.

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Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Holding? Indicates whether you want to let calls

hold if the line is busy. This selection affects the
voice messaging system only and not the phone
system.
The following options are available:
Y Callers can choose to hold, leave a
N Callers cannot hold.
Action Accepts one of the following values for

the action you want the voice messaging system
to take after playing the greeting:
H (Hang up)
good-bye.
Disconnects without saying

greeting box.
type an ID in the field immediately to the right.
109
Setting up default call screening,

subscriber greeting, and call routing
On the Expanded Transfer Options screen,
you can set additional default transfer and
call screening options, change the active
personal greeting, and set additional
message-taking options.
Call screening options

You can set up additional call screening
options for subscribers by typing the appropriate option values in the Transfer
options or Screening options fields. Possible option value combinations are
described in the Call screening option
combinations table below.
Subscriber greeting options

You can activate or deactivate the busy
greeting. When a busy greeting is activated
and a caller is transferred to the busy extension, the voice messaging system plays a
greeting (either the subscribers recorded
greeting or a voice messaging system
prompt) telling the caller that the extension
is busy.
To activate the busy greeting, perform the
procedure To activate the busy greeting
on page 114.
To set call screening options, perform the

procedure To set up call screening on
page 112.
Call screening option combinations
Option
Value
Result
Identify the subscriber for

whom the call is intended
ic
This option is useful when two subscribers share an

extension, by letting a subscriber refuse a call meant
for another subscriber and send it to the other
subscribers voice mailbox.
Ask unidentified callers to

state their names
sc
This option prompts an unidentified caller to state

his or her name before allowing the caller to speak to
the subscriber. As part of call screening, a subscriber
can refuse the call and send it to his or her voice
mailbox.
or
mc
Announce unidentified
callers with a beep
110
A subscriber hears a beep before being connected to

an unidentified caller. This lets the subscriber know
exactly when a call is being connected and that it is
from an unidentified caller.
SETTING UP DEFAULT CALL SCREENING, SUBSCRIBER GREETING, AND CALL ROUTING
Expanded Transfer Options screen

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-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Transfer? Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
Await-Ans--> 4 Rings
|
|
Screening? Yes Holding? No|
Transfer options :
|
| Send msg urgent? No
Screening options: A
|
| After msg: Say-bye
Gather ID intro : 0:00
| Busy: Yes |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0-> 0
One-key delay:
2 seconds
Call routing options

From the Expanded Transfer Options
screen, you can set up a transfer-greetingaction sequence that provides special routing of incoming calls for a subscriber. For
basic call routing information, see the procedure To set up other action settings after
the greeting is played on page 114.
In addition, from the Default Subscriber

screen, you may want to set up one-key
dialing. When the subscribers extension is
busy or unanswered, the system can play
the subscribers greeting, which contains a
one-key dialing menu so that the caller can
choose where the call is routed. See Setting
up one-key dialing on page 116 for more
information.
Continued
111
To set up call screening

press ENTER.
4 In the unnamed field under the Transfer? field, type a (Await Answer).
transferred.
6 Press CTRL+E and type t to open the
112
7 In the Transfer options or the Screening options field, do one of the following:
To prevent a subscriber from controlling screening options, type the

applicable transfer options in the
Transfer options field and press
ENTER.
To allow a subscriber to change

screening options by phone, type the
applicable screening options in the
Screening options field and press
ENTER.
8 If you typed options in the Screening

options field, type y in the Screening? field.

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Press ESC to Exit
|
| Take-msg
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|
Transfer options :
|
|
| Busy: No
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
0 seconds
Screening? Indicates whether the system is

using the call transfer options in the Transfer
options field or the screening options in the
Screening options field. Type n to use the
options in the Transfer options field, or type y
to use the options in the Screening options
field.
Transfer options Accepts the call transfer
options you want to use for a subscriber.
A (Announce) Sounds a beep before connecting the caller. With most phone systems,
this option lets subscribers know exactly when
the call is connected or that a call is from an
external caller.
C (Confirm) Before the system transfers the
call, the subscriber chooses whether to take
the call. If the subscriber refuses, the system
plays the appropriate greeting and takes the
action indicated in the Action field.
G (Gather account number) With LAN integration, asks callers to provide their account
number before routing the call.
I (Introduce) The subscriber hears Call for

<subscribers name> before being connected to the caller. Use this option when
phone.
their names. Before a call is transferred, the
If the subscriber rejects the call or is not available, and the caller leaves a message, the
callers recorded name plays at the beginning
of the message. If the caller doesnt record a
message, the subscriber receives the callers
recorded name alone as the message.
P (Gather phone number) With LAN integration, asks a caller to give a phone number
before routing the call.
Before a call is transferred, the subscriber
hears Call from <callers name>. If the subscriber rejects the call or is not available, the
recorded name is not saved.
Screening options Accepts the screening
options you want to use for a subscriber. The
options for the Transfer options and Screening
options fields are the same.
Continued
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To activate the busy greeting

3 Under Greeting, in the Busy field, type
y to activate the busy greeting, and
press ENTER.
To set up other action settings after the greeting

is played

3 Under Action, in the unnamed field at
the top of the section, type the appropriate action value and press ENTER.
4 If the Action value is Take a message,
then in the Max-msg field, type the
appropriate value.
then in the Edits OK? field, type the
appropriate value.
then in the Send msg urgent? field,
type the appropriate value.
then in the After msg field, type the
appropriate value.
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| Take-msg
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|
Transfer options :
|
|
| After msg: GotoID--> 346
| Busy: No
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
2 seconds
Busy Accesses the recording for the greeting

that plays when the subscribers extension is busy.
Type y to activate the busy greeting. Type n
to deactivate the busy greeting. If the subscriber
has no standard greeting recorded and the
Busy field is set to No, callers hear <Subscribers name> is on the phone...
Action Accepts the letter for the action you want
the voice messaging system to take after recording a message.
good-bye.
greeting box.
to Take a message.
Take a message.
message.
message as urgent.
After msg Accepts the same values as the
Action field (except for Take a message). The
value determines the action taken after recording
a callers message. This setting applies only if the
Action value is set to Take a message.
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Setting up one-key dialing
can route callers quickly to directory assistance, subscribers extensions, transaction
boxes, voice detect boxes, language select
boxes, or interview boxes.
One-key dialing can be used with the language select box, opening greeting box,
transaction box, and directory menus.
When it is set up on the Expanded Transfer
Options screen, you can program a menu of
choices which a subscriber can offer in their
personal greeting.
116
To set up one-key dialing

3 In the One-key dialing fields, type the
system IDs for the keys you want to use.
4 In the One-key delay field, type 1 or
2, and press ENTER.
This setting creates a 1- or 2-second
pause that lets callers bypass the onekey options and enter system IDs.
6 Tell subscribers to rerecord their greeting to describe the menu of options to
callers.
SETTING UP ONE-KEY DIALING

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| Take-msg
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|
Transfer options :
|
|
| Busy: No
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2-> 345
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
2 seconds

callers to when they press a key. The voice messaging system listens for one-key dialing entries
prompt.
you want the voice messaging system to wait
before taking action.

to take if no touchtones are pressed during the
greeting:
H (Hang up)
good-bye.

greeting box.
117
Setting up default message notification
The voice messaging system lets a subscriber know that messages are waiting in
two ways: message indication and message
delivery.
From Application screen page 7, you can
control the initial message delivery and
notification settings for each new subscriber you add. Then, you can change settings for specific subscribers from their
Message indication
The voice messaging system indicates when
messages are waiting by an indication light
on the phone, a distinctive dial tone (such
as a stutter tone), or a message display that
alerts the subscriber.
There are two parts to setting up message
waiting indication. First, perform the procedure To activate message waiting indication, on page 119, to activate message
waiting indication. The rest of the sequence
is set up on line 10 of Switch Setup screen
page 2, described in the topic Changing
message waiting indicator and touchtone
settings on page 456.
Message delivery
With message delivery, a subscriber need
not think about messages until the voice
messaging system calls and announces that
messages are waiting. Message delivery can
only be activated if message notification is
set up for the subscriber.
From Application screen page 7, you can
specify a work number that the system
automatically dials to notify a subscriber of
a waiting message. You can also specify the
frequency of these calls and whether the
system notifies the subscriber of all messages or only urgent messages. To activate
message delivery, perform the procedure
To activate message delivery on page 120.
See also
Setting up default fax delivery notification
options ...................................................... 122
Switch Setup screen page 2 overview ..... 454
118
SETTING UP DEFAULT MESSAGE NOTIFICATION
To activate message waiting indication

2 In the Lamp # field, type x for the
subscribers extension ID, and press
ENTER.
3 In the Activate lamps? field, type y
and press ENTER.
4 See the topic Changing message waiting indicator and touchtone settings on
page 456 for the procedures that complete setting up message waiting indication.
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#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Lamp # Accepts the extension on which the

subscriber receives message waiting indicators.
Type x for the subscribers extension ID.
Activate lamps? Accepts a value for activating

or deactivating message waiting indicators. Type
y to turn on the message waiting indicators. Otherwise, type n.
Continued
119
To activate message delivery

2 Under Message Notification, in the #1
(work phone) field, type x to direct the
system to dial the subscribers extension.
3 In the After field, type the number of
minutes the system waits before delivering a message after it arrives.
4 In the Schedule field, type the hours
and days when this schedule is applicable.
120
5 In the Rings field, type the number of

rings the system waits for an answer
when attempting to deliver the message.
6 In the Interval field, type the number
of minutes the system waits before retrying a message delivery number.
7 In the Method field, indicate the message delivery method.

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| Take-msg
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Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
#1 (Work phone) Accepts the work phone

extension to dial.
After (Delay) Accepts the number of minutes
between the arrival of a new message and the first
attempt to deliver it. Use this setting to assign priority to a certain message delivery phone number.
For example, if you type 0 (zero) for Phone 1 and
60 for Phone 2, for the first 60 minutes the voice
messaging system attempts to deliver new messages only to Phone 1. After 60 minutes, it
attempts to deliver new messages to both
phones.
Schedule Accepts the hours and days when this
phone number is used for message delivery.
When two delivery schedules overlap, the voice
messaging system delivers the messages to both
phones. Enter beginning and ending hours as
hh:mmam, for example, 11:32pm. Enter days as
MTWHFSU, where H represents Thursday and U
represents Sunday.
Rings Accepts the number of rings the voice
messaging system waits for an answer when
attempting message delivery to the phone
number.
Interval Accepts the number of minutes the

voice messaging system waits after an unsuccessful message delivery before retrying the message
delivery number. An attempt is unsuccessful when
the delivery number is busy, unanswered,
answered by a person who does not enter a personal ID, or answered by an answering machine.
Method Accepts a letter for a message delivery
method for the message delivery number.
E (Each) Starts message delivery as soon as
each new message arrives, and repeats this
step each time a new message arrives.
B (Batch) Starts message delivery as soon as a
new message arrives. If this delivery attempt is
unsuccessful, the voice messaging system
waits the specified delivery interval before
retrying this number.
U (Urgent) Starts message delivery only when
a new, urgent message arrives, and repeats
this step each time a new, urgent message
arrives.
O (Off)
Turns off message delivery.
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Setting up default fax delivery

notification options
In addition to voice messages, the voice
messaging system can notify subscribers of
new faxes and deliver a fax message to a
specific fax machine at a scheduled time.
You specify fax notification settings from
the Expanded Notification Options screen.
NOTE
In the Voice delivery section of Application
screen page 7, it is possible to specify notification schedule information for a home
phone, pager, and spare phone. However, it
is recommended that you specify this information from the individual personal directory pages for each subscriber. For more
information, see Setting up voice and fax
delivery notification options on page 302.
See also
Setting up default message notification.....118
122
To set up additional notification options

2 Press CTRL+E and type n to open the
Expanded Notification Options screen.
3 On line #1 in the Voice delivery section,
confirm that a schedule is complete for
the work phone numbers.
4 Type the appropriate value in the
Phones to notify for fax field.
5 In the Fax delivery section, type the
phone number and schedule information.
SETTING UP DEFAULT FAX DELIVERY NOTIFICATION OPTIONS
Expanded Notification Options screen

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O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Lamp-------------------------------------------------------------------------Lamp #: X
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? Yes
-Voice delivery--------------------------------------------------------------#1: X
after 0 min, 8:00am- 6:00pm MTWHF
4
rings 30 min,Batch
#2:
after 0 min, 6:00pm- 9:00pm MTWHF
5
rings 60 min,Off
#3:
after 0 min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU 1
rings 30 min,Off
#4:
after 0 min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSW 4
rings 60 min,Urgent
Phones to notify for fax (1-4): 1
-Fax delivery----------------------------------------------------------------# : 222-2222
0
min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU
30 min,Off

extension to dial.
messaging system attempts to deliver new messages only to Phone 1. After 60 minutes, it
attempts to deliver new messages to both
phones.
represents Sunday.
number.

step each time a new message arrives. There
is no delivery delay with this method.
retrying this number. The system delivers no
more frequently than the interval scheduled.
U (Urgent) Starts message delivery only when
arrives.
O (Off)

Continued
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SETTING UP DEFAULT FAX DELIVERY NOTIFICATION OPTIONS
Phones to notify for fax Specifies which phone

numbers the system calls to notify the subscriber
when a new fax message arrives. Type a single
number (1), a list of numbers separated by commas (1,3), or a range of numbers separated by a
hyphen (1-4).
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Fax delivery Accepts the extension or phone

number to dial to deliver a message to a fax phone
number. Use only DTMF digits and acceptable
special characters for fax phone numbers.
Creating the default subscriber fax box
With the optional ActiveFax package,

subscribers can have fax boxes that store
fax messages just as their voice mailboxes
store voice messages.
How you assign fax boxes to subscribers
depends on whether you purchased ActiveFax with your voice messaging system or
added it later.
If you purchased ActiveFax with your

voice messaging system, the system
automatically creates fax boxes for all
subscribers you add to the system.
If you added ActiveFax to an existing
system, the system automatically creates fax boxes for any new subscribers
you add to the system. You must manually add fax boxes for existing subscribers.
ActiveFax attaches to every fax delivery a fax

mail cover sheet, which you can customize
to include your companys logo or more
detailed delivery information. See Creating
a custom fax-on-demand cover sheet, on
page 401, for more information on creating
custom fax mail cover sheets.
See also
Fax setup overview................................... 172
Adding a subscriber fax box .................... 305
If many or all subscribers want fax boxes,

set a default convention for assigning fax
IDs. The Fax ID field on Application
screen page 7 is used to create the unique
ID that identifies a fax box to the system.
The default fax ID is automatically applied
when you add new subscribers to the system or when you add a personal fax box for
an existing subscriber. The default does not
affect existing subscribers who already have
fax boxes set up.
If you do not want to create a fax box for
each new subscriber, be sure to clear the
Fax ID field before adding subscribers to
the system. You cannot delete fax boxes
without deleting the entire subscriber.
If the Fax ID field has no setting, a fax box
will not be created when a new subscriber is
added. You can always add a fax box later
for an existing subscriber from that subscribers personal directory page.
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CREATING THE DEFAULT SUBSCRIBER FAX BOX
To set up the default subscriber fax box

2 In the Fax ID field, type a starting digit
and x, for example, 8x.
When you create a unique fax box ID for
every user, the system adds this prefix to
the beginning of the subscribers extension ID, which is represented by x. For
example, if you type 8x, then for a subscriber with an extension ID of 123, the
system assigns a fax box ID of 8123.

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
days
Access: PCBF
Yes--> X
|
| Take-msg
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Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Fax ID Accepts the subscribers system ID to

identify a personal fax box (only for voice messaging systems with the ActiveFax package). Callers
dial this number to send faxes directly to the subscriber. Add a starting digit to the subscribers
extension, represented by x, to create a unique
fax box ID for every subscriber.
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Setting up default fax delivery options
From the Expanded Fax Options screen,

you can specify automatic fax delivery,
voice annotation, and voice announcement
options.
The voice annotation option, set in the Ask
for voice? field, allows callers to record a
message with their fax document. The voice
announcement option, set in the Announce
even if no voice? field, provides subscribers
with a voice mail announcement when a fax
message arrives. The combined settings for
these two fields control whether voice annotation is requested and how fax messages are
announced to subscribers.
You can change any of these default fax
mail options for individual subscribers on
their personal directory page.
System actions when there is no fax

port available
From the Expanded Fax Options screen,
you can specify the action that you want the
voice messaging system to take when there
is no fax port available. For example, you
can have the caller hold, leave a message, or
be routed to another system ID.
For automatic fax delivery, in addition to
setting the fields on the Expanded Fax
Options screen, also set the correct fax
number and schedule on the Expanded
Notification Options screen.
If the Announce even if no voice? field is
set to No and no fax delivery schedule is
specified, the system will neither announce
nor deliver the fax.
Fax mail delivery options

Some common default fax mail delivery
options include:
The system can deliver faxes to a fax

machine immediately upon arrival,
without notifying subscribers.
The system can notify subscribers that

they have received fax mail, but the
faxes remain in the fax box until the subscriber requests delivery.
The system can announce new faxes to

subscribers, even if the caller did not
leave a voice annotation.
Callers can leave a voice annotation

with a fax, and edit or review this annotation before sending the fax.
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SETTING UP DEFAULT FAX DELIVERY OPTIONS
To set up voice annotations and voice

announcement

2 Press CTRL+E and type f to open the
Expanded Fax Options screen.
3 Under Voice annotation, in the Ask for
voice? field, type y and press ENTER.
4 In the Max-msg field, type the number
of seconds for the maximum length of
the callers annotation, and press
ENTER.
5 Type the appropriate value in the Edits
OK? field to allow or not allow callers to
edit their annotation, and press ENTER.
Announce even if no voice? field, and
press ENTER.
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To set up automatic fax delivery

voice? field, type n and press ENTER.
4 In the Edits OK? field, type n and
press ENTER.
5 In the Announce even if no voice? field,
type the appropriate value, and press
ENTER.
Expanded Fax Options screen

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
E X P A N D E D
F A X
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Fax ID: 8X
-->Voice annotation-------------------->Fax ---------------------------------|
Ask for voice? Yes
Max-msg 90 | No fax available: Take-msg <ID>
Edits OK? No
| After msg/hold:
GotoID--> 0
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Announce even if no voice? Yes
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 0
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Ask for voice? Accepts y or n to specify

whether the system asks unidentified callers to
record a voice annotation for a fax message.
Max-msg Accepts the maximum length, in seconds (up to 9999), for a callers voice annotation
for a fax message.
Edits OK? Accepts y to let callers edit or

rerecord their voice annotations. Otherwise, type n.
Announce even if no voice? Accepts y to
specify that the subscriber be notified of each
individual fax message, even when there is no
voice annotation. This field works in combination
with the Ask for voice? field.
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To set up system actions when there is no fax port available

4 Do one of the following:
If you typed g (Go to system ID) in

the No fax available field, then type
the system ID for where the call
should be routed in the field to the
right of GotoID-->, and press ENTER.
If you typed t (Take a message) or

f (Fax hold) in the No fax available
field, then type the appropriate
action in the After msg/hold field,
and press ENTER.
3 In the No fax available field, type the

appropriate action, and press ENTER.
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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
E X P A N D E D
F A X
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Fax ID: 8X
-->Voice annotation-------------------->Fax ---------------------------------|
Ask for voice? Yes
Max-msg 90 | No fax available: Take-msg
Edits OK? No
| After msg/hold:
GotoID--> 444
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2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
No fax available Determines the voice messaging systems response when no fax port is available to receive the fax.
F (Fax hold) Allows the caller to hold for a fax
port. Voice detect call holding is not available.
T (Take a message) Instructs the voice messaging system to record a voice message.
G (Go to system ID) Instructs the voice messaging system to route the call to another system ID. You must enter a valid system ID (in
the box directly to the right of GotoID-->).
H (Hang up) Instructs the voice messaging
system to disconnect immediately, without
saying good-bye.
O (Transfer to operator) Instructs the voice
messaging system to route the call to the
operator box.
R (Restart) Instructs the voice messaging system to return the call to the opening greeting.
S (Say good-bye) Instructs the voice messaging system to play a prompt, which offers further assistance, pauses, says good-bye, and
then disconnects.
After msg/hold Controls the response of the

voice messaging system after placing the caller on
hold, and the caller either leaves a voice message
or chooses not to remain on hold any longer. Set
this field only if the No fax available field is set
to either Take a message or Fax hold.
saying good-bye.
operator box.
S (Say good-bye) Instructs the voice messaging system to play a prompt that offers further
assistance, pauses, says good-bye, and then
disconnects.
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Enrolling subscribers
There are two ways to enroll subscribers:
You can enroll them at the console by

entering their names in the appropriate
field on the Personal Directory screen.
Subscribers can self-enroll. This method
requires that you add a range of subscriber mailboxes with F-code access.
This access code directs subscribers to
enroll themselves by phone when they
first call the system. To allow subscribers
to self-enroll, see the following procedure, To enable subscribers to selfenroll.
To enable subscribers to self-enroll

2 In the Access field, type f (First-time
enroll) and press ENTER.

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Access: PCBF
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Activate lamps? Yes
#1: X
after 0
4
rings 30 min, Off
#2:
after 0
5
rings 60 min, Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 8X
Access Accepts the access codes you want to

use. Type f (First-time enroll) to enable a subscriber to self-enroll.
See also
Selecting default subscriber access
options.................................................. 100
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Setting up default e-mail options
Use the Expanded E-mail Options screen to

give subscribers e-mail access. Subscribers
can hear about new e-mail messages
through the voice messaging system, or, by
using the optional E-Mail Integration package, subscribers can listen to e-mail messages from any touchtone phone.
From the Expanded E-mail Options screen
for the default subscriber, you specify the
e-mail post office used by all subscribers.
Then, when setting up individual subscriber accounts, you specify the e-mail
name for each subscriber from their individual subscriber page.
To set up e-mail for a default post office account

2 Press CTRL+E and type e to open the
Expanded E-mail Options screen.
3 In the E-mail post office field, type the
default value.
Expanded E-Mail Options screen

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Personal ID: 9X
Language: US
E X P A N D E D
E - M A I L
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
E-mail post office ADMIN
E-mail post office Accepts the name of the email programs post office, such as ADMIN.
See also
Setting up e-mail options........................ 318
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Setting up default live record options
Live record, available with certain DTMF

(dual-tone multi-frequency) phone system
integrations and ViewMail, gives subscribers the option of recording phone conversations. A subscriber can keep this
recording for later reference or redirect it to
another subscriber or group of subscribers.
For example, a receptionist can record
phone conversations and direct them to
appropriate subscribers.
Local laws may require a periodic beep
while a conversation is being recorded. The
phone system provides this beep. (See the
Caution on this page.)
If you are using DTMF live record over the
phone without ViewMail, the technician
programs the phone system to enable live
record on subscribers phones. Subscribers
begin their live record session by using a
programmed button on their phone, and
stop recording by hanging up or by pressing
any touchtone. The recording is stored in
the subscribers voice mailbox.
With ViewMail installed, subscribers have
additional options for managing their live
record sessions. For details, see the topic
Recording a conversation in the User
Guide. As system manager, using the Live
Record Options screen, you can enable or
disable live record for each subscriber,
specify the maximum length of a recording,
and specify the extensions at which an individual subscriber can record. If a subscriber
See also
Installation Guide: Setting up live record,
in Chapter 6
Setting up live record ............................... 474
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can record at more than one extension, the

list of extensions appears as a selection box
when the subscriber begins a recording.
NOTES
In the Live record extensions for ViewMail field, you can type a range of numbers if you want the subscriber to be able
to record at several sequentially numbered extensions. For example, type
201-211.
When a live record conversation is initiated from a redirected extension, the

system sends the recorded conversation
to the mailbox of the called extension,
rather than the redirected extension.
CAUTION The use of monitoring, recording,

or listening devices to eavesdrop, monitor,
retrieve, or record phone conversations or
other sound activities, whether or not contemporaneous with transmission, may be
illegal in certain circumstances under federal or state laws. Legal advice should be
sought prior to implementing any practice
that monitors or records any phone conversation. Some federal and state laws require
some form of notification to all parties to a
phone conversation, such as using a beep
tone or other notification methods or
requiring the consent of all parties to the
phone conversation, prior to monitoring or
recording the phone conversation. Some of
these laws incorporate strict penalties.
SETTING UP DEFAULT LIVE RECORD OPTIONS
To set up live record

2 Press CTRL+E and type l to open the
Live Record Options screen.
3 In the Live Record? field, type y.
4 In the Live record maximum record

time field , enter the time in seconds.
5
In the Live record extensions for ViewMail field, type x to use the subscribers extension.
Live Record Options screen

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Language: US
L I V E
R E C O R D
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Live record? Yes

Live record maximum record time: 60
Live record extensions for ViewMail: X
Live record? Accepts y to activate call recording, or n to disable call recording. Guests cannot
record calls.
Live record maximum record time Accepts
the maximum length, in seconds, of a live record
session. The maximum value is 6000 seconds.
When a live record session reaches the maximum
record time, the subscriber hears three short
beeps.
Live record extensions for ViewMail Accepts

the extensions on which a subscriber can record
calls. To allow subscribers to record calls on their
own extensions, type x in this field or type a
range of extensions, such as 201-211.
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Message
management
and storage
Message management overview ................... 138
Controlling what appears onscreen .............. 150
Setting up maximum call recording and

screening times......................................................... 140
Scheduling an automatic voice messaging

system shutdown ............................................. 151
Moving forward or backward during

message playback............................................ 141
Sending error messages to subscribers ........ 153

Saving and storing messages......................... 154
Specifying pause durations ............................. 142

Saving and storing call report data................ 156
Playing a beep to signal recording ................ 143
Setting up directory assistance ...................... 157
Generating disk full warning messages ......... 144
Specifying longer spelled name options....... 160
Checking the keypad map .............................. 145
Redirecting messages ..................................... 146
Limiting the number of times unidentified

callers can misdial............................................ 162
Changing the message retrieval order .......... 148
Setting up the public fax box ......................... 163
Changing the message date and

time stamp........................................................ 149
Setting up multiple fax machines................... 167
CHAPTER 8: MESSAGE MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE
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Message management overview
Application screen page 8 and Application

screen page 9 contain a variety of control
options, settings, and indicators for managing messages.

On lines 70-77 of Application screen page 9,
you can:
Determine the lifecycle of new and old

messages.
Set up directory assistance.
Specify the number of times unidentified callers can misdial.

The top section of Application screen page 8
(lines 50-56) contains fields you can set to
control systemwide message taking and
recording. These fields are in addition to the
individual message-taking fields on the
Default Subscriber and Transaction Box
screens and affect all messages including
those left by subscribers.
Use the fields on lines 60-62 to set the voice
messaging system screen saver, schedule
automatic system shutdowns, and specify
error message delivery.
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You use the bottom section of this screen to

set up the public fax box, which provides fax
detect, routing, and notification for incoming faxes.
MESSAGE MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

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Max person-person recording: 300 secs
Max screening recording: 6
Amount to skip/forward on rewind/fast-forward: 4
Record pauses...beginning: 5
Short ending: 4
Long ending: 5
Beep on record? Yes
Disk full warning at: 30
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Keypad: Q=7, Z=9 keys
Redirect with single introduction? Yes
Absolute date/time stamp?: No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------60. Blank PC screen? Yes

Screen type: Auto
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Monthly: 1 2:00am
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70. Maximum message life: 60 days
Call report aging: 14 days
71. Public hold/archive msgs: 0/2
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
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74.
75.
76.
77.
ID for Numeric Access to Groups and Remote Sites: 77

ID for Alpha Directory: 555
Auto xfers? Yes
Three Character Directory Mode: No
Directory Time out (ms): 2000
Directory Max Touch Tones: 10
Max ID attempts: 4
Bad ID Goto--> 0
--------------------------- Public fax box ----------------------------------Fax ID: $_FAXBOX

| Transfer? Yes--> 329
| Alt action: GotoID--> 0
Voice name: 0:01
| Await-Ans--> 4 Rings
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| Holding? No
| Announce: Always
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Setting up maximum call

recording and screening times
Each voice messaging computers hard disk
space must accommodate the sites daily
voice messaging system storage needs. In
order to save disk space, you can specify a
maximum length, in seconds, for messages
traded between people enrolled in the system. The Max person-person recording
field applies to all subscribers and guests.
This field also controls the maximum
recording time for a subscribers personal
greeting when recorded over the phone.
When a subscriber has call screening activated, callers are asked to identify themselves. The Max screening recording field
defines the maximum amount of time, in
seconds, that the voice messaging system
waits after asking callers to identify themselves. This field also controls the maximum
recording time that subscribers and callers
have to record their voice names.
To set up the maximum call recording times

page 8.
2 In the Max person-person recording
field, type the maximum time, in seconds, and press ENTER.
To set up the maximum call screening times

page 8.
2 In the Max screening recording field,
type the maximum time, in seconds, and
press ENTER.

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Error notices to: 0
Max person-person recording Accepts the

maximum length, in seconds, for a subscriber-tosubscriber or guest-to-subscriber message. This is
also the maximum recording time allowed for a
subscribers personal greeting when recorded
over the phone.
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Max screening recording Accepts the maximum length, in seconds, that the voice messaging
system waits after the system asks callers to identify themselves. This is also the maximum recording time allowed for subscribers to record their
names by phone.
Moving forward or backward

during message playback
During message playback, the subscriber
can change how the system plays a message. You can set up the system so that a
subscriber presses 7 to move backward or
9 to move forward through a message.
To skip forward or backward during message

playback

page 8.
The Amount to skip/forward on rewind/

fast-forward field controls how many seconds the system moves forward or backward when a subscriber presses the
appropriate key. If either key is pressed
repeatedly, the system skips through the
message, allowing a subscriber to move to
the beginning or end of a long message rapidly.
2 In the Amount to skip/forward on

rewind/fast-forward field, type the
number of seconds and press ENTER.

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62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0
Amount to skip/forward on rewind/fastforward Accepts the number of seconds the

voice messaging system moves forward or backward through a message.
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Specifying pause durations
If a caller pauses for longer than the specified amount of time while recording a message, the voice messaging system assumes
the caller has finished speaking and plays
the next prompt. On Application screen
page 8, specify the number of seconds the
voice messaging system waits before it plays
the next prompt.
To set up pause durations for caller messages

page 8.
2 In the Record pauses. . .beginning
field, type the number of seconds and
press ENTER.
3 In the Short ending field, type the
4 In the Long ending field, type the

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Long ending: 5
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62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0
Record pauses Accepts the number of seconds

that the voice messaging system listens for pauses
in a callers speech.
Beginning Accepts the number of seconds
the voice messaging system waits for the caller
to start speaking.
Short ending Accepts the number of seconds
the voice messaging system waits for callers
making brief recordings to pause. This value
applies to the fields in which the maximum
recording time is less than 30 seconds (for
example, the Max screening recording field).
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Long ending Accepts the number of seconds

the voice messaging system waits for callers
making long recordings to pause. This value
applies to the fields in which the maximum
recording time is more than 30 seconds (for
example, the Max person-person recording
field).
Playing a beep to signal recording
You can set the voice messaging system to

sound a beep after prompts that request a
caller to leave a message. The beep signals
the caller when to begin speaking.
To play a beep before recording begins

page 8.
2 In the Beep on record? field, type y
and press ENTER.

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Error notices to: 0
Beep on record? Accepts y to make the voice

messaging system play a beep so callers know
when to begin recording a message. Otherwise,
type n.
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Generating disk full warning messages
The system can send a warning to subscribers that the disk space on the voice messaging system is getting low. When the amount
of message storage available on the system
is equal to or less than the number of minutes in the Disk full warning at field, subscribers are asked to delete any unnecessary
messages whenever they call the system.
To generate disk full warning messages

page 8.
2 In the Disk full warning at field, type
the number of minutes of recording time
remaining on the hard disk, which triggers the voice messaging system to generate a warning. Press ENTER.

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Monthly: 1 2:00am
62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0
Disk full warning at Accepts the setting that

triggers the voice messaging system to ask subscribers to delete unnecessary messages. This setting is the recording time, in minutes, remaining
on the hard disk.
See also
Disk full error messages........................... 519
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Checking the keypad map
Callers interact with the voice messaging

system by using the keypads on their touchtone phones, or by using the rotary dial if
their system is configured for dial pulse
detection. Each digit on a callers phone is
mapped to two or three letters in the voice
messaging system. The keypad map determines how digits are mapped to letters.
The location of letters on the keypad can
vary among countries and among different
phone manufacturers. For example, many
keypads do not show the letters Q and Z,
while others may show them on the 1, 7, 9,
or 0 (zero) key.

check the name of the current keypad map
to confirm that it matches the phone keypads your subscribers and callers use. See
the Installation Guide for information
about changing the keypad map.
To check the keypad map
1 Go to line 54 on Application screen page 8.

2 Check the name of the current keypad
map for your voice messaging system to
confirm that it matches the phone keypads your subscribers and callers use.

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Monthly: 1 2:00am
62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0
Keypad Contains information on the current

keypad map. This field is for display only. For
information on changing the keypad map, see the
Installation Guide.
See also
Installation Guide: Changing the keypad
map, in Chapter 6
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Redirecting messages

change the systemwide setting that controls
how the voice messaging system prompts
phone users when they redirect a voice
message to several subscribers simultaneously. You can choose to redirect messages with a single introductory message or
with different introductory messages.
Multiple redirect with a single

introductory message
When the phone user redirects a voice message to two or more subscribers, the system
prompts the sender to record an introductory message. When subscribers retrieve the
message, each hears the same introduction.
However, with this option, the phone user
can modify the introductory message for
specific recipients. The phone user accesses
the Message Options menu, changes the
introductory message for those recipients,
and sets special delivery options if desired.
Changes made to an introductory message
while the user is in the Message Options
menu affect only the introductory message
for that specific recipient.
Multiple redirect with different

introductory messages
When the phone user redirects a message to
two or more subscribers, the system
prompts the sender to record an introductory message after each subscriber is chosen. When subscribers retrieve the message,
each hears a different introduction. This is
the default setting.
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REDIRECTING MESSAGES
To change the message redirect option

2 On line 55, in the Redirect with single
introduction? field, type the appropriate value.
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Monthly: 1 2:00am
62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0
Redirect with single introduction? Accepts y

to redirect messages with a single introduction, or
n to use different introductions.
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Changing the message retrieval order
When subscribers use a phone to retrieve

voice messages, the messages play in an
order determined by the type of sender. You
can change the order of the following list of
senders:
NOTES
Sort by group is not supported.
Setting message order and sequence

order does not change the message
order within ViewMail. It only changes
the order of messages retrieved from a
phone.
Subscribers
Guests
Outside callers
Transaction boxes
To change the message order or the LIFO or

FIFO sequence
Interview boxes
1 Exit the voice messaging system.
Fax boxes
2 At the command prompt, type
You can also change the systemwide

sequence order of new and old messages to
LIFO (last in, first out) or FIFO (first in, first
out).
In LIFO order, if two messages arrive at 9:01
and 10:01, the LIFO order plays the 10:01
message followed by the 9:01 message.
In FIFO order, if two messages arrive at 9:01
and 10:01, the FIFO order plays the 9:01
message followed by the 10:01 message.
You set the order of new messages first, and
then determine whether old messages are
sorted in the same or reverse order as the
new messages. Old messages cannot be
sorted independently of the new message
order.
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d:\vmail\msgorder
and press ENTER.

3 Follow the onscreen instructions to
change the message order and/or the
sequence order.
4 Verify the new settings.
5 Restart the voice messaging system.
Changing the message date and time stamp
The Absolute date/time stamp? field on

Application screen page 8 enables the system to include the exact date and time that
a message is received, when a caller
retrieves the message. For example, the
caller hears April 1 at 5 P.M. By default,
this field is set to Yes.
When this setting is disabled, the system
gives a relative date and time, such as three
days ago at 5 P.M.
To change the message date and time stamp

setting

page 8.
2 In the Absolute date/time stamp?
field, type the appropriate value and
press ENTER.
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enable the system for an exact message date
stamp, or n to disable the exact date. The correct time is always given. The default setting is
Yes.
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Controlling what appears onscreen
Because the system console is always left

on, it has a screen-saver feature that helps
prolong the life of the monitorthe Awaiting a key message appears onscreen during periods of keyboard inactivity. To
activate this feature, set the Blank PC
screen? field to Yes.
The Screen type field shows the type of
monitor detected during software installation. If you set this field to Auto, the voice
messaging system determines the screen
type.
To initiate a blank screen

page 8.
2 In the Blank PC screen? field, type y
and press ENTER.
To display the screen type

page 8.
2 In the Screen type field, type c
(color), m (monochrome), or auto
(autoselect) and press ENTER.

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Blank PC screen? Displays the message Awaiting a key onscreen after a few minutes of inactivity. Type y to activate the screen saver. When the
screen saver is active, press any key to restore the
screen. If you dont want to activate the screen
saver, type n.
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Screen type Displays the screen type in use.

Valid entries are C (color), M (monochrome), or
Auto (autoselect). Auto lets the voice messaging
system determine the screen type (C or M).
Scheduling an automatic
voice messaging system shutdown
To run utility programs, back up the system,
or generate reports, you can set up the voice
messaging system to shut down on a recurring basis. The system will automatically
exit to the system prompt.
To set up a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule

page 8.
2 In the OS Surrender Daily, Weekly, or
Monthly fields, enter the time for each
shutdown to occur and press ENTER.
To run a utility while the voice messaging system
is shut down
1 Type the command and parameters in

the C:\Daily.cmd, C:\Weekly.cmd, or
C:\Monthly.cmd file.
The last line of each file must be the
command to restart the voice messaging
system, or the system will not restart
after the last utility runs. The command
is included by default. To run more than
one utility, enter each command on a
separate line.
2 Type the full path for the utility. For
example, type
c:\util\restore.exe
Then, press ENTER.
See also
Shutting down and restarting the system......28
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OS surrender: daily Sets up a daily schedule for

the system to exit to the operating system. The
system shuts down and runs all commands that
appear in the Daily.cmd file. Use the format
hh:mmam.
OS surrender: weekly Sets up a weekly schedule for the system to exit to the operating system.
The system shuts down and runs all commands
that appear in the Weekly.cmd file. Enter days as
M T W H F S U, where H represents Thursday and
U represents Sunday. Use the hh:mmam format.
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OS surrender: monthly Sets up a monthly

schedule for the system to exit to the operating
system. The system shuts down and runs all commands that appear in the Monthly.cmd file. Specify the date for the day of the month for the
shutdown. For example, to specify a shutdown on
the ninth day of each month, enter 9. Also, specify the time in the hh:mmam format.
Sending error messages to subscribers
The voice messaging system can deliver

error messages by voice mail to a subscriber.
By default, the voice messaging system
sends these notices to the operator box. The
notices are then available to any subscriber
with public message access. You can direct
the system to send error messages to subscribers who dont have public message
access or you can disable this feature.
To set up error message notification

page 8.
2 In the Error notices to field, type the
personal IDs of subscribers, each separated by a comma, and press ENTER.
Error messages also appear as text at the bottom of the Banner screen. The system also
enters voice error messages in the call log file.
NOTE
To disable this feature, remove all personal IDs from this field and press
ENTER.

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Error notices to Accepts one or more personal

IDs (separated by commas) for subscribers who
should receive error notices by voice mail when
voice messaging system errors occur. Subscribers
who receive public messages also receive error
notices by voice mail. To discontinue sending
error notices, leave this field blank.
See also
Using the error log ................................... 500
Troubleshooting overview....................... 510
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Saving and storing messages
Most messages go through a retention lifecycle: from new to old to archived. New
messages are those messages which a subscriber has not yet heard. The Maximum
message life field on Application screen
page 9 sets the maximum time, in days, that
the system will retain a new message.
After a subscriber listens to a message, the
system stores it for a specified time as an old
message. Old messages are those which a
subscriber has heard but has not archived.
Typically, the system saves an old message
until midnight of the day it was received. An
old message must be archived to save it for a
longer period.
Archived messages are those which can be
saved for longer periods of time. Each time
a subscriber listens to an archived message,
it must be archived again to be saved; otherwise, it is deleted.
Public messages are not addressed to a particular subscriber and are available only to
those subscribers who have public message
access. The Public hold/archive messages
fields control how long public messages are
stored on the system once they have been
heard. The hold and archive values can be
changed for each subscriber from their personal directory page.
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To set the number of days the system retains a

new message

page 9.
2 Type the number of days in the Maximum message life field, and press
ENTER.
To set the number of days the system retains a
public message

page 9.
2 Type the number of days in the Public
hold/archive msgs fields, and press
ENTER.
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Public archive msgs Accepts the number of

days the voice messaging system retains archived
public messages. The voice messaging system
uses the number in this field to determine when an
archived public message is deleted.
Maximum message life Accepts the number of

days (up to 999) that the voice messaging system
retains new (unheard) messages. If you specify
999, a new message will be retained forever.
Any other setting will keep the new message for
that number of days.
Public hold msgs Accepts the number of days
the voice messaging system retains a public message that has been heard. Type 0 (zero) to retain
a public message until midnight of the day it is first
heard.
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Saving and storing call report data
Each day, the voice messaging system creates files that store data about its actions
and call traffic. The data is used when you
generate reports. You can set up the number
of days that the voice messaging system
stores these files. The voice messaging system deletes the files at midnight on the day
that they expire. You can store the files for
up to 365 days.
To set the number of days for generating reports

page 9.
2 In the Call report aging field, type the
number of days that you want the voice
messaging system to store the data that is
used to generate reports, and press ENTER.
NOTE
When creating reports, you must specify
start/stop dates. If you specify start/stop
dates that include more days than indicated in the Call report aging field, your
report contains data only for the number
of days in the Call report aging field.

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Call report aging Accepts the number of days

(up to 365) that the system stores daily files containing data about its actions and call traffic. The
system uses these daily files to create reports.
See also
Using call log information....................... 496
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Setting up directory assistance
A caller dials an extension number to reach

a particular subscriber. If callers do not
know the extension, they can reach the correct individual without assistance from an
operator by using automatic directory
assistance or numeric directory assistance.
Automatic directory assistance
The voice messaging system is already set
to use automatic (alphabetic) directory
assistance. A caller can find a subscribers
extension by spelling the persons name on
the phone keypad. The system plays the
name of the closest matching subscriber. If
the system finds more than one match, it
plays each possibility until the caller selects
one.
If you plan to use alphabetic directory assistance, enter each subscribers name in the
system in a consistent format, such as last
name, first name. If you do not want a subscriber to appear in automatic directory
assistance, use the appropriate access code
in the Access field on the subscribers personal directory page.
Numeric directory assistance

If your system is set up for phone keypads
without letters, or if callers phone keypads
do not have letters, you can provide
numeric directory assistance. In this case,
the system lets callers press numbers
instead of letters to search for a subscribers
extension. Numeric directory assistance
involves grouping subscribers by a common characteristic (such as department,
location, or schedule) and then creating a
menu of choices that assigns a single touchtone to each directory grouping. The caller
presses the touchtone assigned to the directory group. The system then plays back the
names of people in the group and their
extensions.
You can use both automatic (alphabetic)
directory assistance and numeric directory
assistance in the same voice messaging
system.
NOTE
If the Three character directory mode
field on Application screen page 9 is set to
No, the caller can find a subscribers
extension by typing the persons full last
name. Otherwise, if this field is set to Yes,
the caller is restricted to entering only the
first three letters of the name.
See also
Setting up directory assistance options ... 62
Specifying longer spelled name options ....160
Adding a remote site .....................................200
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SETTING UP DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
To set up the ID for numbered groups and

remote sites
To set up a system ID for accessing alphabetic


page 9.

page 9.
2 In the ID for numeric access to groups

and remote sites field, type the system
ID that callers use to reach numbered
groups and remote sites.
2 In the ID for alpha directory field, type

the system ID that callers dial to access
alphabetic directory assistance.
3 In the Auto xfers? field, type y.

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ID for numeric access to groups and remote

sites Accepts the system ID subscribers use to
reach numbered message groups and remote
sites. So that the voice messaging system does not
confuse extension number IDs with message
group numbers, subscribers first enter the system
ID for numbered groups, then the group number.
ID for alpha directory Accepts a system ID that
callers dial to access automatic (alphabetic) directory assistance. The default system ID is 555.
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Auto xfers? Turns on automatic call transfer.

Type y to automatically route a call to the subscriber whose name the caller has spelled, if there
is only one possible match. Type n to require a
caller to enter the extension ID for the subscriber,
even if there is only one match.
SETTING UP DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
To allow callers to enter system IDs during

numeric directory assistance

page 8.
2 In the Startup field, type mk1 or
mk2 and press ENTER. This creates a 1or 2-second pause that lets callers
bypass the one-key dialing options and
enter system IDs.
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Startup Accepts values that take effect when

you restart the voice messaging system. To allow
callers to enter full system IDs during directory
menus, type mk<n>, where <n> is the number
of seconds the voice messaging system waits
before routing a call to a destination on a directory menu.
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Specifying longer spelled name options
When a caller enters characters to identify a

subscriber or guest, the voice messaging
system typically listens for three characters
before presenting the caller with a list that
matches their input.
When the Three character directory mode
field on Application screen page 9 is set to
No, you enable the longer spelled name
option. This allows the voice messaging system to:
Prompt subscribers and guests for their

full last name.
Prompt callers for the longer spelled

name.
Adjust the time the voice messaging system listens for silence before presenting
the caller with a list that matches their
input.
NOTE
When the Three character directory mode
field is set to Yes, the voice messaging system ignores settings in the Directory time
out (ms) field and Directory max touchtones field.
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To enable longer spelled name options
1 If the voice messaging system has the

Hospitality package enabled, go to the
Hospitality setup screen and confirm
that the Give guest option to set spelled
name for directory? field is set to Yes.
page 9.
3 In the Three character directory mode
field, type n and press ENTER.
4 To set how long the voice messaging system listens for silence before listing subscribers, go to the Directory time out
(ms) field on line 76, type the appropriate value, and press ENTER.
5 To change the number of characters the
caller can enter to identify a subscriber,
go to the Directory max touchtones
field on line 76, type the appropriate
value, and press ENTER.
6 For each subscriber whose system name
starts with an alpha character and is followed by one or more digits, go to the
subscribers personal directory page and
enter their name in the format Last
name, First name.
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Three character directory mode Accepts one

of the following values to indicate whether the
caller can enter more than three characters to
identify a subscriber by last name:
Y Voice messaging system listens for three
characters before presenting the caller with a
list of subscribers whose names match the
input.
N Voice messaging system listens for the
number of characters specified in the Directory max touchtones field before presenting
the caller with a list of subscribers whose
names match the input.
Directory time out (ms) Accepts the number of

milliseconds (from 1000 to 9999) that the voice
messaging system listens to silence before presenting a list of subscribers that match the callers
input. The suggested value is 2000 (2 seconds).
Directory max touchtones Accepts the number of characters (from 1 to 30) a caller can enter
to identify a caller by last name. The default value
for this field is 3 characters.
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Limiting the number of times

unidentified callers can misdial
An unidentified caller is a subscriber, guest,
or nonsubscriber who accesses the voice
messaging system without entering a personal ID. The unidentified caller has no system
privileges and hears a different system conversation than a caller who enters a personal ID.
You can control the number of times an
unidentified caller enters an invalid system
ID before the voice messaging system takes
action. You can also specify the action the
voice messaging system takes when a caller
exceeds the number.
To limit the number of times a caller enters an

invalid system ID

page 9.
2 In the Max ID attempts field, type the
maximum number of times a caller can
enter an invalid system ID, and press
ENTER.
3 In the Bad ID Goto field, type the system ID callers are transferred to when
they enter more than the maximum
number of invalid IDs, and press ENTER.

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Max ID attempts Accepts the number of times

a subscriber is allowed to try to enter a valid personal ID.
See also
System IDs .................................................. 12
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Bad ID Goto Accepts the system ID that calls

are routed to when they exceed the maximum
number of personal ID attempts. If you leave this
field blank, callers will be disconnected when they
exceed the maximum number.
Setting up the public fax box
The public fax box provides fax detect, routing, and notification for incoming faxes.
This eliminates the need for a separate dedicated phone line for the fax machine.
The settings in the public fax box apply to
both manual and automatic fax calls. With
manual faxes, the caller sending the fax
dials your phone number from the phone
keypad on the fax machine, and listens to
the progress of the call on a speaker or
handset. When the voice messaging system
answers, the caller presses the fax extension
number, and can record a voice message
about the fax. The caller then presses the
Send or Start key to send the fax when he or
she hears the fax machines tone.
With automatic faxes, the caller sending the
fax sets his or her fax machine to send the
fax automatically. The caller does not have
to monitor the progress of the call.
With the settings in the public fax box, you

can:
Specify the extension that fax calls are

transferred to.
Change the call transfer type and number of rings allowed.
Determine the systems response if the

fax extension is busy or does not answer.
Give a person sending a manual fax the

option to hold.
Instruct the system to send a public

message when a fax call is transferred.
For more information on these settings, see

the field descriptions, starting on page 165.
NOTE
If you want the voice messaging system to
detect CNG (fax) tones and automatically
route fax calls to the public fax box, type
cng in the Startup field on Application
screen page 8.
For both types of fax calls, the system

immediately transfers the call to the fax
extension specified in the Transfer? field
on Application screen page 9, when it
answers a call and hears a fax tone.
See also
Setting up multiple fax machines ........... 167
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SETTING UP THE PUBLIC FAX BOX
To set up the public fax box
1 Connect the fax machine to a phone

extension. Note the actual extension
number.
3 In the Fax ID field, type a system ID
and press ENTER.
press ENTER.
5 In the unnamed field next to the Transfer? field, type the extension of the fax
machine and press ENTER.
6 In the unnamed field below the Transfer field, type the appropriate transfer
type and press ENTER.

then to allow call holding for callers
sending manual faxes, type y in the
Holding? field, and press ENTER.
8 In the Announce field, type the appropriate option for how you want the voice
messaging system to notify subscribers
when a fax arrives.
10 In the Startup field, type cng and
press ENTER.
This setting enables the voice messaging
system to detect fax tones. For this setting to take effect, shut down and restart
the system.
11 Rerecord the opening greeting so that it
mentions the public fax box and tells
callers sending manual faxes to enter the
system ID that you set up in step 3.
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you restart the voice messaging system. To set up
the voice messaging system to identify incoming
fax tones with the default settings, type cng. The
default settings are 1000 hertz, +/- 38 hertz, and
+/- 15% of cadence.
If you want to specify the fax tones (for example,

for international customers), type
cng=<frequency>,<dev>,<timedev>
For example, cng=1050,55,18 looks for a fax

carrier of 1050 hertz, +/- 55 hertz, and +/- 18% of
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Fax ID Accepts the system ID callers dial to

manually send faxes.
Voice name Accesses the recorded name of the
public fax box.
Transfer? Turns on call transfer to the fax

machine number. Type y to turn on call transfer.
Otherwise, type n.
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Call transfer type Accepts one of the following

transfer types for use with the public fax box:
dials the specified extension or phone number. If answered within the number of rings
to this box. If busy or not answered, plays a
greeting, then takes the action indicated in the
Alt action field.
specified extension or phone number, and
and dials the specified extension or phone
number. If busy, plays the greeting, then takes
the action indicated in the Alt action field. If
in the Rings field, transfers the call. If busy or
not answered, the caller cannot leave a message unless the phone system transfers the call
using call forward to personal greeting.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is transferred. This setting applies only if the call transfer type is Await
Holding? Turns on call holding for the public fax
box. Type y to turn on call holding. Otherwise,
type n. When call holding is set to Yes, callers
sending faxes manually can press 1 to hold or #
to try another extension. You can use call holding
only with the Await answer or Wait for ringback call transfer types.
Alt action Accepts one of the following values

for the action you want the voice messaging system to take if the fax extension does not answer or
is busy:
O (Transfer to operator) Routes the call to
the operator box.
H (Hang up)
good-bye.
R (Restart) Returns the call to the opening

greeting.
another system ID.
Announce Accepts one of the following values
to tell the voice messaging system how to notify
subscribers when a public fax has been received
and whether to ask callers sending faxes manually
to leave a message describing the fax and who it
is for. If you use fax notification, the system sends
this notice to everyone with public message
access.
A (Always) Prompts the caller to record a
message and sends a public notification message when the fax call is transferred.
V (Voice) Prompts the caller to record a message and sends a public notification message
when the fax call is transferred only if the caller
records a voice message.
N (Never) Does not prompt the caller to
record a message, and does not send a public
notification message when the fax call is transferred.
P (Post) Does not prompt the caller to record
a message, but sends a public notification
message when the fax call is transferred.
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Setting up multiple fax machines
Overview of how to set up a fax

machine hunt group with transaction
boxes
The public fax box can route incoming fax

calls to a single fax machine that is set up
on an extension on the phone system. It is
also possible to connect more than one fax
machine on the system. To do this, set up
the extension for the public fax box as a
hunt group on the phone system. Then, if a
fax extension is busy when another fax
comes in, the phone system can transfer
the call to another fax extension in the hunt
group. The voice messaging system receives
a busy signal only if all extensions in the
hunt group are busy.
1 Plan your hunt group.

Create a flowchart of the boxes that
will make up the hunt group. Each fax
machine requires a transaction box.
2 Create transaction boxes for the fax
machines.
Using your flowchart, set up each transaction box. This step is described in the
topic Adding and removing transaction
boxes on page 348.
If your phone system does not support hunt

groups, you can use the public fax box and
additional transaction boxes to set up a fax
machine hunt group in the voice messaging
system.
3 Connect the new transaction boxes to

the public fax box.
This step is described in the procedure
To set up multiple fax machines on
page 168.
4 Test the fax setup.
Make the first fax machine busy, then
send a fax to your system. Repeat for
other fax machines in the group. Check
to see that the hunt group routes each
fax call properly.
See also
Adding and removing transaction boxes...348
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SETTING UP MULTIPLE FAX MACHINES
To set up multiple fax machines
1 Create a new transaction box for each of

your fax machines, as described in the
topic Adding and removing transaction
boxes on page 348.
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2 Go to the Transaction box screen and do

the following:
In the Day? and/or Night? transfer field of each transaction box, type
y and enter the extension number of
the fax machine.
In the Day or Night greeting field,

record a second of silence for all
boxes except the last box in the flowchart. For this box, record a greeting
that informs callers that all of the fax
machines are currently busy and to
try again later. See Making a recording on page 428.
In the Day or Night action field of

the first transaction box, type g (Go
to system ID) and type the system ID
of the next transaction box in your
flowchart.
Repeat the first three parts of step 2

for all remaining transaction boxes.
In the Day or Night action field of

the last transaction box, type s (Say
good-bye).
Transaction box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Transaction box of Simmons, Sandy
Voice name: 0:01
Language: ES
Schedule #: 1
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Day? Yes-->123
| Day: 0:01 | Day: GotoID--> 345
Nite? Yes-->456
| Nite: 0:01 | Nite: GotoID--> 345
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Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
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2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
T R A N S A C T I O N
Fax 3
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Day? or Night? transfer Turns call transfer on

or off for night or day mode. Type y to turn on
call transfer during both day mode and night
mode. Then type the fax machine extension number to which the voice messaging system transfers
fax calls. Type n to turn off call transfer.
Day, Night, or Alternate greeting Accesses
the recording for the appropriate transaction
boxs greeting (Day, Night, or Alt).
Day or Night action Accepts values for the

action you want the voice messaging system to
take after playing the greeting. To set up multiple
fax machines, type one of the following values for
the appropriate transaction boxes in your flowchart:
S (Say good-bye) Plays a prompt asking if the
caller needs further assistance, pauses, says
good-bye, and then disconnects.
another system ID.
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To set up multiple fax machines, continued

4 In the Transfer? field, type n.
5 In the Alt action field, type g (Go to
system ID) and then type the system ID
of the first transaction box in your flowchart.
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| Holding? No
| Announce: Always
Transfer? Turns on call transfer to the fax

machine number. Type y to turn on call transfer.
Otherwise, type n.
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Alt action Accepts values for the action you

want the voice messaging system to take if the fax
extension does not answer or is busy. When setting up multiple fax machines, type g (Go to system ID) and the system ID of the first transaction
box in the hunt group to route the call to another
fax machine.
R 9
Fax mail setup
Fax setup overview........................................... 172

Setting up fax ports.......................................... 174
Changing the default fax dialout and
connect time settings ...................................... 176
Changing the fax transmit settings................. 178
Changing the fax delivery
bundle size setting ........................................... 179
Changing the default fax delivery
retry settings .................................................... 180
feature for fax-on-demand .............................. 183
Creating a custom fax mail cover sheet ......... 185
CHAPTER 9: FAX MAIL SETUP
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Fax setup overview
The optional ActiveFax package adds two

components to the voice messaging system:
fax-on-demand and fax mail. This chapter
provides instructions for setting up the
ActiveFax package.
You use four screens to set up fax mail and

fax-on-demand:
Specific fax topics are covered in Chapter 7,

Default Subscriber, and Chapter 12, Personal Directory. Fax-on-demand topics are
covered in Chapter 15, Fax Library.
Fax Setup screen
Fax Library screen
Setup steps for the ActiveFax package

1 Install the ActiveFax software on the
voice messaging computer.
If you purchased ActiveFax as part of a
new voice messaging system, the software is already installed. Continue with
step 2.
If you are adding ActiveFax to an existing
system:
4 Set up fax transmittal information, if

needed.
See Changing the fax transmit settings
on page 178.
5 Set up fax delivery bundle size, if
needed.
See Changing the fax delivery bundle
size setting on page 179.
Confirm that the voice messaging

system meets all system requirements. See System requirements in
Chapter 2 of the Installation Guide.
6 Set up fax delivery retry attempts, if

needed.
See Changing the default fax delivery
retry settings on page 180.
Install the ActiveFax software. See

Adding a feature package in Chapter 8 of the Installation Guide. Then,
set up the fax ports as described in
step 2.
7 Configure the North American

SmartDialing feature for fax-ondemand, if needed.
See Configuring the North American
SmartDialing feature for fax-ondemand on page 183.
2 Set up the fax ports.

See Setting up fax ports on page 174.
3 Change default fax settings, if needed.
See Changing the default fax dialout
and connect time settings on page 176.
172
8 Create a custom fax mail cover sheet, if

needed.
See Creating a custom fax mail cover
sheet on page 185.
FAX SETUP OVERVIEW
Fax Setup screen

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FAX SETUP
Port A | Port B | Port C | Port D
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
3. Max pages per delivery: 20
Maximum documents per call: 3
4. Fax outdial access: 9
Fax connect wait-time: 45 secs
5. Attempts per set: 2
Delay between sets: 3 min
Number of sets: 3
6. Use North American SmartDialing? Yes
Home area code: 206
Call outside home area code? Yes Prefix for other area codes: 1
Call non-local exchanges? Yes
Prefix for non-local exchanges: 1
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
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Setting up fax ports
You can use a combination of fax port settings to meet your needs. For example, you
can dedicate a fax port to sending faxes,
receiving faxes, or both. How you set up the
fax ports depends on how often the ports
are used to deliver fax mail and fax-ondemand faxes and how often the ports must
support incoming fax traffic.
NOTES
For voice messaging systems with a single fax port, set the fax port to A/D. For
systems with two or more fax ports, set
the last fax port to A/D and the rest to
Ans.
The Dial setting, which dedicates a fax

port to just sending faxes, can tie up a
port for long periods of time. For this reason, avoid assigning too many ports with
this setting. Otherwise, callers may be
prevented from reaching a fax port or
forced to wait on hold.
If most subscribers will be sending fax

mail to a single in-house fax machine,
you only need to have a single fax port
dialing out (use the A/D setting).
See also
Setting up multiple fax machines ........... 167
174
To set up fax ports

page 8.
2 In the Startup field, type cng and
press ENTER.
This step enables the voice messaging
system to detect a fax tone. The default
value CNG works for most CCITT
group 3 fax communications.
3 Go to line 1 on the Fax Setup screen.
4 For each fax port, type the appropriate
value for how you want to use the port.
SETTING UP FAX PORTS

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51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
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Short ending: 4
Long ending: 5
Beep on record? Yes
mins left

Screen type: Auto
Monthly: 1 2:00am
62. Startup: CNG
Error notices to: 0

you restart the voice messaging system.
To set up the voice messaging system to identify

incoming fax tones, type cng.
Fax Setup screen

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FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Fax port status Controls and sets the status for

each fax port. Type any of the following values:
Ans (Answer, no dial out) Accepts incoming
faxes for fax mail and does not dial out to
deliver faxes.
A/D (Answer/Dial out) Accepts incoming
faxes for fax mail only. When it is not answering a fax call, the fax port dials out to deliver
faxes for fax mail and fax-on-demand.
Dial (Dial out only) Dedicated to dialing out

to send faxes. It does not accept incoming
faxes for fax mail.
Off (for fax-on-demand only) Dedicates the
fax port to accepting document submissions
to the fax library. While the port is set to Off,
it does not dial out to deliver faxes. If the voice
messaging system uses fax mail, then the Off
setting leaves the fax port idle and unable to
receive or deliver faxes through fax mail.
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Changing the default fax dialout

and connect time settings
The dialout and connect time settings control how the voice messaging system dials
out to reach a fax machine.
When dialing external fax numbers, the
voice messaging system uses a fax outdial
access number to reach an external phone
line for the fax ports.
The voice messaging system automatically
dials the fax outdial access number before
dialing any fax number that contains six or
more digits. The default setting of this number is 9, (9 comma).
The outdial access number is not used
when:
Fax ports are connected directly to an

external line.
The fax phone number is less than five

digits.
The default fax connect time setting is the

amount of time the fax board waits for a fax
tone after dialing out. You can change this
setting in the Fax connect wait-time field.
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To modify the default fax outdial access number

2 In the Fax outdial access field, type the
value you want and press ENTER.
3 To disable the fax outdial access number, insert a comma in front of the number.
CHANGING THE DEFAULT FAX DIALOUT AND CONNECT TIME SETTINGS
To modify the default setting for the amount of

time the fax board waits for a fax tone

2 In the Fax connect wait-time field,
type the time, in seconds, that you want
the fax board to wait.
Fax Setup screen
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Page 10 of 12
FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
4. Fax outdial access: 9,
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Fax outdial access Sets the outdial access number that the voice messaging system dials to get
an external line.
Fax connect wait-time Accepts the number of

seconds the voice messaging system waits to
listen for a fax tone after dialing out.
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Changing the fax transmit settings
A fax document usually includes a line at

the top of the page that contains information about the sender. This line is called the
transmit terminal information (TTI) line.
The CSID and Additional TTI? fields on
the Fax Setup screen control how this line
prints on a fax document.
To change fax transmittal information
1 Go to the Fax Setup screen.

2 In the CSID field, type your establishment's fax number and press ENTER.
This number will appear at the top of the
cover sheet, at the top of each faxed
page, and on the transmission report of
the receiving fax machine.
3 Go to the Additional TTI? field.
If you want to add additional information, such as the date and time
sent, to the top of each fax page, type
y and press ENTER.
If you want only the fax number that

you typed in the CSID field to
appear at the top of each fax page,
type n and press ENTER.
Fax Setup screen

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Page 10 of 12
FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
CSID Sets the call station ID (CSID) that appears

in the TTI line of a fax sent from the system. The
CSID is the phone number callers dial to send a
fax. This field applies to all fax ports and is shared
by both fax mail and fax-on-demand.
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Additional TTI? Adds a second TTI line at the

top of each fax page. The system then prints two
lines at the top of each page when you type y in
this field: the delivery information (from the voice
messaging system to the recipient); and the original transmission information (from the sender to
the voice messaging system).
Changing the fax delivery bundle size setting
You can control the number of pages and

the number of documents sent in a fax
delivery.
If the number of pages in a fax exceeds the
Max pages per delivery setting on the Fax
Setup screen, the voice messaging system
parcels the fax into bundles and transmits
each bundle separately.
The Maximum documents per call field
applies to fax-on-demand only, not to fax
mail. The recommended setting for this
field is from 3 to 5. You can reduce transmission errors by setting this field to a low
value.
To change the fax delivery bundle size

2 In the Max pages per delivery field,
type the maximum number of pages you
want in a bundle.
3 In the Maximum documents per call
field, type the maximum number of
documents that a caller can request
from the fax library in a single call.
Fax Setup screen

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Page 10 of 12
FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Max pages per delivery Controls the number

of pages transmitted in a fax delivery, excluding
the fax mail cover sheet.
Maximum documents per call Accepts a number, from 1 to 35, to set the maximum number of
documents a caller can request in a single call.
This setting applies to all fax ports and is used only
by fax-on-demand.
See also
Fax-on-demand overview ....................... 390
179
Changing the default fax delivery retry settings
If your voice messaging system calls a fax

machine that is busy or unavailable, the
voice messaging system retries delivering
the fax. You can change the retry strategy
that the system uses.
You can change the retry strategy by setting

the retry parameters on the Fax Setup
screen. These parameters, found on line 5,
consist of the Attempts per set, Delay
between sets, and Number of sets fields.
The default settings for the retry attempts

are set up during installation. In general,
these default settings are adequate to control how many times and how often the system will retry the fax transmission. The
system follows the default retry strategy
shown on line 5 of the Fax Setup screen, on
page 182.
If you plan to change the default retry settings, consider the following:
When the system stops trying to deliver a

fax, the following happens:
For fax mail, the system provides an

error message in the subscribers fax box.
The subscriber can send the fax again
until the fax message becomes old.
For fax-on-demand, the system adds an

error message to the call log and displays
an error message on the Banner screen.
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Because the voice messaging system

must wait for a free fax port to dial out,
busy fax ports may cause a longer delay
between sets of attempts than your
specified settings. The delay between
sets, however, is never less than the
value that you specify.
Fax mail uses the values you specify only

on requested fax mail deliveries. For
automatic deliveries, the resend
attempts are determined by the values in
the Fax delivery fields, which are set on
the subscribers personal directory page.
CHANGING THE DEFAULT FAX DELIVERY RETRY SETTINGS
To change fax delivery retry attempts
1 Go to the Fax Setup screen.

2 In the Attempts per set, Delay
between sets, and Number of sets
fields, type the new values.
Continued
181
CHANGING THE DEFAULT FAX DELIVERY RETRY SETTINGS
Fax Setup screen

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FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Attempts per set Accepts the maximum number of attempts the system makes in a set. These
attempts are performed when a call results in a
busy signal. The default is 2.
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Delay between sets Accepts the interval, in

minutes, between each set of attempts. The
default is 3.
Number of sets Accepts the number of
grouped attempts before quitting. The default
is 3.

feature for fax-on-demand
With the North American SmartDialing
option, you can control long-distance
charges by limiting fax-on-demand deliveries to local or restricted long-distance numbers within the United States or Canada.
Every phone number in the United States
and Canada consists of three parts: the area
code, the exchange, and the station code.
For example: 206-555-1234.
With the North American SmartDialing feature, you must specify your local area code
and local exchanges. You then set up the
system to allow or disable fax-on-demand
deliveries outside these local prefixes.
The North American SmartDialing option

lets you restrict the area codes and
exchanges that your system can dial to
deliver a fax using fax-on-demand. You can
set up the system to allow only local calls,
only long-distance calls within the home
area code, or any long-distance call within
the United States and Canada. By defining
limits on which phone numbers the system
is allowed to dial, you can control longdistance charges.
NOTE
Due to recent area code changes, this feature may not be supported in all areas.
To restrict the dialing area for fax-on-demand calls

2 In the Use North American SmartDialing? field, type y and press ENTER.
3 In the Home area code field, type the
local area code and press ENTER.
4 In the Call outside home area code?
field, type y or n and press ENTER.
5 If you typed y in the previous step,
then in the Prefix for other area codes
field, type either 1 or the long-distance
carrier access code and press ENTER.
6 In the Call non-local exchanges? field,
type y or n and press ENTER.
7 In the Prefix for nonlocal exchanges

field, type the digits that the voice messaging system needs to dial to reach a
nonlocal number within the local area
code (the digit is typically 1 or 1 plus
the area code), and press ENTER.
8 Insert the cursor in the Local
exchanges area and press F8. In the
dialog box, type the three-digit local
exchange number or a range of numbers, and press ENTER.
NOTE
In the phone number 1-907-555-1234,
555 is the local exchange number. See
your phone directory or local phone
company for a list of local exchange
numbers in your area.
Continued
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CONFIGURING THE NORTH AMERICAN SMARTDIALING FEATURE FOR FAX-ON-DEMAND
Fax Setup screen

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Page 10 of 12
FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Use North American SmartDialing? Accepts

y to enable and n to disable the setting. When
enabled, the system uses this setting with fax-ondemand to dial phone numbers in the United
States and Canada.
Home area code Accepts the local area code
used when North American SmartDialing is
enabled for fax-on-demand.
Call outside home area code? Specifies
whether the system dials outside the specified
local area codes. Use this field when North American SmartDialing is enabled for fax-on-demand.
Accepts y to dial outside the specified local area
code, or n to disable the setting. The N setting, which is the default, prevents the voice messaging system from dialing phone numbers with a
nonlocal area code.
Prefix for other area codes Specifies the longdistance access code required before the system
can dial an area code and phone number that is
different from the home area code. Use this field
when North American SmartDialing is enabled for
fax-on-demand. Add pauses to the access code by
typing one or more commas (,). Do not use semicolons (;).
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Call non-local exchanges? Allows the voice

messaging system to dial nonlocal exchanges for
fax delivery within your local area code. Accepts
y to enable and n to disable the setting. Use
this field when North American SmartDialing is
enabled for fax-on-demand. The N setting,
which is the default, prevents the voice messaging
system from dialing phone numbers that are outside the local exchanges.
Prefix for non-local exchanges Accepts the
digits the voice messaging system dials to reach
nonlocal numbers in the home area code. Use this
field when North American SmartDialing is
enabled for fax-on-demand. Add pauses to the
access code by typing one or more commas (,). Do
not use semicolons (;).
Local exchanges Accepts all the three-digit
exchanges that are local calls from the system.
Creating a custom fax mail cover sheet
ActiveFax attaches a fax mail cover sheet to

every fax delivery. This cover sheet appears
in addition to any cover sheet included by
the sender.
The voice messaging system creates separate cover sheets for fax-on-demand and
fax mail. This topic describes how to create
a custom fax mail cover sheet. Procedures
for creating a custom cover sheet for faxon-demand are described in the topic Creating a custom fax-on-demand cover sheet
on page 401. Changing the fax mail cover
sheet does not affect the cover sheet used
for fax-on-demand.
The fax mail cover sheet has three parts:
subscriber and delivery information, a contents summary, and a logo.
Contents summary
The contents summary includes the date
and time the voice messaging system
received the fax, information about the
sender, and whether the fax was split into
multiple bundles.
Fax mail cover sheet logo

ActiveFax adds a default logo to the fax mail
cover sheet. You can replace the default
logo with a logo of your choice. Before you
begin, confirm that your logo meets these
specifications:
The logo image must be stored as a standard mode Group 3 TIFF file (tag image
file format, with a .tif extension).
The size of the paper you fax into the

system can be no larger than 8.5 wide
by 6 tall (for A4 paper size: 22 cm by 15
cm) so that the system does not cut off
the subscriber and delivery information
or the contents summary at the bottom.
The logo image, which appears on the

top of the fax mail cover sheet, can be no
larger than 6 wide by 4 tall (15 cm by
10 cm). The logo must be in black and
whitecolors and shades of grey are not
supported.
Subscriber and delivery information

The system uses the information on a subscribers personal directory page to fill in
this part of the fax mail cover sheet. The
subscriber and delivery information
includes the name of the subscriber who
received the fax, the total number of pages
in the fax, when the fax mail delivery was
initiated, whether the fax was delivered in
one or multiple bundles, and whether the
delivery is complete or additional bundles
are following.
See also
Setting up the fax library ......................... 392
Continued
185
CREATING A CUSTOM FAX MAIL COVER SHEET
Removing a fax mail cover sheet logo

You can remove a custom fax mail cover
sheet logo, leaving that part of the cover
sheet blank or restoring the default logo.
To create a custom fax mail cover sheet
1 Create a paper original with your logo

and cover sheet information on it.
2 Add this document to the fax library. For
information on adding a fax document,
see the procedure To add documents to
the fax library on page 396.
3 Create the Fax Document Report to
obtain the file name of the new document. For information on generating
this report, see Chapter 18, Reports.
4 Go to the Banner screen.
5 Press ESC to exit, type y, and then enter
your system manager ID.
6 From the OS/2 desktop, go to the command prompt. At the command prompt,
go to the \Vmail\Fax\Send directory.
7 Copy the existing Fmcover.tif file to a
disk to save it as a backup. For example,
type
copy fmcover.tif a:\
and press ENTER.

8 Return to the \Vmail directory. Type
fmlogo file <file name>
where <file name> is the file name you

obtained from the Fax Document
Report, and press ENTER.
10 Send a test fax mail message to confirm
that the new logo and cover sheet print
properly.
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CREATING A CUSTOM FAX MAIL COVER SHEET
To remove the fax mail cover sheet logo
To restore the default fax cover sheet logo
1 At the Banner screen, press ESC to exit.

Type y, and then enter your system
manager ID.
1 At the Banner screen, press ESC to exit.

Type y, and then enter your system
manager ID.
3 Copy the existing Fmcover.tif file to a

disk. For example, type
3 Type
copy fmcover.tif a:\
and press ENTER.

4 Type
fmlogo blank
and press ENTER. This command suppresses the cover sheet logo.
fmlogo origlogo
and press ENTER. This command

restores the cover sheet logo.
that the new cover sheet prints properly.

that the new cover sheet prints properly.
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C H A P T E R 1 0
Multisite
Messaging
Multisite Messaging overview......................... 190
Using the alternate method for the first

directory update............................................... 207
Multisite Messaging setup .............................. 192

Exporting directory information ..................... 208
Site information................................................ 193
Importing directory information ..................... 212
Setting up a local site ...................................... 196
Testing the Multisite Messaging network...... 215
Setting remote site defaults............................ 198
Restricting special delivery options................ 216
Adding a remote site....................................... 200
Directory update methods
for PLUSNET-1 sites ......................................... 204
Message groups and Multisite

Messaging ........................................................ 218
Multisite Messaging training........................... 219
Using the manual method for the first

directory update............................................... 206
CHAPTER 10: MULTISITE MESSAGING
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Multisite Messaging overview
Multisite Messaging, also known as

ActiveNet, is an optional package that
provides communications between multiple voice messaging systems. You set up
Multisite Messaging on the Networking
Setup screen and the Remote Network Site
screen, shown on page 191.
With Multisite Messaging, you can choose a
message delivery schedule, control the use
of special delivery options, and set up message groups. Each site or office is set up as a
local site on the sites own voice messaging
system; all other voice messaging systems
are set up as remote sites. You can add an
unlimited number of sites to your system.
Multisite messaging is most effective when
used for the delivery of routine, non-urgent
messages, which can be delivered overnight
or on the weekend when long-distance
phone rates are lowest.
NOTE
Urgent messages are not sent immediately,
but according to the scheduled batch delivery time. For this reason, you may want to
bypass using Multisite Messaging altogether
for urgent messages.
Multisite messaging features

Multisite messaging offers the following primary features. The availability of some features depends on the protocols you use,
which are described in Site information
on page 193.
Communicates with voice messaging
systems by other manufacturers
The multisite messaging voice messaging system uses either the AMIS (Audio
Messaging Interchange Specification) or
PLUSNET-1 protocols. To communicate
with another manufacturers voice messaging system, contact that systems
manufacturer to confirm that it is compatible with one of these protocols.
Uses analog phone lines
No special phone lines are required. The
voice messaging systems exchange data
by using standard touchtones. Multisite
messaging delivers messages from a
remote site directly to a subscribers
mailbox for retrieval just like any other
voice message.
Supports private phone networks
Multisite messaging supports system
numbers for private and public phone
networks.
Controls costs
If calls between sites involve longdistance charges, you can schedule message delivery between sites to occur during evening hours when the charges are
lowest.
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MULTISITE MESSAGING OVERVIEW
Networking Setup screen

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NETWORKING SETUP
Local Network Site Setup:
Page 11 of 12
Local Site Country Code: 011

Area Code: 206
Phone Number: 5555555
Private ID: 10364
Accept Incoming Network Calls? Yes
Allow Outgoing Network Calls? Yes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Defaults for each new Remote Network Site:
Restrictions: S
Phone #1: 6666666
Phone #2: 7777777
Maximum Failed Calls Allowed: 3

2:00am- 4:00am MTWHFSU
4 rings every
4 rings every
30 min, Batch
30 min, Off

R E M O T E
Public Network Site
N E T W O R K
S I T E
Remote Site Name: Remote Sales

Voice Name: 0:02
Remote Site Country Code: 011
Area Code: 206 Phone Number: 5555555
Protocol: PLUSNET-1
Restrictions: S
Outgoing calls ------------------| Incoming calls ---------------------------Last Call:
| Last Call:
Status:
| Status:
Msgs Sent:
Received:
| Msgs Sent:
Received:
|
Total failed calls: 0
|
Maximum failed calls allowed: 3 |
---------------------------- Message delivery -------------------------------Phone #1: 6666666
2:00am- 4:00am MTWHFSU 4 rings every 30 min, Batch
Phone #2:
rings every
min,
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Multisite Messaging setup
To install and set up Multisite Messaging,

perform the following steps:
1 Install Multisite Messaging.

If Multisite Messaging was purchased as
part of a new voice messaging system,
the ActiveNet software is already
installed. Continue with step 2.
If you are adding Multisite Messaging to
an existing system:
Confirm that the voice messaging

system meets all system requirements. See the topic System requirements in Chapter 2 of the
Installation Guide.
Install the Multisite Messaging software. See the topic Adding a feature
package in Chapter 8 of the Installation Guide.
2 Restrict use of special delivery options.

Special delivery options between networked sites function differently than
those between subscribers at the same
site. You can restrict the use of delivery
options between networked sites by
using access codes. For details, see
Restricting special delivery options on
page 216.
3 Assemble the local and remote site
information.
See Site information on page 193.
192
4 Set up each voice messaging systems

local site information.
See Setting up a local site on page 196.
5 Set up remote site defaults on the
voice messaging system.
See Setting remote site defaults on
page 198.
6 Add all remote sites to each voice
messaging system.
See Adding a remote site on page 200.
7 Choose a first directory update
method for PLUSNET-1 sites.
For AMIS sites, skip to step 9.
For PLUSNET-1 sites, see Directory
update methods for PLUSNET-1 sites
on page 204.
8 Perform the first directory update for

PLUSNET-1 sites.
See Using the manual method for the
first directory update on page 206, and
Using the alternate method for the first
directory update on page 207.
9 Test the Multisite Messaging network.
See Testing the Multisite Messaging
network on page 215.
Site information
Each voice messaging system in the Multisite Messaging network is a site. The system
located where you are is the local site. Every
other system that the voice messaging system communicates with is a remote site.
The terms local site and remote site are
relative, depending on which voice messaging system you use as a starting point of reference.
The first step in setting up a Multisite Messaging network is to assemble the information for each site and determine which sites
need to communicate with each other. See
the Multisite Messaging planning worksheet on page 195.
As part of assembling site information, you
need to determine which sites use the AMIS
protocol and which use the PLUSNET-1
protocol.
Multisite messaging protocols

A different set of features and functions are
available to subscribers depending on the
protocol used between the multisite messaging sites. Multisite messaging supports
both the AMIS and PLUSNET-1 protocols
for communication between sites. The
table on page 194 compares the features
and functions for each protocol.
The protocol used between a local and

remote site depends on the protocols set up
at both the local site and the remote site.
You can check which protocol your site is
set up for and then check which protocol is
set up on the Remote Network Site screen
for each remote site. Both the local and
remote site must use the same protocol
(PLUSNET-1 or AMIS) in order for Multisite
Messaging to work.
AMIS
AMIS is a widely used messaging interchange protocol. AMIS supports the
most common voice messaging functions including sending, receiving, and
replying to messages.
For details about the AMIS protocol, see
Audio Messaging Interchange Specification Analog Protocol, Version 1, Issue 2,
available from the Information Industry
Association in Washington, D.C.
PLUSNET-1
The PLUSNET-1 protocol is an extension
of AMIS that provides advanced messaging features, including urgent and private messages, unlimited number of
messages per call, unlimited message
length, and unlimited number of recipients per message.
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SITE INFORMATION
Multisite messaging features under the PLUSNET-1 and AMIS protocols

Features and functions
PLUSNET-1
AMIS
Voice format
Analog
Analog
Send, receive, and reply
Send and receive messages during the same call
Send messages to subscribers
Send messages to groups
Identify subscribers by extension
Identify subscribers or groups by name
Hear sender or receiver voice name
Urgent messages
Private messages
Return receipt: gives time of message transmission
Return receipt: gives time message was received
Future messages
**
***
Time stamp reflects time of message transmission

Time stamp reflects time message was recorded
Notification of message not received
Error notification: console and voice error notices
Directory update: automatic and manual
Maximum number of messages per call
Unlimited
Maximum number of recipients per message
Unlimited
Maximum message length
Unlimited
8 minutes
* Messages are transmitted after the batch

message delivery interval.
** Messages are transmitted after the batch
message delivery interval, and the
subscriber is not informed that the message
is urgent.
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*** The receiving subscriber is not informed

that the message was prerecorded.
SITE INFORMATION
Multisite Messaging planning worksheet

After determining which protocol is used
for each site, complete the Multisite Messaging planning worksheet for your site.
Then fill in the information for each of the
other sites in the network.
Local site setup
Site name ____________________________________
System ______________________________________
Phone _______________________________________
Mailing address ______________________________
Fax _________________________________________
____________________________________________
E-mail _______________________________________
____________________________________________
PLUSNET-1 used at local site?
Yes
Public (PSTN) Phone number
If yes, what is available hard disk size? ___________
No
_____________________________________________
Private Network Private ID
____________________________________________
Country code/Area or city code/Telephone number

Optional Restrictions:
No incoming network calls
No outgoing network calls
Remote site setup

Site name ____________________________________
PLUSNET-1
Directory update type _________________________
PLUSNET-1
Directory update type _________________________
Deliver schedule _____ A.M./P.M. to _____ A.M./P.M.

Mon Tue Wed THu Fri Sat SUn
AMIS
Site name ____________________________________
Phone number or private ID ____________________
Phone number or private ID ____________________

Deliver schedule _____ A.M./P.M. to _____ A.M./P.M.
Mon Tue Wed THu Fri Sat SUn
AMIS
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Setting up a local site
It is necessary to set up the Multisite Messaging local site before it can communicate
with remote sites. Use the information collected on the Multisite Messaging planning
worksheet to set up your local voice messaging system as a local site.
To set up a local site
1 At the local site, sign in to the voice messaging system console.

2 Go to the Networking Setup screen.
3 In the Local network site setup fields,
type the sites Local site country code,
Area code, and Phone number in the
fields provided. These three fields make
up the number that the local site uses to
identify itself to the remote sites when it
tries to deliver messages.
NOTE
The numbers you type in the Local site
country code, Area code, and Phone
number fields on the Networking Setup
screen must be identical to the numbers
typed in the corresponding fields on the
Remote Network Site screen on the
remote systems.
4 Leave the default settings for the Accept
incoming network calls? and Allow
outgoing network calls? fields as they
are. Changing these fields to No disables Multisite Messaging.
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SETTING UP A LOCAL SITE

E A S Y M A D E
NETWORKING SETUP
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Area Code: 206
Private ID: 10364
Restrictions: S
Phone #1: 6666666
Phone #2: 7777777

4 rings every
4 rings every
Local site country code Accepts the country

code for the system number that identifies a site.
Area code Accepts the area code for the system
number that identifies a site.
Phone number Accepts the phone number for
the system number that identifies a site.
30 min, Batch
30 min, Off
Accept incoming network calls? Type y to

accept message delivery calls from other network
sites. Type n to disallow the calls.
Allow outgoing network calls? Type y to
make message delivery calls to other network
sites. Type n to disallow the calls.
Private ID Accepts a system number, up to 14

characters, for a private network multisite messaging site. A network site has either a public system
number (country code, area or city code, and
phone number), which accesses the site on the
public (PSTN) network, or it has a Private ID, which
accesses the site on a private network by using a
private carrier providing communications services.
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Setting remote site defaults
To make setting up remote sites easier, you

can define default settings to be used when
you add a new remote site. You define these
settings in the Defaults for each new
remote network site fields on the Networking Setup screen. After you add a remote site
based on these settings, you can change
individual settings for that site later.
NOTE
The message delivery schedule must be set
up in order for Multisite Messaging to function.
To set remote site defaults
1 Go to the Defaults for each new remote

network site fields on the Networking
Setup screen.
2 In the Restrictions field, type the applicable restriction value.
3 Type a value in the Maximum failed
calls allowed field, and press ENTER.
4 Leave the Phone #1 and Phone #2
fields blank, because each remote site
will have a different phone number.
Instead, at the Remote Site screen, enter
a message delivery number to enable
Multisite Messaging.
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5 In the Delivery schedule fields, type

the hours and days during which the
local site attempts delivery to remote
sites.
6 Type a value in the Rings field and
press ENTER.
7 Type a value in the Notification interval field and press ENTER.
8 To activate batch message delivery, type
b (Batch) in the Delivery method field
and press ENTER.
SETTING REMOTE SITE DEFAULTS

E A S Y M A D E
NETWORKING SETUP
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Area Code: 206
Private ID: 10364
Restrictions: S
Phone #1: 6666666
Phone #2: 7777777

4 rings every
4 rings every
Restrictions Accepts the following values, which

restrict the use of multisite messaging to remote
sites:
O (Outgoing) The local site can only receive
messages from remote sites.
S (Screen) The local site can only deliver messages to remote sites.
Maximum failed calls allowed Accepts the
maximum number of times the local site tries to
connect with a remote site before quitting when
the remote site does not answer or encounters a
communications problem, such as establishing a
common protocol.
Phone #1 and Phone #2 Accepts the phone
number or extension for remote sites to dial for
message delivery. The default is a blank field.
Delivery schedule Accepts the delivery schedule for messages from the local site's voice messaging system sent to the remote site. When
delivery schedules overlap, messages are delivered to all phone numbers in the overlapping
time. In the Hours field, use the hh:mmam
(9:00am) format. In the Days field, use M T W H
F S U for the days of the week (H = Thursday and
U = Sunday).
30 min, Batch
30 min, Off
Rings Accepts the number of rings the local site

waits for the remote site to answer.
Notification interval (min) Accepts the interval
between delivery attempts, in minutes, for the
specified delivery phone number. If the first message delivery is unsuccessful, the system waits this
amount of time before retrying the designated
number.
Delivery method Accepts one of the following
values, which sets the delivery method to a specific phone number:
B (Batch) Delivers messages to remote sites
according to the time specified in the Delivery schedule field. All messages to remote
sites are delivered in batch mode.
O (Off) Turns off message delivery to the
number.
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Adding a remote site
It is necessary to set up and add a remote

site for each voice messaging system on the
Multisite Messaging network with which
your local site communicates.
The remote site is added to the system after
you complete step 6 of the procedure To
add a remote site on this page.
If you enter information incorrectly, you can

press ESC to cancel the addition of a site at
any time before completing this step. Otherwise, you must delete the remote site from
the system and recreate it.
To add a remote site
1 From the local sites voice messaging system, press CTRL+N to go to the Remote
Network Site screen.
6 Type the system public phone number

or private ID number, based on the
phone network type:
2 Press F8.
3 From the Add menu, select the sites protocol (AMIS or PLUSNET-1), and press
ENTER.
For a private-carrier network, fill in

the Remote site private ID field,
and press ENTER.
For a public-carrier network, fill in

the remote sites Country code,
Area code, and Phone number
fields. Press ENTER after each field
entry.
4 From the Network menu, select the sites

phone network type (Public or Private
Carrier), and press ENTER. A remote site
can use only one network type.
5 In the dialog box that opens, type the
sites spelled name or identification
number, and press ENTER.
NOTE
Subscribers enter the first three characters of this name to select the remote site
when leaving a message or creating
groups over the phone. If your system
uses numeric access, subscribers must
know a remote sites number to send a
message to that site.
See also
connection.................................................. 22
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The Remote Network Site screen

appears with this information entered.
NOTE
The numbers you type in these fields on
the Remote Network Site screen must be
identical to the numbers typed in the
corresponding fields on the Networking
Setup screen.
ADDING A REMOTE SITE

R E M O T E
Public Network Site
N E T W O R K
S I T E

Voice Name: 0:02
Protocol: PLUSNET-1
Restrictions: S
| Last Call:
Status:
| Status:
Msgs Sent:
Received:
| Msgs Sent:
Received:
|
|
Phone #2:
rings every
min,
Phone network type Displays the sites phone

network type, either Public or Private.
Area code Accepts the area code for the local

sites system number that identifies the site.
Remote site name Accepts the remote site

name, which subscribers send messages to by
entering the first three characters of the name.
Phone number Accepts the phone number for

the local sites system number that identifies the
site.
Remote site country code Accepts the country

code for the local sites system number that identifies the site.
Protocol Displays either the PLUSNET-1 or

AMIS protocol.
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To add a remote site, continued
7 Establish a local connection. In the

Voice name field, record the remote
sites voice name. See Making a recording on page 428.
8 In the Restrictions field, enter the
appropriate values, if necessary, and
press ENTER.
9 Change the number in the Maximum
failed calls allowed field, if necessary.
10 In the Phone #1 field (and Phone #2
field, if applicable), type the phone
extension to dial for message delivery,
and press ENTER.
11 In the Delivery schedule fields, type

the hours and days during which the
remote site attempts delivery.
12 Type a value in the Rings field and
press ENTER.
13 Type a value in the Notification interval field and press ENTER.
14 To activate batch delivery, type b
(Batch) in the Delivery method field
and press ENTER.
15 Repeat steps 2 through 14 to set up each
remote site that your local site communicates with.
NOTE
If nothing is entered in the phone fields,
the local site will be unable to dial the
remote site.

R E M O T E
Public Network Site
N E T W O R K
S I T E

Voice Name: 0:02
Protocol: PLUSNET-1
Restrictions: S
| Last Call:
Status:
| Status:
Msgs Sent:
Received:
| Msgs Sent:
Received:
|
|
Phone #2:
rings every
min,
Voice name Contains the recorded name of a

remote site. The site needs a recorded name in
order for callers to select the site from the directory.
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Restrictions Accepts the following values, which

restrict the use of multisite messaging to remote
sites:
O (Outgoing) Local sites can only receive
messages from remote sites.
S (Screen) Local sites can only deliver messages to remote sites.
Outgoing and Incoming call sections Displays
the outgoing and incoming call informationoutgoing and incoming call status, messages sent,
and messages received, as well as the incoming
last call received. These fields are read-only.
Total failed calls Displays the number of times
an error occurs between each successful connection with a remote site. If the setting in this field is
greater than or equal to the setting in the Maximum failed calls allowed field, the system deactivates the remote site. After you fix the problem
that is causing the failure, type 0 (zero) in this
field to reactivate the site.
Maximum failed calls allowed Specifies the
maximum number of times the local site's voice
messaging system attempts to connect with a
remote site when the remote site does not answer
or encounters a communications problem, such as
establishing a common protocol.
Phone #1 and Phone #2 Accepts the phone
number or extension to dial for message delivery.
Use DTMF digits only. Enter at least one phone
number to enable the local site to deliver messages to the remote site.
Delivery schedule Accepts the delivery schedule for messages from the local site's voice messaging system sent to the remote site. When
delivery schedules overlap, messages are delivered to all phone numbers in the overlapping
time. In the Hours field, use the hh:mmam (9:00
am) format. In the Days field, use M T W H F S U
for the days of the week (H = Thursday and U =
Sunday).
messaging system waits for the remote site to
answer.
Notification interval (min) Sets the interval
between delivery attempts, in minutes, for the
specified delivery phone number. If the first message delivery is unsuccessful, the system waits this
amount of time before retrying the designated
number.
sites are delivered in the Batch mode.
number.
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Directory update methods for PLUSNET-1 sites
Sites using the AMIS protocol do not perform directory updates when delivering and
receiving messages from other sites. Sites
using the PLUSNET-1 protocol can be set up
to update directories automatically or manually. The following sections explain the differences for the first directory update and
subsequent updates between sites.
First directory updates

Before PLUSNET-1 site subscribers can
send and receive messages, the sites must
first exchange subscriber and group information through the first directory update.
The first directory update between sites
may require hours to transmit over phone
lines, so it is important to determine which
method, manual or alternate, is best for
each site.
During the first directory update, the directory information that PLUSNET-1 sites
exchange includes:
Subscribers spelled names, voice

names, and extensions.
Message groups spelled names or numbers, voice names, and group types.
Estimate the transmission time before

selecting a method for the directory update.
Transmission time for one subscriber or
group is approximately 90 seconds. Each
local site must individually update directory
information with each remote site in the
Multisite Messaging network.
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Choose one of the following methods for

the first directory update between sites.
Manual method
The manual method updates directory
information by using an analog phone
line. This method is recommended for
the first directory update when transmission involves only local calls.
See Using the manual method for the
first directory update on page 206.
Alternate method
The alternate method updates directory
information without using phone lines.
You can transmit information on disk or
tape, by using a modem, or over the
Internet. If transmission involves longdistance calls or large directories, this
method is recommended.
See Using the alternate method for the
first directory update on page 207.
DIRECTORY UPDATE METHODS FOR PLUSNET-1 SITES
Subsequent directory updates
Disk space
To ensure that subscribers at remote and

local sites accurately send and receive messages, each local PLUSNET-1 site must periodically update the directory information
for each remote PLUSNET-1 site in the Multisite Messaging network. Directory
updates can be made manually or automatically.
Each sites hard disk must accommodate

daily voice messaging system storage
needs, as well as scheduled directory
updates. You need approximately 10 K of
hard disk space per subscriber or message
group. If the system runs out of hard disk
space, directory updates fail until more
space is available.
Automatic directory updates

Automatic updates occur only when
there are new messages to deliver,
according to each remote sites message
delivery schedule. The system uses the
automatic method during each call, and
so no additional steps are needed to
implement it.
Subsequent directory updates occur

automatically according to the message
delivery schedule by using the automatic
directory update method.
Manual directory updates

The manual method allows directory
updates, whether or not there are new
messages to deliver, according to each
remote sites message delivery schedule.
During both automatic and manual
updates, each PLUSNET-1 site checks its
own directory information for additions or
changes since the last update. If there are
any new or deleted subscribers or message
groups, spelled name changes, rerecorded
voice names, or extension changes, sites
transmit them through an analog phone
connection.
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Using the manual method

for the first directory update
The manual method for the first directory
update for PLUSNET-1 sites uses an analog
phone line to transmit the directory information.
To use the manual method
1 Press CTRL+N to go to the Remote Network Site screen of the local sites voice
messaging system.
2 Press F2.
3 From the Command menu, type d to
update the directory.
4 Type y to confirm.
5 Follow the on-screen instructions.
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Using the alternate method

for the first directory update
To use the alternate method for PLUSNET-1
sites, all voice messaging systems on the
Multisite Messaging network must have
compatible import and export hardware.
Perform the following steps to complete the

first directory update.
Alternate method steps

Exporting directory information
Turn off message delivery to remote sites, on page 208.
Export the directory information to a hard disk or a

LAN, on page 209.
Copy the directory information to tape

or disks, on page 211.
Transmit the directory information with

a modem or over the Internet, on
page 210.
Importing directory information

Copy the directory information,
on page 212 and on page 213.
Transmit the directory information with

a modem to a LAN or hard disk drive,
on page 210.
Import the directory information, on page 213.
Export each remote sites directory information and

import it at your local site by using the same export/
import procedure.
Resume message delivery to remote sites,

on page 214.
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Exporting directory information
Before you export the directory information

for PLUSNET-1 sites, turn off message delivery to all remote sites. The voice messaging
system continues to take calls while exporting information.
NOTE
Until you have completed exporting the
information, turn off message delivery at
your site and all remote sites that are
exchanging directory information.
To turn off message delivery to remote sites
1 Press CTRL+N to display the Remote

Network Site screen.
2 In the Delivery method field (the last
unlabeled field on the Phone #1 line),
type o (Off) and press ENTER to turn
off message delivery.
type o (Off) and press ENTER to turn
off message delivery.

R E M O T E
Public Network Site
N E T W O R K
S I T E

Voice Name: 0:02
Protocol: PLUSNET-1
Restrictions: S
| Last Call:
Status:
| Status:
Msgs Sent:
Received:
| Msgs Sent:
Received:
|
|
---------------------------- Message delivery -------------------------------Phone #1: 444-4444 2:00am- 4:00am MTWHFSU 4 rings every 30 min, Off
Phone #2:
rings every
min,

sites are delivered in batch mode.
number.
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EXPORTING DIRECTORY INFORMATION
Export the directory information to a

hard disk or a LAN
You can export the directory information to
the hard disk or network after you turn off
message delivery. Then you can transmit
the information to the remote sites over the
Internet, over a LAN, or on disk or tape.
NOTE
If there is inadequate space on the voice
messaging system hard disk to complete
the export, the system stops exporting and
deletes any exported data transmitted during the export.
To export the directory information to a hard

disk or LAN
1 Press CTRL+N to go to the Remote Network Site screen.

2 Press F2.
3 From the Command menu, type e to
export the information.
4 Use the default destination or type a
new one, and press ENTER. The default
naming convention is:
<drive letter>:\Vmsite\<subdirectory
name>
Vmsite is the export directory name
and cannot be changed.
<subdirectory name> is the date
and time of the export process in
ymmddhhm.mss format. For this
format:
y is the last digit of the year
mm is the month
dd is the day
hh is the hour
mm is the minute
ss is the second
For example, the directory name

Vmsite\20708091.011 indicates an
export process at 9:10:11 on July 8, 2002.
5 Type y to confirm and begin the
export.
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After exporting the directory

information
Transmit the directory information using

a LAN, a modem, or the Internet
If you are transmitting information using a

LAN, a modem, or the Internet, see Transmit the directory information using a LAN, a
modem, or the Internet on this page.
If a remote site is connected to the same

LAN as the local site, you can use the LAN
for importing and exporting. If the sites can
use communications software for transmitting data between sites through a modem or
the Internet, then you can use either the
modem or the Internet for importing and
exporting.
If you are transporting the information on

tape or disks, see Copy the directory information to tape or disks on page 211.
After the information is exported to a LAN

or hard disk, you can transmit it by using a
LAN, a modem, or the Internet. After the
information is delivered to the other site for
importing, you can then follow the directions on page 213 for importing from a hard
disk to the local sites voice messaging system database.
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Copy the directory information to tape

or disks
After the directory information has been
exported to the hard disk or a LAN, export
the information onto digital audiotape, QIC
tape, or disks.
To export the directory information to tape
1 Go to the OS/2 desktop.

2 Choose the Voice Mail Utilities folder.
3 Choose the Multisite Messaging folder.
4 Choose the Export to Tape icon.
5 Type the letter of the drive where the
directory update is located, and press
ENTER. Follow the on-screen instructions.
6 Type the directorys number from the
on-screen list, and press ENTER.
To export directory information to disks
1 At the command prompt, go to the

Vmail directory.
2 Use the TREE_CPY command to copy
the data from the hard disk or LAN to
disks. Copy the information to disks by
using the same export directory name.
For example, type:
tree_cpy
d:\vmsite\20708091.011\*.*
a:\vmsite\20708091.011
3 Insert disks in the appropriate disk drive

as prompted. Label each disk with the
directory name and the disk number
(for example, 1 of 4) to assist remote
sites in importing the information.
4 After the information is exported to the
disks, distribute the disks to the remote
site.
7 Type y and press ENTER to confirm

the directory name. Follow the onscreen instructions. The tape backup
software exports the information to
tape.
8 Press any key to continue after the
export process is complete.
9 After the information is exported to
tape, send the tape to the remote site.
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Importing directory information
For PLUSNET-1 sites, after you have completed exporting the directory information,
each participating remote site imports the
information to the voice messaging systems
hard disk. The directory information then
needs to be imported from the hard disk to
the voice messaging systems database.
To copy directory information from a tape
7 Press any key to continue.
8 Type the number for the source site and

press ENTER.

4 Choose the Import from Tape icon. Follow the on-screen instructions.
5 Type the destination drive letter and
press ENTER.
6 Type y and press ENTER. Press any key
to continue.
The tape backup software imports the
information from tape to a temporary
location on the hard disk. Follow the onscreen instructions.
9 Type y and press ENTER to confirm

the site.
10 Type the number for the source directory and press ENTER.
11 Select the default import file name
and press ENTER, or type the file name
you want the system to build and press
ENTER. Wait as the system builds the
file.
12 Press any key to return to the OS/2
desktop.
13 Import the directory information, as
described in Import the directory information on page 213.
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IMPORTING DIRECTORY INFORMATION
To copy directory information from disks

or a LAN
1 Use the XCOPY command to import the

data from disks (start with Disk 1) or
from the LAN to the voice messaging
systems hard disk. Copy the information
to a directory with the same name as the
original directory. Do this for all disks
received. For example, type:
xcopy
a:\vmsite\20708901.011\*.*
d:\vmite\270708901.011
NOTE
Use the XCOPY command to import
directory information. The TREE_CPY
command cannot be used to import
information.
5 Choose the Import from Disk icon.
6 Type the sites number from the onscreen list and press ENTER. Follow the
on-screen instructions.
Import the directory information

copied onto the voice messaging systems
hard disk, import the directory information
into the voice messaging system database.
To import directory information to the local sites
system database
1 Press CTRL+N to go to the Remote Network Site screen.

2 Press F2.
3 From the Command menu, type i to
import the information.
Use the default import file name and

press ENTER.
Type the file name you created when

copying the information from a tape,
a LAN, or floppy disks, and then
press ENTER.
5 Type y to confirm the file name. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the import process.
7 Accept the default import file name by

pressing ENTER, or type the file name
you want the system to build and press
ENTER.
8 Press any key to build the import file.
9 Repeat steps 1 through 8 for each
remote site.
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IMPORTING DIRECTORY INFORMATION
Resume message delivery to remote

sites
imported and exported among all sites, turn
on the message delivery to remote sites for
each site in the Multisite Messaging network.
To turn on message delivery to remote sites
1 After the import process is complete,

press CTRL+N to go to the Remote Network Site screen.
type b (Batch) to turn on batch delivery, and press ENTER.
3 Repeat this procedure for all participating sites on the Multisite Messaging network.
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Testing the Multisite Messaging network
For both AMIS and PLUSNET-1 sites, after

the Multisite Messaging network is set up,
the system manager at each site must test
the network. System managers may want to
change message delivery schedules temporarily for testing message delivery and
replies. For example, set up the delivery
schedule to deliver messages during nonbusiness hours.
Sending a message automatically updates
directories at each site with any information
that has been added or changed since the
first directory update.
To test the network
1 Send a message to the system manager

at each remote site on the network and
have each system manager reply to the
messages received from the other sites.
2 Check for a reply message from each
remote site. If you receive a reply, your
site is working properly. If you do not
receive a reply, you may need to modify
the setup.
3 If message delivery schedules were
changed for this test, confirm that all
system managers returned their sites to
the original schedules. Otherwise, your
test is complete.
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Restricting special delivery options
Subscribers can mark messages for special

delivery after recording a message, a reply,
or an introduction to a redirected message.
Special delivery options between networked
sites function differently than delivery
options between subscribers at the same
site.
Multisite Messaging, or ActiveNet, also lets
subscribers mark messages with different
special delivery options, depending on the
protocol used between sites. Refer to the
table on page 217 for details.
You can restrict subscribers use of special
delivery options through access codes for
multisite messaging. The access codes let
you determine whether a subscriber can
mark a message as urgent or request a
return receipt on a message sent to a subscriber at a remote site. Restricting the use
of special delivery options can be useful in
preventing long-distance charges.
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For example, if a subscriber marks a message to a remote site as urgent, the system
transmits the message as well as all other
normal messages waiting to be sent to that
site. Because the system does not follow the
sites delivery schedule, there may be an
increase in long-distance charges. You can
prevent these higher charges by restricting
subscribers ability to mark messages to
remote sites as urgent.
RESTRICTING SPECIAL DELIVERY OPTIONS
Special delivery options between sites

Special delivery
option
PLUSNET-1
AMIS
Urgent
Delivered after the scheduled

batch delivery.
Delivered after the scheduled

batch delivery.
Marked with urgent priority.
Marked with normal priority.
Delivered at the next scheduled

time after the delivery time
specified by the sending
subscriber.

time after the delivery time
specified by the sending
subscriber.
Marked as prerecorded.
Marked with no indication that

the message was prerecorded.
Private
Recipient cannot redirect the

message.
Not available.
Return receipt

time.

time.
For subscribers without the

Remote Open Receipt access
code, receipts indicate the date
and time the message transmits.
Receipts indicate the date and

time the message transmits.
Future
For subscribers with the Remote

Open Receipt access code,
receipts indicate the date and
time the receiving subscriber or
last open group member opened
the message.
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Message groups and Multisite Messaging
In addition to providing support for private

groups and open groups, Multisite Messaging provides a group option called the local
access group. Local access groups are
owned and created like other message
groups, but group membership is unique, as
described in the following table.
Local and remote subscribers ability to use message groups

Message group type
Who can be a group member
Who can send messages to a

group
Local access
Local and remote subscribers
Local subscribers only
Open
Local and remote subscribers
Private group not using Local and remote subscribers

dispatch distribution
Local subscriber (group

owner) only
Private group using

dispatch distribution at
local sites
Local subscriber (group

owner) only
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Multisite Messaging training
You may want to discuss the following

Multisite Messaging functions during
subscriber training:
An overview of Multisite Messaging, how

it functions, and how it is used at your
site.
Your sites message delivery schedule.
Any special restrictions at your site,

especially subscriber restrictions.
Remote site names and numbers on

your network.
How to send messages to remote site

subscribers. For example, if your system
uses numeric access, instead of lettered
access, subscribers must know the
remote sites number to send a message
to a subscriber at that site.
What features and functions are available to sites using the PLUSNET-1 protocol compared to sites using the AMIS
protocol.
Special delivery option differences when

communicating with remote sites.
How subscribers at local and remote

sites use message groups.
What local access groups are and how to

create them by phone.
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C H A P T E R 1 1
Hospitality
Hospitality overview.......................................... 222
Viewing and changing guest names

and language choices ...................................... 250
Resetting a hotel guest message box............. 224

Accessing guest messages after checkout ..... 225
Setting up the hotel guest directory ............... 226
Using overlapping room extension
numbers ............................................................. 228
Managing messages for an individual

guest.................................................................. 252
Adding and deleting hotel guest rooms and
messages........................................................... 254
Changing a hotel guests call transfer and
notification settings .......................................... 256
Setting up wake-up calls .................................. 231

Setting up check-in messages ......................... 235
Setting up the Multilingual Guest
Conversation package...................................... 236
Managing wake-up calls for an individual

guest.................................................................. 262
Converting a hotel guest to a subscriber ....... 264
Changing guest options for a hotel guest ..... 266
Allowing hotel guests to use passwords......... 238

Hotel information service................................. 268
Retrieving hotel guest messages..................... 241
Help option for an information service........... 270
Setting up informational messages................. 242
Direct call transfers........................................... 271
Using hotel guest IDs ....................................... 243
Restoring a mailbox .......................................... 246
Setting up hotel guest personal options ........ 247
Incorporate advertisers into an

information service ........................................... 272
Setting up remote recording for
advertisers ......................................................... 273
Hotel Guests screen overview.......................... 249

Keep your information service current ........... 274
CHAPTER 11: HOSPITALITY
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Hospitality overview
When you set up and manage the Hospitality package, you will use two screens, Hospitality Setup and Hotel Guests. These screens
let you provide customized voice messaging
services for hotel guests, such as wake-up
calls, the hotel guest directory, and guest
information services.
Options available to all guests are shown on
the Hospitality Setup screen. The changes
you make on this screen affect only new
guests. You can change the settings for an
individual guest by using the Hotel Guests
screen for that guests room and selecting
the options you want.
If you have a property management system
(PMS) integration, your installer will set up
the integration before you set up and customize the Hospitality package. For more
information, see Setting up the PMS Integration package in Chapter 17 of the Installation Guide.
Setup steps for the Hospitality package

1 Decide whether you will activate the
hotel guest directory.
See Setting up the hotel guest directory
on page 226.
2 Decide whether you will use
overlapping room extension numbers.
See Using overlapping room extension
numbers on page 228.
3 Decide whether you will allow guests
to set wake-up calls.
See Setting up wake-up calls on
page 231.
4 Decide whether your guests will use
the multilingual guest conversation.
See Setting up the Multilingual Guest
Conversation package on page 236.
5 Set up the options for hotel guests.
See Setting up hotel guest personal
options on page 247.
6 Set up your hotel information service
by using transaction boxes.
See Hotel information service on
page 268.
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HOSPITALITY OVERVIEW
Hospitality Setup screen

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HOSPITALITY SETUP
Reset message box ID: 636
Post check-out ID: 654
ID for guest directory: 655
Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Tall hotel ID entry delay: 2 secs
Wake-up call? Yes
4 rings every 10 min, 2 retries
Wake-up greeting ID: 656
0:00
Unanswered wake-up notify ID: $NOANS
Check-in msg enabled? Yes
Check-in msg ID: 666
0:03
-----------------------------Guest setup-------------------------------------Allow language choice? Yes
Callers hear guest language? Yes
Automatic password assignment? No
Password length: 4
Give guest option to set spelled name for directory? No
After message retrieval GOTO ID -->
Default guest ID: 8X
First time enrollment? Yes
Allow personal greetings? Yes
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Allow edits in msg box? Yes
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Name: Perez, Ricardo
Voice name: 0:02 Language: US
Personal ID: 8384
SC
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
--Message notification ------------------------------------------------------Lamp #: X
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
after 0 min, 12:00am 11:50pm MTWHFSU
4 rings 30 min, Off
Wake-up call: 6:00am
Daily? Yes
--Guest options-------------------------------------------------------------First time enrollment? Yes

Include in guest directory? Yes
Allow personal greeting? Yes
Allow password? No
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Resetting a hotel guest message box
When a guest is checked out on the property management system (PMS), the PMS
integration automatically resets the rooms
mailbox on the voice messaging system so
that voice messaging is immediately available for the next guest in that room.
If the PMS is not able to provide checkout
information to the voice messaging system,
hotel staff use the Reset message box ID
number specified on the Hospitality Setup
screen to manually check out a guest and
reset the rooms mailbox. In this case, it may
be easier for housekeeping staff to reset a
rooms mailbox after they prepare the room
for the next guest.
When a rooms mailbox is reset, the system

clears any special options set by hotel staff
or by the previous guest, such as a password, personal greeting, or language choice.
To manually reset a rooms mailbox and check a
guest out from the voice messaging system
1 Call the voice messaging system.

2 Dial the Reset message box ID number.
3 Dial the room extension of the guest
who is checking out.
4 Press 1 to confirm the checkout.

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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Reset message box ID Records the code used

by hotel staff to manually check out a hotel guest
and reset the guest voice mailbox for the next
guest. The default code is 636.
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Accessing guest messages after checkout
After a guest has checked out, any unheard

messages are transferred to a guest message
storage box, where they are held for a set
period of time. Hotel staff use the Post
check-out ID number specified on the
Hospitality Setup screen to let a guest
access these messages. When a guest
checks out, hotel staff can also check the
PMS to make sure the guest has received all
messages.
To transfer a guest to their message storage box

after checkout
1 Initiate a call transfer.

3 Dial the Post check-out ID number,
and then dial the room extension of the
guest who has checked out.
4 Confirm the extension and checkout
day.
5 Listen for the beep, and complete the
call transfer.

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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Post check-out ID Records the code used to

access a guest message storage box, where any
unheard messages can be reviewed by the guest
after checkout. The default code is 654.
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Setting up the hotel guest directory
The hotel guest directory lets callers be

transferred to a guests extension without
the help of an operator. Guest room numbers are never given out by the voice messaging system.
Guests can choose whether they are
included in the guest directory. To be
included in the hotel guest directory, guests
access the voice messaging system, select
the guest directory option, and follow the
system instruction prompts to record their
name.
To enable use of the hotel guest directory
1 Go to the ID for guest directory field

on the Hospitality Setup screen.
2 If your site wants to use the hotel guest
directory, confirm that a system ID is
entered in this field. If your site will not
use the guest directory, remove the
default system ID and leave this field
blank.
3 If the hotel guest directory is used, set up
the opening greeting to provide caller
access using the guest directory system
ID by including the guest directory ID in
a one-key dialing menu or in a
GotoID--> field.
See also
Routing callers from a transaction box using
one-key dialing......................................... 361
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Auto transfers
The hotel guest directory conversation asks
external callers to identify the guest they are
trying to reach by entering the first few
letters of the guests last name. You can
choose to allow direct transfers without
confirmation if the system finds only one
matching guest name in the directoryfor
example, if there is currently only one guest
with the last name Smithor you can
require that external callers confirm all
selections of guest names.
To make auto transfer available to external
callers
1 Go to the Auto xfer? field on the Hospitality Setup screen.

2 Type y to automatically transfer the
caller to the guests extension when
there is only one guest name that
matches the name entered by an external caller.
SETTING UP THE HOTEL GUEST DIRECTORY
Spelled guest names

To include a guest in the guest directory, the
voice messaging system requires the spelling of the guests last name. If your hotel has
an integrated PMS system, the PMS can
automatically send guest names to the
voice messaging system. If your PMS supports spelled guest names, you can choose
whether guests can change the spelling of
their name in the guest directory.
If the PMS does not automatically provide

this information, guests can spell their
name during the voice messaging system
enrollment process, or hotel staff can enter
guest names at the console.
To let guests change the spelling of their names
in the guest directory
1 Go to the Give guest option to set

spelled name for directory? field on the
Hospitality Setup screen.
2 Type y to let guests change the spelling of their name in the directory.

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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
ID for guest directory Specifies the ID for the

hotel guest directory. To enable use of the hotel
guest directory, type a system ID in this field. The
default ID is 655. To disable the guest directory,
delete the ID and leave the field blank.
Auto xfer? When enabled, transfers calls automatically when there is only one match to a name
query made by a caller. Type y to automatically
transfer a caller to the guests extension, or type
n to require name confirmation before the call is
transferred. This field is used only when the ID for
guest directory field has an ID code entered.
Give guest option to set spelled name for
directory? Accepts y to allow hotel guests to
change the spelling of their names in the hotel
guest directory. Otherwise, type n.
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Using overlapping room extension numbers
If your phone system uses overlapping

room extension numbers of different
lengths (for example, 110 and 1102), the
voice messaging system needs to be able to
differentiate between them to transfer a call
or send a message lamp on or off code. A
pause is used to provide this differentiation.
This pause prevents the voice messaging
system from transferring the call or sending
the lamp code before the complete extension number is received.
For example, if your hotel has extension
numbers 110 and 1102, and the Tall hotel
fields are not set properly, whenever a call is
transferred or a lamp code is sent to extension 1102, the voice messaging system will
send the call or lamp code to extension 110
as soon as the 0 is received. Extension
1102 never receives a call or has its message
lamp lit.
The field name Tall hotel was originally
used to describe a facility that had overlapping extension numbers due to the presence of guest rooms on floors 11 and higher.
However, the Tall hotel fields are used
whenever overlapping extension numbers
exist, regardless of the number of guest
room floors in the facility.
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To configure the voice messaging system for

overlapping room extension numbers
1 Go to the Hospitality Setup screen.

2 In the Tall hotel? field, type y.
3 Confirm that the Tall hotel ID entry
delay field has a digit delay appropriate
to your phone system.
4 Go to Switch Setup screen page 1.
5 In the Integration options field, type
TIA,,, .
7 Locate the x in the Message lamp on
and Message lamp off fields. This x
represents the room extension. Type ,,
immediately after the x in each of
these two fields (making the field values
x,, in both of these fields).
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Tall hotel? Indicates whether your site uses a

room extension numbering scheme that duplicates the first digits (for example, extensions 110
and 1102). Type y to enable this setting. The
default setting is No.
Tall hotel ID entry delay Specifies the number

of seconds that the voice messaging system waits
for additional digits before transferring a call. The
default is 2. This field is used only if the Tall
hotel? field is set to Yes.
Switch Setup screen page 1

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1. Switch: SAMPLE
Sample paramters
SAMPLE
2. Integration options: TIA,,,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
4. Transfer initiate: &,X
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
TT prompt/msg/record: 1 / 1 / 4
Answer on ring low? Yes
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay:
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
Integration options Accepts special integration options (such as TIA,,,) that control how the
voice messaging system works with the phone system.
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10. Message lamp on: X,,

Retries: 0
off: X,,
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
Daily lamp reset: 12:01am
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200
12. Dialout DTMF duration: 10
DTMF interdigit delay: 8
13. Dialtone delay: 100
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------14.
15.
16.
17.
Max lines holding total: 16

Number tries between TT checks: 4
LCD refresh interval: 0
Barge-in code: 77,X
Message lamp on Turns on message waiting

indication.
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Max lines holding for ext: 16

Extra hold time between tries: 50
Live record beep interval: 0
Message lamp off

indication.
Turns off message waiting
Setting up wake-up calls
The voice messaging system lets guests set

up and administer their own wake-up calls.
A variety of reports provide information to
monitor the wake-up call service. See
Monitoring wake-up calls on page 503 for
more information on monitoring wake-up
calls using reports.
System capacity
The system can make approximately three
wake-up calls per minute per dial-capable
port on your voice messaging system.
Wake-up calls are sent out only on ports set
as Answer/Dial out, Dial out only,
Answer/Message, and Message only.
If your guests experience wake-up call
delays, review your port configuration to
determine whether you have an adequate
number of ports configured to meet guest
needs. See Setting up ports on page 38 for
information on port configuration.
To make the wake-up call feature available to

guests

2 In the Wake-up call? field, type y to
let guests set up their own wake-up
calls.
3 In the Rings field, enter the number of
times a guest phone will ring for wakeup calls. To prevent unanswered wakeup calls from being forwarded to a
guests voice mailbox, the number of
rings should be less than the number of
rings that the phone system waits before
forwarding calls to the voice messaging
system.
4 In the Every __ min field, enter the
number of minutes for the system to
wait to make a subsequent wake-up call
if the initial wake-up call is unanswered.
When this time interval is too long,
guests may not have enough time to
meet their desired schedule. When this
interval is too short, wake-up calls may
be missed if the guest is in another room
of their suite or is otherwise unable to
take the calls.
5 In the Retries field, enter the maximum number of wake-up call retry
attempts when wake-up calls are not
answered.
See also
Managing wake-up calls for an individual
guest .......................................................... 262
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Wake-up call? Allows guests to set their own

wake-up calls. Type y to enable this setting, or
n to disable it.
Every __ min Specifies the number of minutes

the system waits before retrying an unanswered
wake-up call. The default is 10 minutes.
Rings Sets the number of times a guest phone

rings for wake-up calls. The default is 4 rings.
Retries Sets the maximum number of unanswered wake-up call retry attempts. The default is
2 retry attempts.
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Changing the wake-up greeting
Handling unanswered wake-up calls
The system comes with a standard wake-up

greeting that is played in the default system
language. The system also lets you customize the wake-up greeting that guests hear.
The voice messaging system provides an

added security optionurgent notification
of designated hotel staff when repeated
wake-up call attempts are unanswered by a
guest. Unanswered wake-up calls can alert
hotel staff to a guests possible need for
assistance.
You can change the wake-up greeting from

the console by using the Hospitality Setup
screen, or you can record the wake-up
greeting by calling the voice messaging system and responding to system prompts.
The minimum length for a custom wake-up
greeting is 2 seconds.
To maximize system performance, if you
record a custom wake-up call greeting,
keep it short. The length of the wake-up call
greeting affects the number of wake-up
calls that the system can make per hour.
To change the wake-up greeting by phone

2 Enter the number specified in the
Wake-up greeting ID field.
3 Record the new greeting.
To change the wake-up greeting from the

2 Go to the unnamed Wake-up greeting
recording time field.
3 Record a greeting by following the procedure in Making a recording on
page 428.
To provide staff notifications of unanswered

wake-up call attempts
1 Obtain a pager and dedicate it to unanswered wake-up call notification.

2 Set up a subscriber message box, and
dedicate it solely to wake-up call notification. Set the message box to notify the
dedicated pager number. See Setting
up message notification on page 298
for more information about notification
options.
3 Go to the Hospitality Setup screen. In
the Unanswered wake-up notify ID
field, enter the message box ID that you
created in step 2. The system automatically designates any unanswered wakeup call messages sent to this box as
urgent.
4 Assign the dedicated pager to a hotel
staff member on each shift. Instruct
these staff members to promptly investigate any unanswered wake-up call
notification messages.
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Wake-up greeting ID Sets the system ID of the

wake-up call greeting so that hotel staff can
change the wake-up greeting over the phone.The
default is 656.
Wake-up greeting recording time Displays the
length, in seconds, of the wake-up call greeting. If
this field contains 0:00, a custom wake-up greeting
has not been recorded, and the system's default
greeting is played.
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Unanswered wake-up notify ID Specifies the

subscriber ID to be notified when a final wake-up
call retry is unanswered.
Setting up check-in messages
A check-in message is a greeting that hotel

guests hear the first time they access the
system. This message is used to greet guests
and provide useful information about the
hotel. Guests hear the check-in message
only once.
You can set up and record a check-in message for newly-enrolled guests from the
console or from the phone.
NOTE
The First-time enrollment? field on the
Hospitality Setup screen must be set to
Yes in order to enable check-in messages.
If this is turned off, the guest will never hear
the message.
To set up the check-in message

2 Confirm that the First-time enrollment? field is set to Yes.
3 In the Check-in msg enabled? field,
type y.
4 To change the default system greeting,
type the new check-in message ID in the
Check-in msg ID field.
5 In the unnamed Check-in msg greeting field, record a new greeting. For
details on recording a greeting, see
Making a recording on page 428.

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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
First time enrollment? Accepts y or n to let

guests hear the guest enrollment conversation the
first time they sign in to the voice messaging system.
Check-in msg enabled? Accepts y or n to
turn the check-in message option on or off.
Check-in msg greeting Displays the recording

length for the check-in message greeting. If the
field contains 0:00, no greeting has been recorded
and the system uses the default greeting. The
default greeting plays in the default system language.
Check-in msg ID Accepts the check-in message ID.
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Setting up the Multilingual Guest

Conversation package
Hotel guests, and their external callers, are
able to hear the system conversation in the
guests language choice while in the guests
mailbox, once any optional hospitality languages have been installed on the voice
messaging system and the two multilingual
guest conversation fields on the Hospitality
Setup screen have been set to Yes.
The first time a guest dials the voice messaging system, the system conversation asks
them to choose a language. It offers the
default system language first, then presents
the other language choices in the order they
were installed. A guests language choice
remains in effect until the guest either
changes it or checks out. Installation of an
additional language does not alter guest
language choices currently in effect.
To set up the Multilingual Guest Conversation

package
1 Confirm that there is 1.5 MB of free disk

space (10 minutes of recording time) for
each language you are installing. Go to
the Recording time field on the Banner
screen to check the total amount of system recording time available.
2 Install additional languages in the order
that you want the choices offered to
hotel guests. For more information on
adding languages to your system, see
Adding a language in Chapter 8 of the
Installation Guide.
3 Sign in to the voice messaging system as
a system manager.
4 Go to the Voice Prompt Editor screen.
Press F7 to confirm that each language
you installed is listed.
6 Type y in the Allow language choice?
field to let guests choose one of the
installed languages.
7 Type y in the Callers hear guest language? field to enable this feature for
external callers.
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Allow language choice? Accepts y or n to

let guests choose the language they hear when
using the voice messaging system. This field is
available only if you have installed the Multilingual
Guest Conversation package.
Callers hear guest language? Accepts y or

n to allow external callers to hear the system
prompts in the language the guest has chosen
while in the guests mailbox. Available only if
Allow language choice? is set to Yes.
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Allowing hotel guests to use passwords
The password option lets a guest set a password so that only the guest can access their
mailbox. This password does not appear on
the console and is not accessible to hotel
staff.
You can set up the system so that guests
have direct access to their messages from
their rooms without entering an ID or a
password. See Setting up auto-login for
hotel guests on page 240 to enable this feature.
Initial setup of hotel guest passwords is
done on the Hospitality Setup screen,
including setup for PMS systems that offer
automatic password assignment.
Password management for individual
guests is done on the Hotel Guests screen. If
a hotel guest forgets his or her password,
hotel staff can delete the password so that
the guest can create a new one. See Changing guest options for a hotel guest on
page 266 for information on resetting a
hotel guests password.
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To enable hotel guests to use passwords

2 If your PMS integration offers password
assignment, and you want the system to
automatically assign passwords to hotel
guests, type y in the Automatic password assignment? field.
3 If Automatic password assignment? is
set to Yes, enter the number of digits
for guest passwords in the Password
length field.
4 In the Allow passwords? field, type y
to enable guests to use passwords to
retrieve their messages.
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Automatic password assignment? Yes
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? Yes
Automatic password assignment? Accepts y

to enable the system to automatically assign passwords to hotel guests. This field applies only to
PMS integrations that offer password assignment.
Password length Determines the length of the

guest password. If the Automatic password
assignment? field is set to Yes, type the number of digits for the guest password. The default is
4 digits.
Allow passwords? Accepts y to let hotel
guests use passwords to retrieve voice messages.
Otherwise, type n.
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Setting up auto-login for hotel guests
To enable auto-login
When hotel guests call the voice messaging

service from their rooms, they do not need
to enter a personal ID or password when
auto-login is enabled. Auto-login is available only to a subscriber designated as a
hotel guest. Auto-login is not available to
other subscribers, subscriber guests, or
transaction boxes. This option is disabled
by default.

2 In the Integration options field,
type hlog=1.
To disable auto-login

hlog=0 or delete the hlog=1 text.
3 If you delete the hlog=1 text, restart
the voice messaging system to put the
change into effect.

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Default paramters
DEFAULTS
2. Integration options: hlog=0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay:
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
Integration options Accepts special integration

options that control how the voice messaging system works with the phone system, such as
hlog=0 to disable auto-login or hlog=1 to
enable auto-login.
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Retrieving hotel guest messages
Using the message waiting indicators on

their room phones, guests can determine
whether they have messages. Guests can
then retrieve messages by calling the voice
messaging system, or, if your phone system
supports easy message access, guests can
press a button on their room phone. Refer
to your phone system documentation to
determine whether easy message access is
available and how to set it up.
Transferring guests and callers to

mailboxes
Guests can also retrieve their messages
while away from their room by calling the
hotel operator and being transferred to
their mailbox.
Perform the following procedures to transfer a caller or guest directly to a mailbox.
To transfer a checked-in guest directly to their
mailbox

2 Enter the voice messaging system number, the default guest ID (usually 8), and
then the guest room extension.
3 Complete the call transfer.
To transfer a caller directly to a guests mailbox

2 Enter the voice messaging system number, the room extension, and then the
transfer override code.
3 Complete the call transfer.
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Setting up informational messages
On the Hospitality Setup screen, you can set

up the system so that after guests check
their messages, they are routed to a transaction box. This transaction box can offer
informational messages that go to all
enrolled hotel guests. For example, you can
use this type of message to communicate
information about hotel events or local
businesses and services. These messages
can be scheduled for day delivery, night
delivery, or both.
Guests hear these messages after they have
finished checking messages in the voice
mailbox. At any point, guests can choose
not to hear the informational messages by
hanging up.
To set up informational messages for hotel

guests
1 Create a transaction box. See Adding

and removing transaction boxes on
page 348 for more information. For this
transaction box:
Use a unique system ID for the box.
In the Greeting section, set the

appropriate Day, Night, and Alt
fields if you want the greeting to play
at a particular time.
In the Action section, set both the

Day and Night fields to Hang up.

3 In the After message retrieval
Goto ID--> field, type the system ID of
the transaction box you created in step 1.

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HOSPITALITY SETUP
Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
After message retrieval GOTO ID --> 367
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
After message retrieval Goto ID--> Accepts

the system ID of the transaction box to which hotel
guests are routed after they have retrieved their
messages.
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Using hotel guest IDs

creates a mailbox and a personal ID for
each guest room extension. The personal
ID is assigned to the room extension, rather
than to an individual guest. The system
uses the personal ID to identify the guests
mailbox.
Using room numbers as the guest room
extension numbers can simplify use of the
guest messaging service for both hotel staff
and guests. Each Hotel Guests screen,
which displays a guest room extension and
its mailbox, can then correspond to a guest
room number.
How the system creates a guest

personal ID
The following example illustrates how the
system creates the personal ID 8638:
8 = Default guest ID
The default guest ID is set in the
Default guest ID field on the Hospitality Setup screen. If you change the
default guest ID, confirm that the new
ID does not conflict with any others on
the system.
638 = Guest room extension
Guest room extensions are entered into
the system during installation.
8638 = Personal ID
The guest personal ID consists of the
default guest ID followed by the guest
room extension. The guest personal ID
is displayed on the Hotel Guests screen.
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USING HOTEL GUEST IDS
Guest message storage after checkout

When a guest room mailbox is reset at
checkout, the voice messaging system automatically creates a message storage box for
any saved or unheard messages. The guests
saved and unheard messages are stored for
the number of days specified in the Archive
days field on the Hospitality Setup screen.
The extension ID and personal ID for the
guest message storage box are the same as
the original room extension ID and personal ID, except that they are preceded by
an asterisk (*) and end with the day the
mailbox was reset, which is typically the
checkout day. The following table shows
how the system creates a guest message
storage box.
Message
Room
extension storage box
ID
Personal
ID
712
*871203
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*71203 (the
guest checked
out on the third
day of the
month)
To set the length of time guest messages are

archived

2 In the Archive days field, type the
number of days that the voice messaging
system stores messages for checked-out
guests.
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
Default guest ID Sets the convention used to

create each hotel guest rooms unique personal
ID. The default setting is 8x, where 8 is the ID
and x represents the guests extension.
Archive days Determines the length of time, in

days, that the voice messaging system stores messages for checked-out guests. The default is 3 days.
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Restoring a mailbox
Hotel staff can undo a checkout if a guest

wants to check back into the same room or
if the guest was accidentally checked out. If
a staff person restores the room on the same
day that the checkout was recorded on the
PMS, the PMS integration can restore
unheard messages and guest options.
If you do not have a PMS integration that
can restore messages and guest options on
the voice messaging system, perform the
following procedure.
To manually restore a guests mailbox and
personal settings
1 Delete the new guest room from the

system.
2 Change the personal ID and room extension ID in the guests message storage
box to the rooms original IDs.
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Mailbox merge and room change

If a guest decides to change rooms, some
property management systems can automatically transfer a guests messages to the
new rooms mailbox. If a guest moves into a
room already occupied by another guest,
some property management systems can
merge the two mailboxes.
Setting up hotel guest personal options
The Hospitality Setup screen provides

default settings that also appear on the
Hotel Guests screen. These settings can be
customized for individual guests as needed.
You can choose whether guests hear the
hotel guest enrollment conversation the
first time they access the voice messaging
system. You can also give guests the option
of recording a personal greeting for their
room extension. If no personal greeting is
recorded, the system plays a standard greeting. If a guest records his or her name, it will
be included in the greeting. External callers
can also be allowed to make changes to
messages they have recorded for guests.
To set up default hotel guest personal options

2 In the First time enrollment? field,
type y to let guests hear the guest
enrollment conversation the first time
they sign in to the voice messaging system.
3 In the Allow personal greetings? field,
type y to let guests record and change
their own personal voice messaging
greeting.
4 In the Allow edits in msg box? field,
type y to let callers make changes to
messages that they have just recorded.
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Auto xfer? No
Tall hotel? Yes
Wake-up call? Yes
0:00
0:03
Password length: 4
Archive days: 3
Allow passwords? No
First time enrollment? Allows guests to hear

the guest enrollment conversation the first time
they sign in to the voice messaging system.
Allow personal greetings? Accepts y or n
to let guests record and change their own personal voice messaging greetings.
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Allow edits in msg box? Accepts y or n to

let callers change a message they have just
recorded.
Hotel Guests screen overview
Hotel Guests screens contain information

for each room and guest. The required values on this screen are automatically filled in
by the voice messaging system. Most of the
starting values for fields on these screens
come from the PMS integration, or from
values entered on the Hospitality Setup
screen or the Default Subscriber screen.
Calculated field values, such as New
msgs, are automatically filled in and kept
up-to-date by the system.
The Hotel Guests screen also contains any

customized settings or personal options
that guests set for themselves or that hotel
staff set for individual guests. When a guest
checks out, any customized settings or personal options are automatically deleted by
the system. The Hotel Guests screen is
returned to the default values and is immediately ready for the next guest in that
room.
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes
--Guest options--------------------------------------------------------------First time enrollment? Yes

Allow password? No
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Viewing and changing guest names

and language choices
The optional PMS Integration package
automatically sets up hotel guest room
numbers, names, and mailboxes for each
guest. Without a PMS Integration package,
guest room numbers and names must be
manually added to the system. If hotel staff
enter guest names manually, enter them
using the format last name, first name to
enable sorting of guests by last name on
reports and at the console.
Guests can record their names in the voice
messaging system during enrollment. Callers hear this recording when they leave
messages for the guest. If a guest decides to
be included in the guest directory, callers
hear this recorded name when they search
for the guest in the hotel guest directory.
To manage a guest voice recording from the
Voice name field on the Hotel Guests screen
1 Go to the Hotel Guests screen for the

guest whose recorded voice name you
want to access.
2 Position the cursor on the Voice name
field.
To play the recording, press F10 and

follow the system instructions.
To delete the recording, press the

DELETE key.
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Guest language choice

If the Multilingual Guest Conversation
package is installed, the Language field
displays the system abbreviation for the
guests language choice. If a guest does not
specify a language, the system uses the language specified in the System language
field on Application screen page 2.
Guest Personal ID
The system displays the unique Personal ID
code associated with the guest room in the
Personal ID field. See Using hotel guest
IDs on page 243 for information on how
the system calculates the value in this field.
VIEWING AND CHANGING GUEST NAMES AND LANGUAGE CHOICES
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No
Name Displays the name for checked-in guests.

Unoccupied guest rooms display the room extension number in this field.
Voice name Allows access to the recording of
the hotel guest's name. If a guest has recorded his
or her name, the value in this field is the length of
the recording. A value of 0:00 indicates that no
voice name has been recorded.
Language Accepts the two-letter code of the

language hotel guests hear when they call the
voice messaging system. This field is available
only if the Multilingual Guest Conversation package is installed.
Personal ID Displays the hotel guest room's
personal ID.
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Managing messages for an individual guest
Guests can save their messages after listening to them. The voice messaging system
stores guest messages for the length of time
you specify. The length of time can be customized for individual guests.
The default hold setting is 0 days. This
means that messages a guest has listened to,
but not archived, are erased at midnight of
the day the messages are listened to.
The default archive setting is two days. With
this default setting, messages are erased at
midnight two days after being archived. If
the default settings do not meet a particular
guests needs, follow the procedure To customize hold and archive message times for
a guest on this page to adjust the values for
an individual guest.
On the Hotel Guests screen, the system
automatically keeps track of the total length
of new and saved messages for each guest
room extension in the New msgs and
Total fields. The extension number is displayed in the Extension ID field.
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To customize hold and archive message times for

a guest

guest whose hold and archive values you
want to change.
the applicable hold and archive message
settings and press ENTER.
MANAGING MESSAGES FOR AN INDIVIDUAL GUEST
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No

voice messaging system retains a guest message
that has been heard but not archived by the guest.
If you type 0 (zero), the message is held only
until midnight of the day it was first heard.
voice messaging system retains archived guest
messages. The voice messaging system uses the
number in this field to determine when an
archived guest message is deleted.
Extension # ID Displays the hotel guest's

extension number.
New msgs Shows the number of new messages
and the total length of the new messages.
Total Shows the number of new and saved messages and the total length of all messages in m:ss
format.
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Adding and deleting hotel guest rooms

and messages
The PMS integration usually provides all of
the guest room numbers to the voice messaging system automatically. If you do not
have a PMS integration that can provide
guest room numbers, use the next procedure, To manually add hotel guest rooms
to the voice messaging system, when the
voice messaging system is first being set up.
To manually add hotel guest rooms to the voice
messaging system
1 Go to the Hotel Guests screen and press

F8.
2 From the Add menu, select Hotel
guest, and press ENTER.
3 Type the room number or a range of
numbers that you want to add. For
example, type 300-315. Press ENTER.
4 To add more hotel rooms, repeat steps 2
and 3.
5 When you are finished, press ESC to exit
the Add menu.
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Manually adding hotel guest names

The PMS integration usually provides all of
the guest names to the system automatically. If you do not have a PMS integration
that automatically provides guest names,
use the next procedure, To manually add
guest names.
To manually add guest names

room of the guest that you want to add
to the system.
2 Type the guests name in the Name
field, using the format Last name, first
name and press ENTER.
ADDING AND DELETING HOTEL GUEST ROOMS AND MESSAGES
Deleting hotel guests, their messages,

or both
If you delete a hotel guest at the voice messaging system console, the system automatically deletes all messages for that guest. If
necessary, you can delete only the guest's
messages from the system.
To delete a hotel guest, their messages, or both

guest that you want to delete.
2 Position the cursor on any field on the
screen for that hotel guest and press F7.
3 From the Delete menu, select either
Hotel guest or Only messages, and
press ENTER.
4 When the voice messaging system asks
for confirmation, press ENTER.
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Changing a hotel guests call transfer

and notification settings
The call transfer, greeting, and action settings for each hotel guest are located in the
Transfer-Greeting-Action section of the
Hotel Guests screen. The message notification settings for each guest are located in
the Message Notification section of the
Hotel Guests screen. You can change the
default values for these fields, if necessary
for individual guests, by following the procedure under Managing messages for an
individual guest on page 252. Any custom
settings you select in these fields for a guest
are reset automatically when the guest is
checked out.
Call transfer settings

Each new hotel guest is given the same
transfer option settings as those listed on
the Default Subscriber screen. You can
change these default options and specify
whether to transfer calls directly to a hotel
guest or, if not, where to transfer the calls
instead.
To change a hotel guests call transfer settings

hotel guest whose call transfer options
you want to change.
2 Specify where you want calls for a hotel
guest to be transferred by doing one of
the following:
If you want calls to be transferred to

the hotel guest, type y in the
Transfer? field. Then, in the field to
the right of the Transfer? field, type
the extension that you want to transfer calls to. The default setting is x
which transfers calls to the hotel
guest's extension.
If you do not want calls transferred to

the hotel guest, type n in the
Transfer? field. Calls are then transferred directly to the guest's voice
mailbox.
3 In the unnamed field under the Transfer? field, type the call transfer type.
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CHANGING A HOTEL GUESTS CALL TRANSFER AND NOTIFICATION SETTINGS
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No

on or off.
Phone number Accepts the extension to transfer calls to if call transfer is turned on. If you want
the call to go to the guests extension, type x.
Otherwise, type the extension number.
Call transfer type Determines how the phone
system and voice messaging system interact during call transfers to the hotel guest's voice mailbox.
A (Await answer) Places callers on hold and
dials the specified extension or phone number. If a call is answered within the number of
rings specified in the Rings field, the call is
transferred to this box. If a busy signal is
received or if the call is not answered, the
greeting is played and the appropriate action
is taken.
W (Wait for ringback) Places caller on hold

and dials this extension or phone number. If a
busy signal is received, the greeting is played
and the appropriate action is taken. If the call
is answered within the number of rings specified in the Rings field, the call is transferred
to this box. If the call is not answered within
the specified number of rings, the call is
released to the station and the caller cannot
leave a message until the phone system transfers the call using call forward to personal
greeting.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is transferred. This field
is available only if the call transfer type is Await
R (Release) Places caller on hold, dials the

specified extension or phone number, and
releases the call. If a busy signal is received or
the call is not answered, the caller cannot
leave a message until the phone system transfers the call using call forward to personal
greeting.
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Guest greeting
You can access the personal greeting for a
guest from the Std field, under Greeting. If
this field contains 0:00, no greeting has
been recorded and the system's default
greeting is used.
To change the standard greeting for a guest

hotel guest whose greeting you want to
change.
2 In the Std field, change the current
greeting by either deleting the current
greeting or rerecording a new one.
See Making a recording on page 428
for more information.
Action after greeting and maximum

message length
You can change the action that the voice
messaging system takes after playing a hotel
guest's personal greeting. Also, some guests
may need to receive longer messages than
the default guest setting allows. Use the next
procedure to change the action after greeting or the maximum length for an individual guests messages.
To change the action after a guests greeting

guest whose action after greeting you
want to change.
2 On the top line of the Action section of
the screen, type the action that you want
the voice messaging system to perform
after the hotel guest's greeting.
3 In the "Max-msg" field, type the maximum length, in seconds, of messages
that this hotel guest can receive.
4 In the Edits OK? field, confirm that the
setting is y so that callers can change a
message they have just recorded.
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Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No
Std (Greeting) Accesses the hotel guest's personal greeting. If the field contains 0:00, no greeting has been recorded and the system's default
greeting is played.
Action Determines the action the voice messaging system takes after playing the greeting.
Options are:
Max-msg Accepts the maximum length, in seconds, for a message from an external caller. The
default setting is 90 seconds.
Edits OK? Accepts y to let callers change a message they have just recorded. Otherwise, type n.
S (Say good-bye) Plays a prompt which offers

further assistance, pauses, says good-bye,
then disconnects.
O (Transfer to operator) Routes the call to
the operator box.
good-bye.
R (Restart) Returns the call to the opening
greeting box.
another system ID. If the Action is G, then in
the unlabeled field to the right, type the system ID that you want to route the call to.
T (Take a message) Records a message.
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Message notification
Each new hotel guest is given the same message notification settings as the default subscriber. These settings are for one message
notification number. You can change these
settings and specify whether a hotel guest is
notified of waiting messages and whether
messages for that guest are delivered to
another number if they have not been listened to for a specified amount of time.
To change a guests message notification settings

hotel guest whose message notification
and delivery settings you want to
change.
2 Type settings in the Lamp # and Activate lamps? fields.
3 On line #1 in the Message Notification
section, type x to direct the system to
the guests extension. If you dont want
the system to dial the guests extension,
type the phone number that you want
the system to dial and press ENTER.
4 In the Delay field, type the number of
minutes the system waits before delivering a message after it arrives, and press
ENTER.
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and days when this schedule is applicable, and press ENTER.
rings the system waits for an answer
when attempting to deliver the message,
and press ENTER.
of minutes the system waits before retrying the message delivery number, and
press ENTER.
8 In the Method field, indicate the message delivery method, and press ENTER.
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No
Lamp # Accepts the extension ID where the

hotel guest receives message waiting indication.
The default setting is x, which represents the
guest's extension.
Activate lamps? Accepts y or n to turn message waiting indication on or off.
On now? Indicates whether message waiting
indication is on. If the guest currently has messages, Yes appears in this field.
#1 Accepts the extension to dial for message
delivery to a phone.
Delay Accepts the length of time, in minutes,
that the voice messaging system waits before
attempting to deliver a new message.
Schedule Accepts the length of time, in hours
and days, that a specific extension ID is used for
message delivery. In the Hours field, use the
hh:mmam format (9:00am). In the Days field,
use M T W H F S U for the days of the week, where
H = Thursday and U = Sunday.
attempting message delivery to the phone number.

answered by a person who does not enter a personal ID (unless auto-login is enabled), or
answered by an answering machine.
Method Accepts a message delivery method.
is no delivery delay available with this method.
retrying this number. With this method, the
system delivers messages no more frequently
than the interval scheduled.
U (Urgent) Starts message delivery as soon as
a new urgent message arrives, and repeats
this step each time a new urgent message
arrives.
O (Off)
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Managing wake-up calls for an individual guest
If necessary, hotel guests can set and

change their own wake-up call time. They
can select either a single wake-up call or a
daily wake-up call for each day they are at
the hotel, using the next procedure, To add
or change a guest wake-up call.
Hotel staff should become familiar with this
procedure, in the event that a guest requires
assistance setting up or changing a wake-up
call.
To add or change a guest wake-up call
1 The guest calls the voice messaging system, checks any messages, and then
selects the wake-up call option by following the system prompts.
2 The guest enters the wake-up time on
the phone keypad. For example, 700
equals 7:00.
3 The guest selects A.M. or P.M.
4 The guest selects one time only or
daily. The system confirms the
selected wake-up time.
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MANAGING WAKE-UP CALLS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL GUEST
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No
Wake-up call Contains the wake-up call time set

by the hotel guest.
Daily? Shows whether the hotel guest wants

wake-up calls at the time shown in the Wake-up
call field every day the guest is at the hotel.
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Converting a hotel guest to a subscriber
To give a hotel guest access to additional

voice messaging options, convert the guest
to a subscriber. If you convert a hotel guest
to a subscriber, convert the person back to a
hotel guest in order to check him or her out.
When you convert a hotel guest to a subscriber, the guest has options and privileges
not usually available to hotel guests and is
not listed in the hotel directory.
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To convert a hotel guest to a subscriber

hotel guest you want to convert to a subscriber. Press F2.
2 From the Command menu, choose
Convert. To view or change settings for
a hotel guest who has been converted to
a subscriber, go to that individuals personal directory page.
CONVERTING A HOTEL GUEST TO A SUBSCRIBER
To convert a subscriber back to a hotel guest
1 Go to the personal directory page for the

subscriber you want to convert back to a
hotel guest. Press F2.
2 From the Command menu, choose
Convert. To view or change settings
for a subscriber who has been converted
to a hotel guest, go to the Hotel Guests
screen for that guest.
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Changing guest options for a hotel guest
Hotel staff can view and change options for

an individual guest as needed by using the
Hotel Guests screen for that guest.
First time enrollment

Hotel staff can see whether a hotel guest has
completed the first-time enrollment activities by viewing the value in the First-time
enrollment? field. If this field is set to Yes,
the hotel guest has not yet completed
enrollment in the voice messaging system,
and the system will play the enrollment
conversation the first time the guest calls
the system.
Hotel guest directory

If the hotel guest directory option is available to all guests on the Hospitality Setup
screen, you can determine whether a guest
has chosen to be in the directory by viewing
the value in the Include in guest directory? field on the Hotel Guests screen for
that guest. See Setting up the hotel guest
directory on page 226 for more information.
If a hotel guest needs instructions on how to
be added to the guest directory or how to
change their guest directory setting, hotel
staff can guide the guest through the process using the next procedure, To add a
guest to the hotel guest directory.
To add a guest to the hotel guest directory
1 The guest accesses the voice messaging

system, checks any messages, then
selects the guest directory option and
follows the system instruction prompts.
2 The guest records a voice name. If the
PMS does not provide spelled guest
names, the guest is asked to enter the
first three letters of their last name by
using the phone keypad.
The guest is now included in the hotel
guest directory. Their name will be
removed from the guest directory at
checkout.
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CHANGING GUEST OPTIONS FOR A HOTEL GUEST
Personal greetings and passwords

You can change whether a guest can record
a personal greeting by changing the default
value in the Allow personal greeting? field.
Do not change the default value in the
Allow password? field without performing
the procedure given in Allowing hotel
guests to use passwords on page 238.
If a hotel guest forgets his or her password,
you can delete the password so that the
guest can create a new one.
To delete a hotel guests password

hotel guest whose password you want to
delete. Press F7.
2 From the Delete menu, select Password and press ENTER. If no password
has been set for this hotel guest, Password does not appear as an option.
3 Type y to delete the password, and
press ENTER.
4 Tell the hotel guest to create a new
password.
Hotel Guests screen

H O T E L
G U E S T S
NAME SORT
Personal ID: 8384
SC
Hold/archive msgs:
0 / 3 days
Extension # ID: 384
New msgs: 0/0
Total: 0=0:00
Yes--> X
|>>Std:0:00
| Take-msg
|
Activate lamps? Yes
On now? No
#1: X
4 rings 30 min, Off
Daily? Yes

Allow password? No
First time enrollment? Instructs the voice messaging system to play the enrollment conversation
the first time each hotel guest accesses the voice
messaging system. Activate this option by typing
y. Otherwise, type n.
Include in guest directory? Shows whether
guests have their names included in the hotel
guest directory.
Allow personal greeting? Allows guests to

record a personal greeting for their room extension. If no personal greeting is recorded, the system plays a standard greeting. If the guest has
recorded a voice name, it will be included in the
greeting. Activate this option by typing y. Otherwise, type n.
Allow password? Allows hotel guests to assign
passwords for their voice mailboxes. Activate this
option by typing y. Otherwise, type n.
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Hotel information service
A hotel information service uses linked

transaction boxes to offer announcements
and other information to hotel guests. Every
menu or announcement in the information
service is contained in a transaction box.
You record the menu or announcement as
the transaction boxs greeting, and then set
up the next set of links.
A hotel information service can meet a variety of needs, and you can easily modify the
service as your needs change. You may want
to provide information about hotel services,
entertainment and dining, or transportation. You can also work with businesses that
want to place advertisements on your
service.
See also
Language select box overview................. 382
268
If your hotel has guests who speak other

languages, you may want to offer your information service in multiple languages by
building parallel menus and announcements in each language. The first menu can
introduce the service and offer guests a language choice that corresponds to a one-key
dialing option. When guests select a language,
they hear the main menu and subsequent
information in the language of their choice.
The flowchart on the next page illustrates
how a hotel information service works.
HOTEL INFORMATION SERVICE
Welcome to the Inns Info Line. For general information

on the hotel, press 1. For other information, press 2.
2
For information on hotel services,

enter 1. To find out how to get somewhere in the hotel, press 2. For more
information on schedules . . .
For directions to destinations in the

city, press 1. For transportation
options, press 2.
For directions to the airport, press 1.

For directions to the shopping mall,
press 2.
To get a taxi, press 1. For schedule

and route information from FastTran,
press 2.
2
To get to the
airport . . .
To get to the
shopping
mall . . .
A The main menu introduces the hotel

information service and tells callers how
to access the information they want. You
can set up access to the main menu for
hotel guests through a one-key dialing
option.
B Each submenu provides a list of additional choices. Be sure to tell callers
which number to press for each choice.
Direct dial to
Red Taxi
Direct dial to
the FastTran
information line
C Announcements provide information to

callers. After an announcement, you can
give callers the option of returning to the
main menu, or you can have the system
say good-bye and disconnect.
D In an announcement, you can give
callers the option of dialing a business
directly from the information service.
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Help option for an information service
You may want to provide a Help option in

your information service to give guests
guidance on what the service is and how to
use it. A Help option is a special set of submenus that callers can reach easily from
many places in the service. Set up each Help
component in its own transaction box.
Keep the following in mind when setting up

help:
Make help accessible from the main
menu.
A caller who is unfamiliar with the information service needs guidance right
away.
Make the access method consistent.
Offer the same one-key dialing digit to
reach the Help menu from any menu or
announcement.
From a Help option, you can give
callers the ability to directly dial the
hotel operator. This option is useful for
callers who cannot find the information
they need or who are not comfortable
using the system. In the transaction box
where the Help text is recorded, use a
one-key dialing option for direct access.
Typically, 0 (zero) is used for routing callers to the operator.
Provide a route back to the main menu.
In the transaction box where the Help
text is recorded, use a one-key dialing
option to route callers back to the main
menu. Enter the main menus system ID
in the one-key dialing menu.
See also
Setting up one-key dialing ...................... 116
Routing callers from a transaction box using
one-key dialing......................................... 361
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Direct call transfers
A basic hotel information service contains

menus that you set up to route callers to
submenus and announcements. As you
expand your service, you may want to
transfer callers who select certain menu
options to an internal extension or to an
external phone number.
Internal call routing

Callers can be transferred to a hotel extension (for example, to room service or to the
front desk).
Direct-dial option
Callers can be transferred to an external
number, such as an advertisers business. If
the voice messaging system sends a call to
an external number on a release transfer
and the number does not answer, the call
terminates. The caller is not returned to the
hotel information service.
The direct-dial option depends on certain
capabilities of the phone system. Keep in
mind that the hotel is responsible for any
long-distance charges for calls transferred
to an external number by using the directdial option.
See also
Incorporate advertisers into an information
service ....................................................... 272
Setting up call transfer............................. 352
271
Incorporate advertisers into

an information service
You can incorporate a 24-hour information
service for local businesses into your hotel
information service, providing information
to guests and generating income for your
hotel. Service categories allow businesses
to choose the level of visibility they want on
your information service. You can also use
service categories to structure your advertisement fee schedule.
Typical service categories

Complete service sponsorship
One business is the information services
primary advertiser and is featured in the
main menu, which all callers hear.
Branch sponsorship
A business sponsors a branch of the service to target a particular audience. For
example, a ski shop might sponsor a
submenu for ski conditions, transportation, and equipment.
Service announcement with direct-dial
A business sponsors an announcement
offering callers the option of directly
dialing the business.
Service announcement
A business sponsors one or more
announcements in the service.
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Getting your information service started

Before contacting businesses about advertising on your information service, decide
which sponsorship options you want to
offer and how you want to work with the
businesses. Some decisions to make
include:
Responsibility
Businesses can provide a written script
that you record, or they can record and
maintain their own announcements
directly over the phone.
Rate schedule
You can charge by level of sponsorship,
by the length or type of announcement,
or by how many callers hear the
announcement.
Advertiser enrollment
If you want to send advertisers voice
mail messages, enroll them as subscriber guests of the system manager or
advertising manager. Enroll advertisers
who record their own announcements
as regular subscribers.
Setting up remote recording for advertisers
You can enable a business to maintain its

advertisements on your hotel information
service by using the remote recording
option.
To enable a business to have remote control of its advertisements
1 Set up a transaction box for the business.

2 Enroll the business, or an individual
from the business, as a regular subscriber on the voice messaging system,
and give them ownership of the transaction box containing their announcement.
4 Provide training to the business subscriber

on how to create passwords, and how to
dial in and record advertisements.
5 Clarify ownership, content, and maintenance of the advertisement.
3 To ensure proper access to the system

and to maintain security, turn on the
following access codes from the Access
Code Options page on the Personal
Directory screen:
B (No rect summary)
C (No public notify)
F (First time enroll)
P (No public message)
U (Not to subscribers)
Y (No open groups)
See Changing access options on

See also
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Keep your information service current
Keeping your information service up to date

is key to building guests interest in the
service. Make sure that the staff member
responsible for maintaining an announcement rerecords it when the information
becomes outdated.
For example, your hotel restaurant might
provide an announcement that lists weekly
specials. The restaurant manager could
maintain this announcements transaction
box, and record a new menu each week over
the phone.
Encourage advertisers to keep their
announcements current. You can remind
advertisers that their announcements will
attract new customers only if they contain
up-to-date information. Businesses may
find it easier to record and maintain their
own announcements remotely rather than
send updated scripts to you.
Periodically, you may want to evaluate how
hotel guests are using your information
service.
See also
Using reports to monitor your system ... 484
274
To measure how guests use the information

service
1 Create a usage report for each transaction box you want to evaluate. If few
guests reach an announcement or a
branch of your service, you may want to
reevaluate the usefulness of the information or reword the recordings.
2 To measure call activity, create a call log.
This report can help you evaluate the
total call activity on the voice messaging
system.
C H A P T E R 1 2
Personal Directory
Personal Directory overview............................ 276
Setting up message notification..................... 298
Adding new subscribers .................................. 278
Setting up voice and fax delivery notification

options .............................................................. 302
Deleting personal directory information........ 280

Adding a subscriber fax box .......................... 305
Assigning system manager status .................. 281
Customizing fax delivery options ................... 306
Assigning a language ...................................... 282
Changing access options ................................ 312
Setting up message storage ........................... 283
Enrolling a subscriber ...................................... 316
Setting up transfer options ............................. 284
Setting up e-mail options................................ 318
Setting up call screening, subscriber greeting,
and call routing ................................................ 290
Setting up live record options ........................ 320
Setting up one-key dialing .............................. 296
Adding guests .................................................. 322
CHAPTER 12: PERSONAL DIRECTORY
275
Personal Directory overview
The Personal Directory contains a page for

each subscriber, guest, and system manager
enrolled in the system. When you create a
new subscriber, this screen shows the
default settings from Application screen
page 7. You can change the settings on the
personal directory pages for those subscribers who want features different from the
defaults.
Adding new subscribers to the system is a
simple process. You add a new page to the
Personal Directory and enter the subscriber
name, extension, and other preliminary
information. Later, subscribers follow the
systems enrollment conversation through
the process of setting up their mailboxes.
Subscriber screen control areas
Like Application screen page 7, the Subscriber screen is divided into three control
areas. The top area of the screen contains
information about the subscriber or guest.
This includes the persons first and last
name, a recording of the name, a personal
ID, and indicators showing the total count
and duration of messages received. On the
Subscriber screen, this area also shows an
extension number, message holding and
archiving settings, and any service access
options that are set. These additional fields
are not available for a guest.
The middle area of the screen contains
fields that store optional greetings and also
control how calls are transferred and messages are taken. These features determine
whether calls are transferred to the subscribers extension, how many rings to wait
before assuming no answer, whether callers
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are allowed to hold, and whether the system

screens calls. You can also see which greeting is active, and determine how the system
will handle callers who do not press a
touchtone during the greeting.
In the middle area of the Subscriber screen,
you also set the maximum allowable length
of an individual message, and select
whether a caller can edit a message. These
features are not available for a guest.
The bottom area of the Subscriber screen
controls message notification, message
delivery, and fax mail for a subscriber or
guest.
Personal Directory expanded options
The Personal Directory includes six
expanded screens for setting additional
subscriber options. You access the
expanded screens by pressing CTRL+E and
then selecting any of the following options
from the Expanded Options menu:
Access codes
Transfer options
Fax options
Notification
E-mail options
Live record options
The settings for each of these screens are

described in this chapter.
PERSONAL DIRECTORY OVERVIEW
Personal Directory, Subscriber screen

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Std: 0:00 | Take-msg <ID>
| Busy: 0:00 |
Screening? No Holding? No | Alt: 0:00 | Max-msg: 90 sec Edits OK? Yes
--Message notification-------------------------------------------------------Lamp #:X
Activate lamps? Yes On now? No
#1: X
after 0
min, 8:00am- 6:00pm MTWHF
5 rings 30
min,Batch
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60
min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Ctrl-E for expanded options
See also
Default subscriber overview ..................... 94
277
Adding new subscribers
There are two ways to add new subscribers

to the Personal Directory:
To add a subscriber
Adding a single subscriber at a time.
1 Press CTRL+D to go to the Personal

Directory. Press F8.
Adding a range of subscriber mailboxes,

and then updating each with the subscribers first and last names. This
method is an efficient way to add multiple subscribers to the system at one
time.
When you add a new subscriber, the voice

messaging system automatically sets the
Subscriber screen with the default settings
you specified on Application screen page 7.
You can change these settings to meet the
needs of the subscriber.
2 From the Add menu, select Subscriber

and press ENTER.
3 In the dialog box that opens, type an
extension ID for the subscriber and
press ENTER.
4 Type the subscribers last name and
press ENTER.
5 Type the subscribers first and middle
names, and press ENTER. Both of these
names are optional.
6 Establish a personal ID:
To accept the personal ID the voice

messaging system creates, press
ENTER.
To create a different personal ID, type

a new one and press ENTER.
7 To add more subscribers, repeat steps 3

through 6.
8 To exit the Add menu, press ESC.
See also
Enrolling a subscriber.............................. 316
278
ADDING NEW SUBSCRIBERS
To add a range of subscriber mailboxes

Directory. Press F8.
2 From the Add menu, select Range and
press ENTER.
3 In the Start field, type the starting
extension and press TAB.
4 In the Stop field, type the ending
extension and press ENTER.
5 For a prefix on an extension ID, type the
prefix numbers or letters and press TAB.
6 For a suffix on an extension ID, type the
suffix numbers or letters and press
ENTER.
7 When the voice messaging system displays the range and asks you to confirm,
type y to confirm. Otherwise, type n
to repeat steps 3 through 6 and add the
correct range.
8 When prompted, press any key to continue.
9 When the voice messaging system completes adding the range, press PAGE UP
or PAGE DOWN to scroll through the
Personal Directory until you find the
new subscriber pages. For each new
page, type the subscribers first and last
names.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
5 rings 30 min,Batch
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696
Name Accepts the subscriber's name. Type

<last name>, <first name> if you
want to sort subscribers by their last names.
Personal ID Accepts the subscriber's personal
ID. The system supplies a suggested personal ID
that is based on the extension ID. In most cases,
this is 9 followed by the extension number.
Extension ID Accepts the subscriber's extension. The system allows extension numbers up to
10 digits. This number is usually the same as the
subscribers phone number, but this is not a
requirement.
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Deleting personal directory information
From the Personal Directory, you can delete

any of the following:
To delete a subscriber or a subscribers messages
Subscriber
1 Go to the subscribers page in the Personal Directory and press F7.
Subscribers messages
Subscribers security code
When you delete a subscriber, you automatically delete all messages, private message
groups, guests, transaction boxes, and interview boxes owned by that subscriber.
If you have the optional E-Mail Integration
package, a subscribers messages are not
deleted from the e-mail system when you
delete the subscriber from the voice messaging system.

Subscriber or Only messages and
press ENTER.
for confirmation, press ENTER.
To delete a subscribers security code
1 Go to the subscriber's page in the Personal Directory and press F7.

2 From the Delete menu, select Security
code and press ENTER.
3 Type y to delete the code, and press
ENTER.
4 Tell the subscriber to create a new security code.
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Assigning system manager status
Any enrolled subscriber can be assigned

system manager status. However, only a
system manager can assign or remove system manager status.
You cannot remove system manager status
from the system manager whose personal
ID you used to sign in.
To assign system manager status to a subscriber

2 From the Add menu, select Manager
status and press ENTER. The words
system manager appear to the right of
the subscribers name.
To remove system manager status from a
subscriber

2 From the Delete menu, select Manager
status and press ENTER.
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Assigning a language
When you have a multilingual voice messaging system, you can assign a language for
the prompts that subscribers and guests
hear when they are retrieving messages. If
you do not specify a language, the voice
messaging system uses the language specified in the System language field on Application screen page 2.
To assign a language for a subscriber
1 Go to the subscribers page in the Personal Directory.

2 In the Language field, type the two-letter code for the language and press
ENTER.
See Selecting a language for a port, on

page 40, for a table of the two-letter language codes.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696

language you want subscribers to hear. Available
only on multilingual voice messaging systems.
282
Setting up message storage
You can control the length of time that a

subscribers old messages are held or archived.
When a new message arrives for a subscriber or guest, it is stored until it has been
retrieved. After the message has been
heard, it becomes an old message and is
saved (held) for a number of days. The
Hold msgs field on the Subscriber screen
specifies the number of days the old message is saved by the system for that subscriber.
Subscribers may want to save some messages to listen to or respond to at a later
date. Subscribers can archive these messages. An archived message is saved for a
longer period of time than a held message.
Each time subscribers listen to the archived
message, they must archive it again. Otherwise, it is deleted. A message can be rearchived an unlimited number of times.
The Archive msgs field on the Subscriber

screen specifies the number of days a message is archived for that subscriber.
The voice messaging system deletes messages at midnight of the day when the hold/
archive times expire.
To set the number of days that old messages are
held or archived

the applicable hold and archive settings
and press ENTER.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696

voice messaging system retains a subscriber message that has been heard but not archived. If you
type 0 (zero), the message is held until midnight
of the day it was first heard.

voice messaging system retains archived subscriber messages. The voice messaging system
uses the number in this field to determine when an
archived subscriber message is deleted.
283
Setting up transfer options
The voice messaging system lets you set up

different call transfer options for individual
subscribers. The system handles calls by following the transfer-greeting-action structure set up for a subscribers mailbox. In
most cases, the system first tries to transfer
a call to the extension. If the line is busy or
unanswered, the system plays a greeting
and takes a message.
You can also control the way the system
handles unanswered calls to the extension.
For example, you can specify that an extension does not take a message, or that it
routes the caller to an operator.
Transfer type
To transfer calls, turn on call transfer and
select a call transfer type. The call transfer
types are described in the field descriptions
for the Personal Directory Subscriber screen
on page 287.
All call transfer types put the call on hold
and then dial the extension. The most common choice is Release. The Await
answer transfer type is required for setting
up call screening and call holding options
on the Expanded Transfer Options screen.
Call screening
Call screening allows the system to
screen calls transferred to the subscriber, who can then decide whether to
take the call. To enable call screening,
turn on call transfer and call screening
on the Subscriber screen, and then set
the call screening options on the
See the procedure To set up call screening on page 292 for information on how
to set up call screening.
Call holding
The voice messaging system lets several
callers at once hold for a busy extension.
To enable call holding, call transfer must
be turned on. The call holding options
are described in the field descriptions on
page 289. See the procedure To turn on
call holding on page 288 for information on setting up call holding.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
284
See the procedure To set up transfer

options on page 286 for more information
on setting up call transfer.
SETTING UP TRANSFER OPTIONS
Action options
After setting the transfer type, specify the
action you want the voice messaging system to take after playing the greeting. These
options are described on page 289.
The option Take a message records a
message for the owner of the voice mailbox
and is the most common choice.
Continued
285
To set up transfer options
1 Go to the subscribers page in the

Personal Directory.
press ENTER.
field, type the extension ID that you
want the call transferred to, and press
ENTER.
4 In the unnamed field under the Transfer? field, type the applicable call transfer type. See the field descriptions on
5 If you used the call transfer type a
(Await answer) or w (Wait for ringback), then in the field to the right of the
transfer option, type the number of
times you want the extension to ring
before the call is transferred (if set to
Wait for ringback) or recalled (if set to
Await answer).
You must specify a minimum of three
rings.
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P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Std: 0:00 | Take-msg
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696

on or off.
Phone number Accepts the extension to transfer calls to. If you want the call to go to the subscriber, type x. Otherwise, type the extension
number.
Call transfer type Accepts a letter for the call
transfer type to determine how the phone system
and voice messaging system interact during call
transfer to the subscribers box.
dials this extension or phone number. If
in the Rings field, transfers the call to this
subscriber. If busy or not answered, plays the
greeting, then takes the action indicated in
the Action section of the screen.

and dials this extension or phone number. If
busy, plays the greeting, then takes the action
screen. If answered within the number of rings
to this box. If not answered within the number
of rings, the call is released to the phone system. If busy or not answered, the caller cannot
leave a message unless the phone system
transfers the call using call forward to personal
greeting.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is transferred. This
applies only if the call transfer type is Await
answer or Wait for ringback. You must specify
a minimum of three rings.
R (Release) Puts the caller on hold, dials this

extension or phone number, and then
Continued
287
To turn on call holding

Personal Directory.
press ENTER.
field, type the extension that you want
the call transferred to, and press ENTER.
4 Type the call transfer type a (Await
answer) or w (Wait for ringback). See
the field descriptions on page 287 for a
description of these types.
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transferred.
6 In the Holding? field, type y or v,
and press ENTER.
7 In the unnamed Action field, at the top
of the section, type t (Take a message).
If you do not use the Take a message
setting, record a different call holding
prompt. The Take a message setting
offers callers, who are placed on hold,
the choice to continue holding, leave a

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Std: 0:00 | Take-msg SERVICES
| Busy:0:00
|
#1: X
after 0
5 rings 30
min,Batch
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60
min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696
Holding? Indicates whether or not you want to

allow calls to hold if the line is busy. This selection
affects the voice messaging system only, and not
the phone system.
The following options are available:
Y Callers can choose to hold, leave a
N Callers cannot hold to leave a message.

H (Hang up)
good-bye.

greeting box.
the owner of the voice mailbox. For personal
message boxes, transaction boxes, and voice
detect boxes, you can leave a message for a
group. Type the name of the group in the field
immediately to the right.
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Setting up call screening, subscriber greeting,

and call routing
On the Expanded Transfer Options screen,
you can program transfer and call screening
options, change the active personal greeting, and set additional message taking
options for a subscriber.
Call screening options

You can set up additional call screening
options for subscribers by typing the appropriate option values in the Transfer
options or Screening options fields. Possible option value combinations are
described in the Call screening option
combinations table below.
Subscriber greeting options

You can view and change which greeting
(day or alternate) is active for a subscriber.
You can also activate or deactivate the busy
greeting.
When a busy greeting is activated and a
caller is transferred to the busy extension,
the voice messaging system plays a greeting
(either the subscribers recorded greeting or
a voice messaging system prompt) telling
the caller that the extension is busy.
To change greeting options, perform the
procedure To change greeting options on
page 294.
To set call screening options, perform the

procedure To set up call screening on
page 292.
Call screening option combinations
Option
Value
Result
Identify the subscriber for

whom the call is intended
ic
This setting is useful when two subscribers share

an extension, by allowing a subscriber to refuse a
call meant for another subscriber and send it to
the other subscribers voice mailbox.
Ask unidentified callers to

state their names
sc
This option prompts an unidentified caller to

state his or her name before allowing the caller to
speak to the subscriber. As part of call screening,
a subscriber can refuse the call and send it to
their voice mailbox.
or
mc
Announce unidentified
callers with a beep
290
A subscriber hears a beep before being connected

to an unidentified caller. This lets the subscriber
know exactly when a call is being connected and
that it is from an unidentified caller.
SETTING UP CALL SCREENING, SUBSCRIBER GREETING, AND CALL ROUTING
Personal Directory, Expanded Transfer Options screen

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
T R A N S F E R
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Transfer? Yes-->892
| Busy: 0:00 |
Screening? No Holding? No | Alt: 0:00 | Max-msg:
90 sec Edits OK? Yes
|
| Active: STD | After msg: Say-bye
| Busy:
No |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2-> 456
3-> 555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
0 seconds
Call routing options

From the Expanded Transfer Options
screen, you can set up a transfer-greetingaction sequence that provides special routing of incoming calls for a subscriber. For
basic call routing information, see the procedure To set up other action settings after
the greeting is played on page 294.
In addition, when the subscribers extension is busy or unanswered, the system can:
Play the subscribers greeting, take a

message, and then route the call to
another extension ID. See the procedure To play the subscriber greeting,
take a message, and then route the call
to another extension on page 294.
Play the subscribers greeting, which

contains a one-key dialing menu so the
caller can choose where the call is
routed. See the procedure To set up
one-key dialing on page 296.
Continued
291
To set up call screening

press ENTER.
7 In the Transfer options or Screening

options fields, do one of the following:
To prevent a subscriber from controlling screening options, type the

applicable transfer options in the
Transfer options field and press
ENTER.
To allow a subscriber to change

screening options by phone, type the
applicable screening options in the
Screening options field and press
ENTER.

field, type the subscribers extension.
4 In the field under the Transfer? field,
type the call transfer type a (Await
answer).
answered. You must specify at least three
rings.
292
8 If you typed options in the Screening

options field, type y in the Screening? field.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
T R A N S F E R
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
| Busy: 0:00 |
Screening? Yes Holding? No | Alt: 0:00 | Max-msg:
Transfer options :
|
| Active: STD | After msg: GotoID-->357
| Busy:
No |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2-> 456
3-> 555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
0 seconds
Screening? Indicates whether the system is

using the call transfer options in the Transfer
options field or the screening options in the
Screening options field. Type n to use the
options in the Transfer options field, or type y
to use the options in the Screening options
field.
Transfer options Accepts the call transfer
options you want to use for a subscriber.
A (Announce) Sounds a beep before connecting the caller. With most phone systems,
this option lets subscribers know exactly when
the call is connected or that a call is from an
external caller.
C (Confirm) Before the system transfers the
call, the subscriber chooses whether to take
the call. If the subscriber refuses, the system
plays the appropriate greeting and takes the
action indicated in the Action field.
G (Gather account number) With LAN integration, asks callers to provide their account
number before routing the call.
I (Introduce) The subscriber hears Call for

<subscribers name> before being connected to the caller. Use this option when
phone.
their names. Before a call is transferred, the
If the subscriber rejects the call or is not available, and the caller leaves a message, the
callers recorded name plays at the beginning
of the message. If the caller doesnt record a
message, the subscriber receives the callers
recorded name alone as the message.
P (Gather phone number) With LAN integration, asks a caller to give a phone number
before routing the call.
Before a call is transferred, the subscriber
hears Call from <callers name>. If the subscriber rejects the call or is not available, the
recorded name is not saved.
Screening options Accepts the screening
options you want to use for a subscriber. The
options for the Transfer options and Screening
options fields are the same.
Continued
293
To change greeting options

Personal Directory.
3 Under Greeting, in the Active field,
type the appropriate value and press
ENTER.
4 In the Busy field, type the appropriate
To play the subscriber greeting, take a message,

and then route the call to another extension

Personal Directory.
3 Under Action, in the After msg field,
type g (Go to system ID) and press
ENTER.
4 In the field to the right of the After msg
field, type the extension ID to which you
want the call to go, and press ENTER.
To set up other action settings after the greeting is played

appropriate value.
294

appropriate value.
appropriate value.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
T R A N S F E R
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
SERVICES
| Busy: 0:00 |
|
| Busy:
No |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2-> 456
3-> 555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
0 seconds
Active (Greeting) Indicates whether the standard or alternate greeting is currently active. Type
s for standard greeting, or a for alternate
greeting.
Busy (Greeting) Accesses the recording for the
greeting that plays when the subscribers extension is busy. Type y to activate the busy greeting. Type n to deactivate the busy greeting. If
recorded and callers hear the default busy greeting.
Action Accepts the letter for the action you want
the voice messaging system to take after recording a message.

to Take a message.
Take a message.
message.

good-bye.

message as urgent.

greeting box.


After msg Accepts the same values as the

Action field. The value determines the action
taken after recording a callers message.
295
Setting up one-key dialing
can route callers quickly to directory assistance, subscribers extensions, transaction
boxes, voice detect boxes, language select
boxes, or interview boxes.
To set up one-key dialing

Personal Directory.

system IDs for the keys you want to use.
One-key dialing can be used with the language select box, opening greeting box,
transaction boxes, and directory menus.
When it is set up on the Expanded Transfer
Options screen, you can program a menu of
choices which a subscriber can offer in the
personal greeting.

296

2 and press ENTER.
This setting creates a 1- or 2-second
pause that lets callers bypass the onekey options and enter system IDs.
6 Tell the subscriber to rerecord his or her

greeting to describe the menu of options
to callers.
SETTING UP ONE-KEY DIALING

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
T R A N S F E R
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
| Std: 0:00 | Take-msg SERVICES
| Busy: 0:00 |
|
| Busy:
No |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2-> 456
3-> 555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
2 seconds

callers to when they enter a digit. The voice messaging system listens for one-key dialing entries
prompt.
you want the voice messaging system to wait
before taking action.

to take if no touchtones are pressed during the
greeting:
H (Hang up)
good-bye.

greeting box.
297
Setting up message notification
The voice messaging system uses message

indication and message delivery to let subscribers know that messages are waiting for
them. You control message indication and
delivery settings for each subscriber from
their personal subscriber page.
Message indication
The voice messaging system indicates when
messages are waiting by an indication light
on the phone, a distinctive dial tone (such
as a stutter tone), or a message display that
alerts the subscriber.
There are two parts to setting up message
indication. First, perform the procedure
To activate message waiting indication,
on page 299, to activate message waiting
indication. The rest of the sequence is set
up on line 10 of Switch Setup screen page 2,
described in the topic Changing message
waiting indicator and touchtone settings
on page 456.
Message delivery
With message delivery, a subscriber need
not think about messages until the voice
messaging system calls and announces that
messages are waiting. Message delivery can
only be activated if message notification is
set up for the subscriber.
From the Subscriber screen, you can specify
a work and home number that the system
automatically dials to notify a subscriber of
a waiting message. You can also specify the
frequency of these calls and whether the
system notifies the subscriber of all messages or only urgent messages. To activate
message delivery, perform the procedure
To activate message delivery on page 300.
298
SETTING UP MESSAGE NOTIFICATION
To activate message waiting indication

Personal Directory.
3 In the Activate lamps? field, type y

and press ENTER.
2 In the Lamp # field, type x for the

subscribers extension ID, and press
ENTER.
4 Refer to the procedures described in the

topic Changing message waiting indicator and touchtone settings on
page 456 to complete activating message waiting indication.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696

Lamp on now? Indicates whether the message

waiting indicator is currently on.
Activate lamps? Accepts a value for activating

or deactivating message waiting indicators. Type
y to turn on the message waiting indicators. Otherwise, type n.
Continued
299
To activate message delivery

Personal Directory.
2 Under Message Notification, in the #1
(work phone) field, type the phone number that you want the system to dial and
press ENTER.
3 In the After field, type the number of
minutes the system waits before delivering a message after it arrives.
and days when this schedule is
applicable.
300

rings that the system waits for an answer
before delivering the message.
of minutes that the system waits before
retrying a message delivery number.
7 In the Method field, indicate the message delivery method.
8 To activate message delivery for the
home phone, repeat steps 2 through 7
using the #2 field.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696

extension to dial.
#2 (Home phone) Accepts the home phone
number to dial.
messaging system tries to deliver new messages
only to Phone 1. After 60 minutes, it tries to deliver
new messages to both phones.
Interval (min) Accepts the number of minutes

that the voice messaging system waits after an
unsuccessful message delivery before retrying the
message delivery number. An attempt is unsuccessful when the delivery number is busy, unanswered, answered by a person who does not enter
a personal ID, or answered by an answering
machine.
is no delivery delay available with this method.

represents Sunday.

retrying this number. With this method, the
system delivers messages no more frequently
than the interval scheduled.
Rings Accepts the number of rings that the

voice messaging system waits for an answer when
attempting message delivery to the
phone number.

arrives.
O (Off)
301
Setting up voice and fax delivery

notification options
You can specify additional notification settings from the Expanded Notification
Options screen.
Message notification
In addition to notifying subscribers of new
messages at home and at work, you can
have the voice messaging system page subscribers or call them at another phone number.
Fax notification
In addition to voice messages, the voice
messaging system can notify subscribers of
new faxes and deliver a fax message to a
specific fax machine at a scheduled time.
To set up additional notification options
1 Go to the subscribers page in the Personal Directory, and press CTRL+E.

select Notification and press ENTER.
3 Confirm that the Lamp # field is set to
x and the Activate lamps? field is set
to Yes.
4 On lines #1 and #2 in the Voice delivery
section, confirm that a schedule is complete for the work and home phone
numbers.
5 On lines #3 and/or #4 in the Voice delivery section, type the schedule information for a pager, a spare phone, or both.
NOTE
If you are using cut-through paging, do
not specify notification options in line
#3.
Phones to notify for fax field.
7 In the Fax delivery section, type the
phone number and schedule information.
See also
Setting up message notification ............. 298
Enabling callers to send cut-through
pages ..................................................... 476
302
SETTING UP VOICE AND FAX DELIVERY NOTIFICATION OPTIONS

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Lamp-------------------------------------------------------------------------Lamp #: X
-Voice delivery--------------------------------------------------------------#1: X
after 0
4 rings 30
min,Batch
#2: 444-4444 after 0
min, 6:00pm- 9:00pm MTWHF
5 rings 60
min,Off
#3: 555-5555 after 0
min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU 4 rings 30
min,Off
#4: 666-6666 after 0
min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU 1 rings 60
min,Urgent
-Fax delivery----------------------------------------------------------------# : 222-2222 after 0
30
min,Off

Activate lamps? Type y to turn on the message waiting indicators. Otherwise, type n.
On now? Indicates whether the message waiting indicator is currently on. This field is read-only.
extension to dial.
#2 (Home phone) Accepts the home phone
number to dial.
#3 (Pager phone) Accepts the pager phone
number to dial. If you are using cut-through paging, do not specify other notification numbers in
this line.
#4 (Spare phone) Accepts the spare phone
number or extension to dial.
messaging system tries to deliver new messages
only to Phone 1. After 60 minutes, it tries to deliver
new messages to both phones.

represents Sunday.
Rings Accepts the number of rings that the
voice messaging system waits for an answer when
number.
Interval (min) Accepts the number of minutes
the voice messaging system waits after an unsuccessful message delivery before retrying the message delivery number. An attempt is unsuccessful
when the delivery number is busy, unanswered,
Continued
303
SETTING UP VOICE AND FAX DELIVERY NOTIFICATION OPTIONS

step each time a new message arrives.
retrying this number.
arrives.
O (Off) Turns off message delivery.
304
Phones to notify for fax Specifies which phone

numbers the system calls to notify the subscriber
when a new fax message arrives. Type a single
number (1), a list of numbers separated by commas (1, 3), or a range of numbers separated by a
hyphen (1-4).
Fax delivery Accepts the extension or phone
number to dial to deliver a message to a fax phone
number. Use only DTMF digits and acceptable
special characters for fax phone numbers.
Adding a subscriber fax box
ActiveFax lets callers leave fax messages in a

mailbox, just as they can leave voice messages in a voice mailbox.
You can set up a personal fax box for each
subscriber. How you assign fax boxes to
subscribers depends on whether you purchased ActiveFax with your voice messaging system or added it later.
If you purchased ActiveFax with your

voice messaging system, the system
automatically creates fax boxes for all
subscribers you add to the system.
If you added ActiveFax to an existing

system, the system automatically creates fax boxes for any new subscribers
you add to the system. You must manually add fax boxes for existing subscribers.
ActiveFax lets you customize or change any

of the fax mail options for individual fax
boxes. For example, you can set up singleextension access for an individuals fax and
voice messages, or you can use special-purpose fax boxes for collecting rsums or
survey information.
ActiveFax attaches a fax mail cover sheet to
every fax delivery. You can customize the
cover sheet to include your companys logo
or more detailed delivery information.
To add a personal fax box for a subscriber

Personal Directory and press F8.
2 From the Add menu, select Fax box
and press ENTER.
3 To accept the default fax ID, press
ENTER. Or, type a different fax ID.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCB
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy: 0:00 |
#1: X
after 0
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60 min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696
Fax ID Accepts the subscribers system ID to

identify a personal fax box (only for voice messaging systems with the ActiveFax package). Callers
dial this number to send faxes directly to the
subscriber.
305
Customizing fax delivery options
A subscribers personal fax mail settings can

be changed from the system defaults to
accommodate individual preferences.
Some subscribers may want automatic fax
delivery to a specified fax machine. Other
subscribers may want to choose the delivery location individually for each fax. Subscribers can also ask callers to leave a voice
annotation with their fax.
Fax mail delivery options
Some common default fax mail delivery
options include:
The system can deliver faxes to a fax

machine immediately upon arrival,
without notifying subscribers.
The system can notify subscribers that

they have received fax mail, but the faxes
remain in the fax box until the subscriber requests delivery.
The system can announce new faxes to

subscribers, even if the caller did not
leave a voice annotation.
Callers can leave a voice annotation with

a fax, and edit or review this annotation
before sending the fax.
See also
Adding a subscriber fax box .................... 305
306
System actions when there is no fax

port available
From the Expanded Fax Options screen, you
can specify the action that you want the
voice messaging system to take when there
is no fax port available. For example, you
can have the caller hold, leave a message, or
be routed to another system ID.
For automatic fax delivery, in addition to
setting the fields on the Expanded Fax
Options screen, also set the correct fax
number and schedule on the Expanded
Notification Options screen.
If the Announce even if no voice? field is
set to No and no fax delivery schedule is
specified, the system will neither announce
nor deliver the fax.
Making recordings for the fax box

In the Greeting field, the subscriber can
record a greeting for their personal fax box.
This is the recording a caller hears when
attempting to send a fax to the subscriber.
The owner of the fax box can use a phone or
a local connection to record a greeting.
The Fax intro field contains the recording
a caller hears immediately before the voice
messaging system transfers the call to an
available fax port. The subscriber cannot
record this greeting by phone. The system
manager can record it using a local connection to the voice messaging system.
CUSTOMIZING FAX DELIVERY OPTIONS

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
F A X
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Fax ID: 39696
-->Voice annotation-------------------->Fax ---------------------------------Greeting: 0:00
| Fax intro: 0:00
Ask for voice? No
Max-msg 0
| No fax available: GotoID--> $NOFAX
Edits OK? Yes
| After msg/hold: Say-Bye
|
Announce even if no voice? No
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Continued
307
To set up voice annotations and voice

announcement

Personal Directory.
voice? field, type y and press ENTER.
the callers annotation, and press
ENTER.
edit their annotation, and press ENTER.
press ENTER.
308

Personal Directory.
voice? field, type n and press ENTER.
press ENTER.
ENTER.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
F A X
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Fax ID: 39696
| Fax intro: 0:00
Ask for voice? Yes
Max-msg 0
Edits OK? Yes
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Greeting Contains the greeting for a subscribers personal fax box. This is the recording a
caller hears when attempting to send a fax to the
subscriber. The owner of the fax box can use a
phone or a local connection to record a greeting.
Edits OK? Accepts y or n to let callers to

edit or rerecord their voice annotations.
Announce even if no voice? Accepts y or n
to specify that the subscriber be notified of each
for a fax message.
Continued
309
To set up system actions when there is no fax port available

Personal Directory

should be routed in the field to the
right of GotoID--> and press
ENTER.

action in the After msg/hold field
and press ENTER.

3 Under Fax, in the No fax available
field, type the appropriate action and
press ENTER.
310

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
F A X
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Fax ID: 39696
| Fax intro: 0:00
Ask for voice? No
Max-msg 0
Edits OK? Yes
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Fax intro Contains the recording a caller hears

immediately before the system transfers the call
to an available fax port.
No fax available Determines the voice messaging systems response when no fax port is available to receive the fax.
F (Fax hold) Allows the caller to hold for a fax
port. Voice detect call holding is not available.
T (Take a message) Instructs the voice messaging system to record a message.
saying good-bye.
operator box.

or chooses not to remain on hold any longer. Set
this field only when the No fax available field is
set to either Take a message or Fax hold.
saying good-bye.
operator box.
disconnects.
then disconnects.
311
Changing access options
Access codes control subscriber access to

certain system features. The access codes P,
M, C, B, and F are the default codes and
appear in the Access field on the Subscriber screen (unless they have been modified on Application screen page 7).
You can customize the systems access
options to meet the needs of the subscriber.
The access codes that you select determine
how the subscriber interacts with the voice
messaging system. You can change the
access codes for individual subscribers.
312
To change subscriber access codes
1 Go to the subscribers page in the Personal Directory and press CTRL+E.

select Access codes and press ENTER.
3 On the Access Code Options screen, to
clear or select a checkbox, tab to the
checkbox and press the SPACEBAR.
4 To add or remove additional access
codes, repeat step 3.
CHANGING ACCESS OPTIONS

Name:
Personal ID:
Extension # ID:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
A C
[ ]
[*]
[*]
[ ]
[ ]
[*]
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[ ]
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[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
Press
P E R S O N A L
Yale, Hugh
9892
892
C E S S
C O D E
No setup options
No rec't summary
No public notify
Not in directory
Messages by ext
First-time enroll
Can't edit greet
Unused
Can't edit to sub
No address to many
Can edit holding
Message length
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT

Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
O P T I O N S
M [*] Menu mode
N [ ] Hands-free play
O [ ] No old messages
P [*] No public message
Q [ ] No urgent message
R [ ] Can't redirect
S [ ] Can't send message
T [ ] Traditional order
U [ ] Not to subscribers
V [ ] No private message
W [ ] No future delivery
X [ ] No receipt request
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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Press ESC to Exit

No open groups
Automatic receipts
Can't send remote
No remote urgent
Remote open receipt
E-mail access
No e-mail total
Ask e-mail password
Voice to e-mail
Fax to e-mail
E-mail cross notify
TAB or Shift-TAB to move; press SPACE to add or remove a code.
A No setup options Restricts a subscriber from

changing setup options by phone, including personal greetings, message groups, call transfer,
message delivery, recorded name, spelled name,
security code, and directory listing.
B No rect summary The subscriber does not
get a summary when all messages have been
heard.
C No public notify The system does not notify
a subscriber when a public message is received.
Choose c for subscribers who have public message access and want their message waiting
lamps lit, or who want notification sent only for
messages sent specifically to them.
D Not in directory Excludes a subscriber from
automatic (alphabetic) directory assistance.
E Messages by ext Lets subscribers send messages by using the extension number of the recipient, instead of the first three letters of the last
name.
F First-time enroll Directs subscribers to enroll
themselves by phone the next time they call the
system. The system does not try to deliver messages to a subscriber with the F access code until
they have enrolled.
G Cant edit greet Restricts subscribers from
changing their personal greetings.
I Cant edit to sub The subscriber cannot add
to, listen to, or rerecord a message to
another subscriber.
J No address to many The subscriber cannot
address a message to more than one person at a
time.
Continued
313
K Can edit holding The subscriber can change

his or her own call holding by phone.
L Message length The voice messaging system
announces how long messages last; for example,
You have three new messages totaling 3 minutes,
20 seconds. Would you like to hear them?.
M Menu mode The subscriber hears the menu
conversation instead of the Yes-and-No conversation.
N Hands-free play The subscriber can retrieve
messages without entering digits because the system does not ask Would you like to hear them?
between message lists. Use only if the phone system has an immediate disconnect feature.
T Traditional order The subscriber hears the

Yes-and-No conversation in this order: check new
messages, leave messages, change greetings, and
review old messages. Subscribers with touchtone
phones press # twice for setup options other than
greetings.
U Not to subscribers The subscriber cannot
send messages to other subscribers, only to his or
her guests and message groups.
V No private message The subscriber cannot
mark messages as private; any message the subscriber sends can be redirected by the recipient.
W No future delivery The subscriber cannot
mark messages for future delivery.
O No old messages The subscriber cannot

review old messages.
X No receipt request The subscriber cannot

mark messages for explicit return receipt.
P No public message The subscriber cannot

access public messages.
Y No open groups The subscriber cannot

create open message groups or send messages to
open message groups.
Q No urgent message The subscriber cannot

mark messages urgent.
R Cant redirect The subscriber cannot redirect
messages he or she has received.
S Cant send message The subscriber cannot
send messages to subscribers, guests, or groups.
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Z Automatic receipts Marks every message

sent by the subscriber for return receipt. To avoid
redundant receipts and summary announcements,
always use Z with B.
1 Cant send remote Controls the subscribers

ability to send messages to subscribers and message groups at remote sites. This access code can
be used only on voice messaging systems with
The package lets two or more voice messaging
systems transmit messages from one system site
to another.
2 No remote urgent Controls the subscribers
ability to send urgent messages outside the message delivery schedule to subscribers and message groups at remote sites. This access code is
used only on voice messaging systems with
The package lets two or more voice messaging
systems transmit messages from one system site
to another.
3 Remote open receipt Controls whether the
voice messaging system announces when a recipient at a remote site first listened to each message. Otherwise, the system announces when the
message was transmitted. This access code is
used only on systems with optional network messaging package software. The package lets two or
more voice messaging systems transmit messages
from one system site to another.
4 E-mail access Lets a subscriber hear about email messages by phone through the optional EMail Integration package.
5 No e-mail total Prevents a subscriber from
hearing about e-mail messages by phone through
the optional E-Mail Integration package. E-mail
messages will not be included in new or old message totals. However, the subscriber can hear email messages by phone by entering 4 6 (hear new
messages) and 6 6 (hear old messages). The subscriber can change this access code by phone
using setup options. This option applies only to
Lotus cc:mail and Groupwise, not ViewMail for
Microsoft Messaging.
6 Ask e-mail password Controls whether a subscriber must enter an e-mail password before listening to e-mail messages by phone when using
the optional E-Mail Integration package. The subscriber still hears a count of e-mail messages without entering the e-mail password. This option
Messaging.
7 Voice to e-mail Lets a subscriber automatically forward voice messages from the voice message stack to the e-mail inbox when using the
optional E-Mail Integration package. Always use
this access code with access code 4. Do not use
this access code with access code 9. This option
Messaging.
8 Fax to e-mail Lets a subscriber automatically
forward fax mail from the voice message stack to
the e-mail inbox when using the optional E-Mail
Integration package. This option applies only to
9 E-mail cross notify Lets a subscriber receive
notification by e-mail of new voice and fax mail
when using the optional E-Mail Integration package. Do not use this access code with access code
7. This option applies only to Lotus cc:Mail and
Groupwise e-mail integrations, not to ViewMail for
Microsoft Messaging.
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Enrolling a subscriber
There are two ways to enroll subscribers:
You can enroll them at the console by

entering their names in the appropriate
field on the Subscriber screen.
Subscribers can self-enroll. This method

requires that you add a range of subscriber mailboxes with F-code access.
This access code directs subscribers to
enroll themselves by phone when they
first call the system. See the following
procedure, To allow a subscriber to selfenroll.
When you enroll subscribers, as the system

manager, you may want to perform the following tasks after general enrollment is
completed:
Delete any unused subscriber mailboxes.
Go through the Personal Directory in ID

Sort order and type the full name for
each subscriber.
See also
Adding new subscribers .......................... 278
Changing access options......................... 312
316
To allow a subscriber to self-enroll

2 In the Access field, type f (First-time
enroll) and press ENTER.
ENROLLING A SUBSCRIBER

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
Access: PCBF
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
| Busy:0:00
|
#1: X
after 0
5 rings 30
min,Batch
#2:
after 0
4 rings 60
min,Off
--Fax mail-------------------------------------------------------------------Fax ID: 39696
Access Accepts the access codes you want to

use. Type f (First-time enroll) to allow a subscriber to self-enroll.
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Setting up e-mail options
Use the Expanded E-Mail Options screen to

give a subscriber e-mail access. Subscribers
can hear about new e-mail messages
through the voice messaging system, or, by
using the optional E-Mail Integration package, subscribers can listen to e-mail messages from any touchtone phone.
To set up e-mail for a post office account

2 Press CTRL+E and type e to open the
Expanded E-Mail Options screen.
3 In the E-mail name field, type the email name for the subscriber.
4 In the E-mail post office field, type the
name of the e-mail programs post office.
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SETTING UP E-MAIL OPTIONS

Name:
Personal ID:
Extension # ID:
E X P A N D E D
P E R S O N A L
Yale, Hugh
9892
892
E - M A I L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT

Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
E-mail name: hyale

E-mail post office: ADMIN
E-mail name Accepts the e-mail name, or the

ID, of a subscriber who can then hear e-mail messages through the voice messaging system.
E-mail post office Accepts the name of the

e-mail programs post office, such as ADMIN.
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Setting up live record options
Live record, available with certain DTMF

(dual-tone multi-frequency) phone system
integrations and ViewMail, gives subscribers the option of recording phone conversations. A subscriber can keep this recording
for later reference or redirect it to another
subscriber or group of subscribers. For
example, a receptionist can record phone
conversations and direct them to appropriate subscribers.
Local laws may require a periodic beep
while a conversation is being recorded. The
phone system provides this beep. (See the
Caution on this page.)
If you are using DTMF live record over the
phone without ViewMail, the technician
programs the phone system to enable live
record on subscribers phones. Subscribers
begin their live record session by using a
programmed button on their phone, and
stop recording by hanging up or by pressing
any touchtone. The recording is stored in
the subscribers voice mailbox.
With ViewMail installed, subscribers have
additional options for managing their live
record sessions. For details, see the topic
Recording a conversation in the User
Guide. As system manager, using the Live
Record Options screen, you can enable or
disable live record for each subscriber, specify the maximum length of a recording, and
specify the extensions at which an individSee also
Installation Guide: Setting up live record,
in Chapter 6
320
ual subscriber can record and specify the

maximum length of a recording. If a subscriber can record at more than one extension, the list of extensions appears as a
selection box when the subscriber begins a
recording.
NOTES
In the Live record extensions for ViewMail field, you can type a range of numbers if you want the subscriber to be able
to record at several sequentially numbered extensions, for example, type
201-211.
When a live record conversation is initiated from a redirected extension, the

system sends the recorded conversation
to the mailbox of the called extension,
rather than the redirected extension.
CAUTION The use of monitoring, recording,

or listening devices to eavesdrop, monitor,
retrieve, or record phone conversations or
other sound activities, whether or not contemporaneous with transmission, may be
illegal in certain circumstances under federal or state laws. Legal advice should be
sought prior to implementing any practice
that monitors or records any phone conversation. Some federal and state laws require
some form of notification to all parties to a
phone conversation, such as using a beep
tone or other notification methods or
requiring the consent of all parties to the
phone conversation, prior to monitoring or
recording the phone conversation. Some of
these laws incorporate strict penalties.
SETTING UP LIVE RECORD OPTIONS
4 In the Live record maximum record

time field, enter the time in seconds.
2 Press CTRL+E and type l to open the

Live Record Options screen.
5 In the Live record extensions for ViewMail field, type x to use the subscribers extension.
3 In the Live record? field, type y.

Name:
Personal ID:
Extension # ID:
L I V E
P E R S O N A L
Yale, Hugh
9892
892
R E C O R D
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT

Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Live record?: YES

Live record maximum record time: 60
Live record extensions for ViewMail: X
Live record? Enables subscribers to record

calls. Type y to activate call recording. Type n
to disable call recording. Guests cannot record
calls.
Live record maximum record time Accepts
the maximum length, in seconds, of a live record
session. The maximum value is 6000 seconds.
When a live record session reaches the maximum
record time, the subscriber hears three short
beeps.
Live record extensions for ViewMail Accepts

the extensions on which a subscriber can record
calls. To allow subscribers to record calls on their
own extensions, type x in this field. Or, type a
range of extensions, such as 201-211.
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Adding guests
Some subscribers may wish to provide a

more personal interface through the voice
messaging system for special clients, contacts, friends, or family. Rather than be
treated as just another caller, they can be
greeted by name and given direct access to
exchange messages with a particular
subscriber.
Such people are enrolled on the system as
guests of a subscriber. A guest is assigned to
a particular subscriber, and can trade messages with the host subscriber.
To add a guest

2 From the Add menu, select Guest and
press ENTER.
3 In the dialog box that opens, type y to
confirm that you want to add a guest.
4 Enter the personal ID for the guest.
5 Enter the guests last name.
Guests are limited to leaving messages for

their host. If a guest wants to leave a message for another subscriber or try an extension, the guest must do so as a caller. In
addition, guests cannot change their voice
name or notification options over the
phone. These must be set by the system
manager at the console.
6 Enter the guests first and middle names.
You set up the voice name, language, and

message notification for a guest in the same
way as for a subscriber. See the appropriate
sections in this chapter for more information.
To delete a guest or a guests messages
The personal directory page for the

guest appears with this information
entered.
7 In the Send msg urgent? field, type the
appropriate value.
1 Go to the guests page in the Personal

Directory and press F7.
2 From the Delete menu, select Guest or
Only messages and press ENTER.
3 When the voice messaging system
prompts you for confirmation, press
ENTER.
See also
Assigning a language ............................... 282
322
ADDING GUESTS
Personal Directory, Guest screen

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Larson, Les
Guest of...... Simmons, Sandy
Personal ID: 9555
Send msg urgent? No
New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------Message notification------------------------------#1: X
#2: 622-3333
#3:
#4:
after
after
after
after
0
0
0
0
min,
min,
min,
min,
8:00am- 6:00pm
6:00pm- 9:00pm
12:00am-11:59pm
12:00am-11:59pm
Name Accepts the guest's name. Type <last

name>, <first name> if you want to sort
guests by their last names.
Personal ID Accepts the guests personal ID.
MTWHF
MTWHF
MTWHFSU
MTWHF
5
4
4
4
rings
min,Batch
rings 60 min,Off
rings
min,Off
rings 6 min,Urgent
Send msg urgent? Indicates whether to allow

messages to be marked as urgent. Type one of
the following in this field:
Y (Yes) Sets the voice messaging system to
mark every message from this guest to the
host as urgent.
ask the guest whether to mark a message as
urgent.
N (No) Prevents guests from marking messages as urgent.
323
324
C H A P T E R 1 3
Groups
Groups overview .............................................. 326
Creating and changing local

access groups .................................................. 336
Using the All Subscribers group ..................... 328

Numeric directory assistance overview ......... 337
Creating and deleting message groups ........ 329
Directory groups.............................................. 338
Changing the owner of an
open message group ...................................... 331
Directory menus .............................................. 340
Renaming message groups created

by phone........................................................... 332
Creating directory groups or

directory menus............................................... 342
Assigning dispatch distribution ..................... 333
Deleting directory groups or

directory menus............................................... 344
Setting up outside caller group

messaging ........................................................ 334
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Groups overview
At the Groups screen, you set up message

groups, directory groups, and directory
menus. Although message groups and
directory groups serve different purposes,
each involves grouping subscribers in ways
that make voice messaging work more conveniently and efficiently.
Message groups
Message groups provide a convenient way
to deliver the same message to several subscribers at once. When you send a message
to a message group, it is available to all subscribers listed as members of that group. As
system manager, you can create and maintain message groups at the system console
by accessing the Groups screen. Subscribers
can create and maintain their own message
groups from any touchtone phone by
accessing their setup options. Guests cannot create or send messages to message
groups.
326
Directory groups
Directory groups are used in setting up
numeric directory assistance, where callers
can locate a subscribers extension by pressing numbers to move through a directory of
subscribers. You group subscribers by a
common characteristic, such as being in the
same department or location. Then you create a menu of choices that assigns a single
touchtone to each directory grouping, and
add the directory groups to the directory
menu to create one-key dialing menus.
When a caller requests numeric directory
assistance, the system plays the names of
subscribers in the directory group along
with their extensions.
You may want to have both a message group
and a directory group for some departments or sets of subscribers. The message
group lets you send the same message to
the subscribers, while the directory group
lets the system list the subscribers in the
same place in numeric directory assistance.
GROUPS OVERVIEW
Groups screen
G R O U P S
Name: All Sales Staff
Open Group of
Aaronson, Chris
Dispatch: No
Voice name: 0:02
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Member name
Last contacted
| Member name
Last contacted
-------------------|------------------|--------------------|-----------------Xavier, Jan
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Yale, Hugh
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Yeoman, Mike
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Ying, Sue
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Zanter, Pat
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Zeller, Nell
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Zink, Jay
11-Jan-02 11:17am |
|
|
|
|
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Using the All Subscribers group
The All Subscribers group enables a subscriber to send messages to all subscribers.
This message group consists of all enrolled
subscribers. Every voice messaging system
has this message group installed, and subscribers are automatically added to the
group when their names are entered in the
system.
There are two ways the system manager can
remove subscribers from this group:
Remove the subscriber name from the

system
Delete the subscriber name from the

group
Subscribers are automatically removed

from this group when they are deleted from
the system. It is also possible to open the All
Subscribers group page and delete the subscriber name. However, when the All Subscriber group is deleted or renamed, the
system automatically recreates the group
(with all enrolled subscribers) when it
restarts.
See also
Creating and deleting message groups ....329
328
To send a message to the All Subscribers group
1 Log on to the voice messaging system as

a subscriber.
2 When prompted by the system, enter the
first three letters of the All Subscribers
group name.
Creating and deleting message groups
Every message group has an ownereither

the subscriber who creates the group by
phone or the subscriber who is assigned as
the groups owner by the system manager. A
system manager can be a group owner too.
Only the owner of a group can make
changes to the group, including adding and
deleting message groups or their members.
Some groups are owned by the voice messaging system instead of by a subscriber or
system manager. Groups owned by the system can be changed only at the console, not
by phone. However, the system manager
can reassign a group owned by the system
to a new owner to let that person change
the group by phone.
You can create two kinds of message
groupsprivate and open. The only person
who can send messages to a private group
is the groups owner. Group members can
hear a private group message but cannot
send messages to a private group.
In contrast, all subscribers on the system
can send messages to open groups. A subscriber does not have to be a member of the
group to send messages to an open group.
However, the system manager can restrict
any subscriber from creating and sending
messages to open groups, by entering the
appropriate access code on the subscribers
See also
messaging ........................................... 334
menus ....................................................... 342
To create a private or open message group
1 Press CTRL+G to go to the Groups

screen. Press PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN
to scroll to the message group you want.
2 Press F8.
3 From the Add menu, select Private
group or Open group and press
ENTER.
4 In the dialog box that appears, type the
group name (or group number, if you
are using numeric groups) and press
ENTER.
If you plan to use the group for outside
caller group messaging, do not include
any numbers or spaces in the group
name, or have it be longer than 10 characters.
5 Assign an owner for the group. Type y
to accept the system manager as the
group owner, or type n to enter
another subscriber as the owner. A
group screen showing the name of the
group you created appears.
6 On the Groups screen, in the Voice
name field, record a name for the
group. See Making a recording on
page 428 for details on how to record a
voice name.
Continued
CHAPTER 13: GROUPS
329
CREATING AND DELETING MESSAGE GROUPS
To add subscribers to the group
To delete a message group or its messages


2 Press F8.
2 Move the cursor to the top of the screen

and press F7.
3 From the Add menu, select Member

and press ENTER.
4 Type the first few letters of the subscribers last name, and press ENTER.
The system displays the name of the first
subscriber whose last name matches the
letters you typed.
5 Type y to select the name or n to
view the next subscriber whose name
matches the letters you typed. When the
name of the subscriber you want to add
to the group is displayed, type y.
6 The system will present you with the
next subscriber name in the system.
Type y to accept this name, n to view
the next name, or ESC to exit the Add
menu.
330
3 From the Delete menu, select one of the

following options: Group and messages, Delete group, or All messages, and press ENTER.
To remove subscribers from a message group

2 Select the name of the subscriber to be
removed and press F7.
Changing the owner of an open message group
At the console, you can delete the owner of

an open group so that the group is owned
by SYSTEM. This removes the subscriber
as owner of the group, but does not delete
the subscriber from the system. You can
also reassign a group owned by SYSTEM
to another subscriber.
To remove the owner of an open message group

2 If a subscriber (instead of the voice messaging system) owns the open message
group, press F7.
3 From the Delete menu, select Owner
and press ENTER.
4 Type y to confirm. The voice messaging system (SYSTEM) is automatically
assigned as the new owner.
To assign a new owner to an open message

group

2 Move the cursor to the top portion of the
screen and press F8.
3 From the Add menu, select New
owner and press ENTER. By default, the
voice messaging system asks to make
the system manager the new owner.
4 If you want the system manager to be
the owner of the open message group,
type y and press ENTER. Otherwise,
type n, then type the last name of the
new owner, and press ENTER.
5 Press ENTER to confirm.
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Renaming message groups created by phone
When a subscriber creates a message group

by phone, the subscriber presses three keys
to create the groups spelled name or number. The system displays these three keys in
the Name field of the group on the Groups
screen. The subscriber also records the full
name of the group.
If you will be changing message groups at
the voice messaging system console frequently, you may want to listen to the
recorded full name of any open groups created by phone, and then type a more complete name in the Name field. This makes
it easier to find the group on the Groups
screen later.
If you want to determine which groups are
currently in the voice messaging system,
create a directory report. See Using directory information on page 492 for more
information.
332
To rename message groups

2 Type the new name in the Name field.
3 If you change the first three characters of
the group name, notify the group owner
and members so they can still select the
group by phone.
Assigning dispatch distribution
By default, all group members receive every

message directed to that group. This is
called broadcast distribution.
However, there may be some cases where it
is only necessary for one person in the
group to receive a message. For example,
the manager of a customer service department might need to send a message about a
customer problem to a group of service representatives. It does not matter who gets the
message and handles the problem, as long
as someone in the department does.
With dispatch distribution, the first group

member to listen to a group message is the
only one who receives it. Once this subscriber hears all of the message, the system
removes the message from the other group
members voice mailboxes.
You can assign dispatch distribution for a
message group only at the console.
To assign dispatch distribution

2 In the Dispatch field, type y and
press ENTER.
Groups screen
G R O U P S
Name: All Sales Staff
Open Group of
Aaronson, Chris
Dispatch: No
Voice name: 0:02
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Member name
Last contacted
| Member name
Last contacted
-------------------|------------------|--------------------|-----------------Xavier, Jan
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Yale, Hugh
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Yeoman, Mike
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Ying, Sue
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Zanter, Pat
11-Jan-02 11:17am | Zeller, Nell
11-Jan-02 11:17am
Zink, Jay
11-Jan-02 11:17am |
|
|
|
|
|
Dispatch Indicates the distribution method for

messages sent to this group. When set to Yes
(dispatch distribution), only the first group member to listen to a message receives it. When set to
No (broadcast distribution), all members of a
group hear the message when they listen to messages.
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333
Setting up outside caller group messaging
Messages from external callers can be

routed to groups from a personal mailbox,
interview box, or transaction box. For
example, a call to Technical Support can be
routed to the entire Technical Support
group. If dispatch messaging were used, the
message would be delivered when the first
member of the group checked voice mail,
and no one else in the group would hear the
message.
See also
Assigning dispatch distribution.............. 333
Setting up an interview box..................... 368
334
Outside caller group messages are usually

routed to open groups. If you want to route
an outside caller group message to a private
group from a transaction box, the owner of
the private group must also be the owner of
the transaction box.
Outside caller group messaging cannot be
implemented in fax boxes or directly from
one-key dialing fields.
SETTING UP OUTSIDE CALLER GROUP MESSAGING
To set up group messaging for a transaction box or personal mailbox
1 Create the group you want callers sent

to. See Creating and deleting message
groups on page 329. The group name
must be no more than 10 characters,
cannot contain spaces, and must be
unique.
2 Go to the transaction box or personal
mailbox in which callers will leave messages.
3 In the Action section of the Transaction
Box or Subscriber screen, in the Day or
Night field, type t (Take a message)
and press ENTER.
4 In the unnamed field to the right of the

Take-msg setting, type the name of
the group. The name of the group cannot contain spaces or be longer than 10
characters.
5 In the Greeting section of the screen, go
to the Day or Night field and record
a greeting telling callers that their messages will be received by the group. For
details about recording a greeting, see
Making a recording on page 428.
6 Leave a test message for the transaction
box or personal mailbox, and confirm
that the group receives it.
Transaction Box screen

Name: Sales Box
System ID: 700
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes 134
| Day: 0:12 | Day: GotoId--> 0
Nite?
No
| Nite: 0:00 | Nite: Take-msg Sales
|
|
Await-Ans--> 4
90
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
| Active: D/N | Send msg urgent? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
| After msg: Say-bye <ID>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
seconds
Day or Night greeting Accesses the recording

for the day or night greeting.
Day or Night action For outside caller group

messaging, type t (Take a message) to record a
message for the group. Type the name of the
group in the field immediately to the right. The
name of the group cannot contain spaces or be
longer than 10 characters.
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Creating and changing local access groups
Local access groups are a group option provided with Multisite Messaging, also known
as ActiveNet. You can create a local access
group to enable a subscriber to simultaneously send one message to a group of
subscribers at local and remote sites.
Local site group members can send messages to the local access group but remote
site group members can only receive messages.
You can change open groups to local access
groups. However, when you change local
access groups to open groups, remote site
group members are deleted from the group.
To create a local access group

screen, and press F8.
2 From the Add menu, select Local access
group and press ENTER.
group name.
4 Assign local access group ownership.
To assign ownership to the system

manager, press ENTER.
To assign ownership to a subscriber,

type n, then type the subscribers
last name and press ENTER.
To assign ownership to the voice

messaging system (SYSTEM), type
n and press ENTER.
5 In the Voice name field, record a name

for the group. See Making a recording
on page 428 for details about recording a
voice name.
To change a group type
1 Go to the groups page on the Groups

screen and press F2.
2 From the Command menu, select Make
group open or Make group local
access, and press ENTER.
3 If you selected Make group open, type
y to confirm.
See also
Message groups and Multisite Messaging...218
336
Numeric directory assistance overview
Numeric directory assistance lets callers

press numbers instead of letters to look up
a subscribers extension. This is useful for
callers who do not have letters on their
phone keypads. Setting up numeric directory assistance involves grouping subscribers by a common characteristic and then
creating a menu of choices from which callers can select.
Callers can use the systems wildcard character to select a numbered message group.
For example, if the wildcard character is 1,
pressing 511 lists all message groups
starting with number 5. The specific wildcard keys vary for each voice messaging system. For information on determining or
changing your systems wildcard keys, see
Changing the keypad map in Chapter 6 of
the Installation Guide.
NOTE
Subscribers must have voice names
recorded and have an extension ID to be
available for numeric directory assistance.
The following list outlines the steps to set

up numeric directory assistance. See Creating directory groups or directory menus
on page 342 for the procedures for creating
directory groups, menus, and submenus.
Steps to set up numeric directory

assistance
1 Create directory groups and
submenus.
2 Assign subscribers to the directory
groups.
3 Add a directory menu.
This is the main directory menu for
numeric directory assistance.
4 Assign the directory groups and
submenus to the directory menu.
5 Rerecord the opening greeting.
When you rerecord the opening greeting, tell callers which system ID to enter
to reach the main directory menu. (This
is the system ID set up when you add a
directory menu.) Also tell callers how to
use numeric directory assistance once
they have reached the menu of choices.
See Making a recording on page 428.
6 If necessary, change the voice

prompt.
If you have arranged subscribers in
directory groups by any other category
than department, rerecord voice prompt
DR008.
See Making a recording on page 428.
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Directory groups
Directory groups are used in numeric directory assistance. Subscribers are divided into
directory groups by a common characteristic, such as being in the same department.
For example, a company might have three
directory groupsfor its sales, shipping,
and customer support departments. Subscribers can also be grouped by location,
work schedule, or other commonality.
Each directory group on the voice messaging system has its own page of the Groups
screen. To make it easier to tell the difference between the pages for message groups
and the pages for directory groups, the word
DIRECTORY appears at the upper right of
the Groups screen.
Setting up numeric directory assistance
requires special configuration at the system
console. You add directory menus and
directory groups at the Groups screen, and
then manually add subscribers to directory
groups.
Numeric directory assistance requires
ongoing maintenance as new subscribers or
groups are added to or deleted from the system. Subscribers themselves cannot change
their own listing in the numeric directory by
phone.
See also
menus ....................................................... 342
338
Directory groups differ from message

groups in the following ways:
You cannot leave a message for a directory group.
Every directory group is owned by the

system, as indicated at the upper right of
the screen.
A directory group can have its own system ID in the Directory ID field.
The list of directory group members

under Member name also includes the
members recorded name in the Voice
column, and extension ID in the Ext #
ID column. Each subscribers recorded
name and extension ID are added automatically when you add the subscriber
to the directory group.
DIRECTORY GROUPS
Groups screen, directory group

G R O U P S
Name: Sales
DIRECTORY Group of SYSTEM
Directory ID: 422
Voice name: 0:02
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Member name
Voice Ext # ID | Member name
Voice Ext # ID
--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------Xavier, Jan
0:01
9696
| Yale, Hugh
0:01
9688
Yeoman, Mike
0:01
9697
| Ying, Sue
0:01
9690
Zanter, Pat
0:01
9699
| Zeller, Nell
0:01
9692
Zink, Jay
0:01
9686
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Directory menus
Directory menus are used to create one-key

dialing menus automatically for numeric
directory assistance.
The system uses the entries under the Key
and Directory Name columns of the
Groups screen to create a one-key dialing
menu. The number in the Key column is the
touchtone assigned to the directory group
listed next to it.
See also
menus ....................................................... 342
340
Each directory menu is owned by the system, as indicated at the upper right of the
screen by the heading Directory menu of
SYSTEM.
A directory menu has its own system ID in
the Directory ID field at the top of the
screen. Outside callers can press this system
ID to hear this directory menu. You can also
use the system ID to route callers to this
directory menu automatically, by using the
GotoID--> field on a transaction box,
interview box, operator box, or public interview box screen, or on a subscribers personal directory page.
DIRECTORY MENUS
Groups screen, directory menu

G R O U P S
Name: Numeric Directory
Directory menu of SYSTEM
Directory ID: 422
Voice name: 0:01
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Key Directory name
Type
Voice
Dir ID
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Technical support
Dir Group
0:01
2. Sales
Dir Group
0:01
3. Shipping
Dir Group
0:01
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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Creating directory groups or directory menus
Create a directory group for each grouping

of subscribers to be listed in the numeric
directory. A directory group lists the subscribers who belong to each grouping, along
with their extension IDs. Use a local phone
connection to record a name for each directory group. Define who belongs in the directory group by adding subscribers to it.
Subscribers can be listed in more than one
directory group.
A directory menu lists the name of each
directory group or submenu. The system
automatically creates a one-key dialing
menu from the list of directory groups and
menus. Outside callers hear directory assistance for a particular directory group or
choose a submenu by pressing a single
touchtone key.
You can add up to eight directory groups or
directory menus.
To create a directory submenu, assign a
menu to another directory menu. Adding a
submenu involves the same steps as adding
a menu. You can assign up to eight directory
groups and submenus to each directory
menu.
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To add a directory group, menu, or submenu

2 From the Add menu, select Directory
assistance and press ENTER.
3 In the dialog box that opens, select
either Directory group or Directory
menu and press ENTER.
4 Type a name for the group or menu, and
press ENTER.
5 Type the system ID for the directory
group or menu.
NOTE
The voice messaging system ID lets callers access the menu when they enter the
ID, or routes callers to the menu automatically.
6 In the Voice name field, record a name
for the directory group or menu. You
must record a name in order for the
group or menu to be available from
numeric directory assistance. See Making a recording on page 428 for details
on recording a name.
CREATING DIRECTORY GROUPS OR DIRECTORY MENUS
To assign directory groups and submenus to a

directory menu

screen.
2 Press PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN to scroll
to the main directory menu page where
you want to add directory groups and
submenus.
3 Move the cursor to a blank Directory
name field, and press F8.
4 Type the first few characters of the directory group or submenu that you want to
add, and press ENTER. The system displays the first directory group or submenu that matches the letters you type.
NOTE
The directory group or submenu to be
added must already exist as an entry in
the voice messaging system.
To assign a subscriber to a directory group

screen.
to the directory group page of the
Groups screen. Press F8.
3 From the Add menu, select Member
and press ENTER.
first few characters of the subscribers
last name, and press ENTER. The system
displays the name of the first subscriber
whose last name matches the letters you
typed.
5 Type y to select and add the name, or
type n to see the next match, and press
ENTER.
6 Press ESC when all subscribers are
assigned.
5 Type y to select and add the name, or

type n to see the next match, and press
ENTER.
6 Press ESC when all directory groups or
submenus are added to the directory
menu.
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Deleting directory groups or directory menus
When you delete a directory group or directory submenu from the voice messaging
system, the system automatically removes it
from any directory menus that contain it.
Note that this could create a gap in a directory menu. For example, suppose an organization set up numeric directory assistance
with three directory groups. If the second
directory group were deleted, callers would
hear For sales, press 1. For Customer Service, press 3.
To delete a directory group or submenu from a
directory menu

screen.
to the directory menu page to be modified.
3 Move the cursor to the field of the directory group or submenu to be removed
from the directory menu and press F7.
4 Type y to confirm or n to cancel, and
press ENTER.
NOTE
This procedure does not completely
delete the group or submenu from the
system, just from the directory menu.
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To delete a directory group or menu from the

voice messaging system

screen.
to the directory group or menu page to
be deleted.
3 Move the cursor to the top of the screen
and press F7.
press ENTER.
To delete a subscriber from a directory group

screen.
to the directory group page that contains
the subscriber that you want to delete.
3 Move the cursor to the subscriber that
you want to delete and press F7.
press ENTER.
C H A P T E R 1 4
Transaction
boxes
Transaction Directory overview ...................... 346
Using special-purpose fax boxes ................... 363
Adding and removing transaction

boxes................................................................. 348
Setting up an interview box............................ 368

Public interview box overview ........................ 372
Setting up call transfer..................................... 352

Voice detect box overview ............................. 374
Setting up greetings ........................................ 355
Setting up a voice detect box ........................ 376
Setting up actions after greetings .................. 357
Creating a delete-proof transaction box ....... 359
Using a voice detect box to limit

phantom calls to the operator........................ 379
Sorting the transaction directory .................... 360
Language select box overview....................... 382
Routing callers from a transaction box

using one-key dialing ...................................... 361
Adding a language select box ....................... 384
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Transaction Directory overview
The Transaction Directory contains pages

for up to six different transaction box types.
This chapter discusses the basic transaction
box and the following special types of transaction boxes:
Fax box
Interview box
Public interview box
Voice detect box
Language select box
The operator box is also a type of transaction box. For information on the operator
box, see Chapter 5, Operator setup.
Transaction boxes
Transaction boxes are the building blocks of
the voice messaging system. A transaction
box is a set of instructions that tells the system what to do when a call reaches the
transaction box. You can use transaction
boxes to set up specialized call routing, create menus, or provide announcements of
prerecorded information.
For some types of transaction boxes you can
set up one-key dialing, which lets the system route calls and deliver information
based on a callers touchtone response.
Transaction box access
Callers access a transaction box in any of
these ways:
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The caller dials the system ID for the

transaction box.
The caller presses a single touchtone in

response to a one-key dialing menu.
The GotoID--> action automatically

routes the caller to a transaction box.
TRANSACTION DIRECTORY OVERVIEW
Transaction Directory, Transaction Box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
Transaction box of Sandy Simmons
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
Nite? Yes-->456
| Nite: 0:00 | Nite: GotoId--> $PM
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
One-key delay:
1 seconds
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Adding and removing transaction boxes
You can create a transaction box to add new

features to the voice messaging system.
When you add a transaction box, the voice
messaging system copies the settings in the
Transfer and Action sections of the transaction box or voice detect box currently displayed. If an interview box or language
select box is displayed, the voice messaging
system copies the settings entered for the
default subscriber in the Transfer and
Action sections on Application screen
page 7. You can change these settings after
adding the transaction box.
Before adding a transaction box, determine
which subscriber (or the system manager)
will own the box. The owner receives messages for the box when you set the box to
take messages. If you delete the owner, this
box is automatically deleted.
The transfer-greeting-action structure

Each transaction box (except the interview
box) has a transfer-greeting-action structure. If call transfer is turned on, the system
first tries to transfer a call to the phone
number or extension listed. If the call transfer is unsuccessful, the system plays the
appropriate greeting for the box, and then
follows the instructions programmed in the
Action section of the screen.
Unlike a subscribers personal directory
page, a transaction box can be set up for two
different transfer-greeting-action sequences,
one for day mode, the other for night mode.
Adding a range of transaction boxes

To speed up the process of adding transaction boxes, you can add several transaction
boxes at the same time. If you want all
transaction boxes to have the same transfer
and action settings, add the first transaction box and immediately set up the Transfer and Action sections. The next range of
boxes added will all have the same transfer
and action settings.
Deleting a transaction box or its

messages
If you delete a transaction box, make sure to
delete all references to its system ID. The
messages are automatically deleted.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
using one-key dialing............................. 361
348
ADDING AND REMOVING TRANSACTION BOXES
To add a transaction box
1 Press CTRL+T to go to the Transaction

Directory, and press F8.
2 From the Add menu, select Transaction
box and press ENTER.
3 From the dialog box that opens, assign
an owner by doing one of the following:
7 For multilingual systems, type the twoletter language code for the language
you want callers to hear. See Selecting
a language for a port on page 40 for a
table of the language codes.
Press ENTER to assign ownership to

the voice messaging system manager.
8 In the Schedule # field, type the applicable schedule number. If you do not
enter a schedule number, the system
uses the schedule of the port the call
came in on.
Type n to choose a different owner.

Type the owners last name, and
press ENTER.
9 Set up call transfer for the transaction

box, as described in Setting up call
transfer on page 352.
4 Type a system ID for the box, and press

ENTER.
5 Type a name for the box, and press
ENTER.
6 At the Transaction Box screen, in the
Voice name field, record the name of
the transaction box. See the topic Making a recording on page 428 for more
information.
10 Set up greetings for the transaction box,

as described in Setting up greetings on
page 355.
11 Set up the actions that should occur
after the greeting for the transaction
box, as described in Setting up actions
after greetings on page 357.
Continued
349

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
Nite? Yes-->456
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Name Accepts the name for this box. Transaction boxes are sorted by name or by system ID.
System ID
tem ID.
Accepts the transaction box's sys-
Voice name Displays the length, in seconds, of

the recorded voice name. If this field contains 0:00,
the voice name has not been recorded.

language you want callers to hear when you have
a multilingual voice messaging system. Callers
who reach this port hear the system conversation
in the language you have selected. If no language
is specified, the caller hears prompts in the language they selected in a language select box, or
in the port or system language.
Schedule # Accepts the number of the schedule
this box will use: 1, 2, 3, or 4. If you type nothing in this field, the box follows the schedule of the
port that answers the call.
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To add a range of transaction boxes

If possible, go to a transaction box that
has the transfer and action settings that
you want.
5 Type the ending system ID, and press

ENTER.
6 It is not necessary to type anything in
the Constant prefix field. Press
ENTER.
2 From the Add menu, select Range and

press ENTER.
7 It is not necessary to type anything in

the Constant suffix field. Press ENTER.

an owner to the boxes by doing one of
the following:
8 When you are satisfied with the range

you have selected, type y.

press ENTER.
4 In the Start field, type the starting system ID, and press ENTER.
9 When prompted, press any key to continue.

10 When the voice messaging system has
finished adding the range, press PAGE
UP or PAGE DOWN until you find the
new boxes in the Transaction Directory.
11 If you want, type a new name for each
box to replace the system-generated
one.
12 Record greetings for each box, as
described in the procedure Setting up
To delete a transaction box or its messages

Directory, and press PAGE UP or PAGE
DOWN to go to the transaction box you
want to delete.
2 Press F7. From the Delete menu, select
either Box or All messages.
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Setting up call transfer
The call transfer settings determine how the

phone and the voice messaging system
interact during a call transfer. These settings are available when the Day? or
Night? fields are set to Yes.
If call transfer is turned on and Await
answer or Wait for ringback is the transfer type, the voice messaging system first
tries to transfer a call to the phone or extension listed. If call transfer is unsuccessful,
the system plays the appropriate greeting
for the box, and then follows the instructions programmed in the Action section of
the transaction box.
The following procedure, To set up call
transfer, applies to both transaction boxes
and voice detect boxes.
To set up call transfer

Directory.
2 In the Transfer section of the transaction
box, type the appropriate value in the
Day? and Night? fields and press
ENTER.
3 If the Day? or Night? field is set to
Yes, then in the field to the right type
the extension that you want the call to
be transferred to and press ENTER.
4 In the field below the Night? field,
enter the call transfer type and press
ENTER.
5 If you entered a (Await answer) or w
then in the field to the right type the
number of times the extension rings
before the call is transferred.
6 In the Intro field, if necessary, record a
page 428.
7 In the Holding? field, type the appropriate value.
8 In the Transfer options field, type the
appropriate value or values.
9 If you typed g (Gather account number) or p (Gather phone number) in
the Transfer options field, then in the
Gather ID intro field, if necessary,
record a greeting. See Making a recording on page 428 for more information.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
352

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
Nite? Yes-->456
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Day? Turns on call transfer during day mode.

off call transfer.
Night? Turns on call transfer during night mode.
off call transfer.
Call transfer type Accepts one of the following
values to indicate how the phone and voice messaging systems interact during call transfer:
dials the specified extension. If answered
within the number of rings indicated in the
Rings field, the system transfers the call to
this box. If the call rings busy or is unanswered,
the system plays the greeting, then takes the
action indicated in the Action field. Avoid
using this value when the phone system is set
to forward calls for busy extensions.

specified extension, and then releases the call.
To use this setting, the phone system must
transfer the call using the call forward to personal greeting setting. Call holding and call
transfer options are not available with this setting.
and dials the specified extension. If the call is
busy, the system plays the greeting, then
takes the action indicated in the Action
field. If answered within the set number of
rings, the system transfers the call. If the call is
unanswered within the specified number of
rings, the call is released to the station and the
system releases the call to the phone system.
To use this setting, the phone system must
transfer the call using the call forward to personal greeting setting.
Rings Accepts the number of times the extension rings before the call is transferred (if the transfer type is Wait for ringback) or routed back to
the greeting (if the transfer type is Await
answer).
Continued
353
Intro Accesses the recorded introduction for the

transaction box. The voice messaging system
plays this recording before it transfers a call.
Holding? Accepts one of the following values to
indicate whether to allow a caller to hold if the line
is busy:
Y Callers can hold or leave a message.
# Callers can try another extension.
N Turns off call holding.
Transfer options Accepts one or more of the
following values to transfer calls routed through
the transaction box. To use any of these options
except Dial tone detection, set the call transfer
type to Await answer.
A (Announce) Sounds a beep before connecting the caller.
C (Confirm) Lets the recipient choose
whether to take the call before the voice messaging system transfers the call. If the subscriber rejects the call, the system plays the
appropriate greeting and takes the action
indicated in the Action field.
D (Dial tone detection) Checks for a dial
tone before transferring the call. Use this
option if the phone system does not provide
immediate disconnect.
G (Gather account number) Asks callers to
enter an account number before transferring
the call. Do not use this value with the M or S
value.
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I (Introduce) The recipient hears Call for

<subscriber's name> before being connected to the caller. Use this option when
phone.
their name. Before the call is transferred, the
subscriber hears Call from <caller name>. If
the subscriber is not available or rejects the
call, and the caller leaves a message, the
caller's recorded name plays at the beginning
of the message. If the caller does not leave a
message, the subscriber receives the caller's
recorded name alone as a message. Do not
use this value with the S value.
P (Gather phone number) Asks callers to
enter their phone number before transferring
the call. Do not use with the M or S value.
Before the call is transferred, the person hears
Call from <caller's name>. If the subscriber
is not available or rejects the call, the recorded
name is not saved. Do not use this value with
the M value.
Gather ID intro Accesses the LAN Integration
custom recording. Use either the G (Gather
account number) or P (Gather phone number)
call transfer options. If there is a recording in
this field, the voice messaging system plays
the recording before routing a caller from outside the voice messaging system to the destination. If there is no recording in this field, the
system plays a prompt from the GI (Gather ID)
prompt set.
The transaction box greetings are stored in

the Greeting section of the Transaction Box
screen. If call transfer is set to No, or if a
transfer to the extension specified for call
transfer is not successful, the system plays
the active greeting and then takes the specified action.
The voice fields in the Greeting section display how many seconds the greetings last. If
recorded, and the system plays a default
greeting and skips to the action indicated in
the fields in the Action section of the
screen.
The first procedure, To set up transaction
box greetings by phone, shows you how to
record the transaction box greeting from
any touchtone phone. If the transaction box
uses numeric access, the user will not be
able to record a transaction box greeting by
phone when the system ID for the transaction box contains a $ (dollar sign) symbol or
any symbol not found on a phone keypad.
To set up transaction box greetings by phone
1 Call the system. When prompted, enter

your personal ID and security code.
2 When prompted to leave a message for
the transaction box, spell the first three
letters of the transaction box name, or
enter the boxs system ID. The system
will tell you which greeting is currently
active.
3 Follow the conversation prompts to
record the standard day and night greetings, to record an alternate greeting, or
to switch between the standard and
alternate greetings.
4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 twice to record all
three transaction box greetings: once for
the standard day and night greetings,
and once for the alternate greeting.
The second procedure, To set up greetings

from the console, on page 356, applies to
both transaction boxes and voice detect
boxes.
Continued
355
SETTING UP GREETINGS
To set up greetings from the console
1 Go to the Transaction Directory.

2 In the Day field of the transaction box,
record the day greeting. See Making a
3 In the Night field, record the night
page 428.

page 428.
5 In the Active field, type the appropriate

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
Nite? Yes-->456
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Day (Greeting) Accesses the day greeting for

the transaction box. The arrow points to the greeting currently in use.
Active (Greeting) Accepts one of the following

values indicating which greeting plays when the
voice messaging system answers calls.
Night (Greeting) Accesses the night greeting

for the transaction box. The arrow points to the
greeting currently in use.
D/N (Day or night) Makes the standard day

or night greeting active (depending on which
Alt (Greeting) Accesses the alternate greeting

for the transaction box. The arrow points to the
greeting currently in use.

active. If the alternate greeting is active, it is
used in both day and night modes.
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keys during the greeting, the system takes
the action specified in the Action section of
the Transaction Box screen. You can set different actions for the Day and Night settings.
The following procedure, To set up actions
after greetings, applies to both transaction
boxes and voice detect boxes.
To set up actions after greetings

Directory.
2 In the Action section of the transaction
box, in both the Day and Night
fields, type the appropriate values and
press ENTER.
3 If you typed g (Go to system ID) in the
Day or Night field, then in the field
to the right of each of these fields, type
the system ID of the box to which you
want to route the call and press ENTER.
appropriate value.
appropriate value.
appropriate value.
See also
Basic concepts.............................................. 8
messaging ........................................... 334
Continued
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D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
Nite? Yes-->456
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Day (Action) Accepts one of the following values for the action taken after recording a message
during the day schedule.
good-bye.
greeting box.
enter an ID to route the call to in the field to
the right.
Day field. The value determines what action is
taken after recording a message during the night
schedule.
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This setting only applies if the action is Take a
message.
setting only applies if the action is Take a message.
Send msg urgent? Accepts one of the following
values for enabling an unidentified caller to leave
an urgent message. This setting only applies if the
action is Take a message.
message.
ask unidentified callers whether to mark a message as urgent.
After msg Accepts the same values as the Day
action field (except for Take a message). The
value determines the action taken after recording
a callers message. This setting only applies if the
action is Take a message.
Creating a delete-proof transaction box
To prevent yourself or another system manager from accidentally deleting a particular

transaction box, designate a virtual subscriber as owner of the box and then assign
a real subscriber to maintain it.
The real subscriber who maintains the
transaction box receives messages that go
to the transaction box. The real subscriber
can also access the box using the virtual
subscribers personal ID. To prevent the real
subscriber from accessing the transaction
box after leaving your organization, change
the virtual subscribers personal ID.
To create a delete-proof transaction box
1 Create a personal subscriber page for

the virtual subscriber, as described in
the procedure Adding new subscribers
on page 278. On the Personal Directory
screen, do the following:
Give the virtual subscriber a name.
Record the virtual subscribers voice

name.
Activate message delivery for the virtual subscriber; set up delivery to the
extension of the subscriber who
maintains the transaction box.
Turn off call transfer for the virtual

subscriber.
2 Add a transaction box, as described in

the procedure Adding and removing
transaction boxes on page 348. Make
the virtual subscriber the owner of the
transaction box.
3 Tell the real subscriber who maintains
the transaction box the personal ID of
the virtual subscriber.
See also
Setting up transfer options...................... 284
Adding and removing transaction boxes 348
359
Sorting the transaction directory
You can organize the Transaction Directory

by subscribers names or by system IDs. By
default, the voice messaging system sorts
the Transaction Directory by subscribers
names. The current sort order of the Transaction Directory appears in the upper-right
corner of each box.
You may want to use a special naming convention for the different types of transaction
boxes to keep them sorted together
onscreen. For example, you could start all
transaction box names with T or Tbox,
or reserve a range of system IDs for transaction boxes.
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To change the transaction directory sort order

2 From the Command menu, select the
sort order, and press ENTER.

using one-key dialing
With one-key dialing, you can offer callers a
menu of choices. One-key dialing enables
you to program a single digit to represent
the full system ID for a subscribers extension ID, a transaction box, or an interview
box. Instead of entering the full system ID,
the caller just presses a single key.
Callers can bypass one-key dialing. You set
the system to pause a certain number of
seconds for additional touchtones before
routing the call according to the transaction
boxs one-key dialing menu. These pauses
allow callers to press full system IDs to
bypass one-key dialing, even during a greeting. You program how long the system waits
between touchtones using the One-key
delay field.
The next procedure, To set up one-key
dialing for a transaction box, applies
to both transaction boxes and specialpurpose fax boxes.
To set up one-key dialing for a transaction box
1 Go to the Transaction Box screen.

2 If necessary, rerecord the box greeting so
that it describes the one-key dialing
choices. See Making a recording on
page 428.
system IDs to which you want to route
callers.
2. This setting creates a 1- or 2-second
pause that lets callers bypass the onekey dialing options and enter full system
IDs instead.
5 In the Day and Night fields of the
Action section of the screen, type the
code for the action that you want to
occur when a caller does not press a
touchtone key. Press ENTER.
In most cases, type o (Go to the operator). This setting transfers the call to the
operator when the caller presses an
incorrect key or does not press a key.
The O setting also transfers callers without a touchtone phone to the operator.
See the field descriptions on page 358
for a list of action codes.
Continued
361
ROUTING CALLERS FROM A TRANSACTION BOX USING ONE-KEY DIALING

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Departments Box
411
Voice name: 0:01
Language: ES
Schedule #: 1
Yes-->123
| Day: 0:12 | Day: Operator
Nite? Yes-->456
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
:0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->700
2->800
3->555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
One-key delay:
1 seconds
Action (Day and Night) Accepts a setting for

the action you want the voice messaging system to
take after playing the greeting. In most cases for
routing callers using one-key dialing, type o (Go
to the operator).
callers to after they enter a digit. The voice messaging system listens for one-key dialing entries
prompt.
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that you want the voice messaging system to wait
for additional entries before taking action.
Using special-purpose fax boxes
In addition to a subscribers personal fax

box, the voice messaging system can have
fax boxes for receiving faxes routed to a particular system ID. You can use these fax
boxes for a special purpose, such as collecting fax rsums from job applicants or
incoming orders for a sales order department. These additional fax boxes are
assigned to an owner and appear in the
Transaction Directory.
The fields that appear on the Fax Box screen
are similar to those on the Expanded Fax
Options screen for the personal fax box. As
with the personal fax box, you can add
voice annotation and voice announcement
options for the special purpose fax box. See
Customizing fax delivery options on
page 306 for a description of these features.
You can also add one-key dialing menu
choices from a special-purpose fax box. For
details, see Routing callers from a transaction box using one-key dialing on
page 361.
To add a special-purpose fax box

2 From the Add menu, select Fax box
and press ENTER.
an owner to the fax box by doing one of
the following:


Type the owners last name and press
ENTER.
4 Type the fax boxs system ID, and press

ENTER. To prevent callers from directly
accessing the fax box, type $ (dollar
sign) in front of the system ID.
5 Type a name for the fax box and press
ENTER.
6 In the Voice annotation section of the
Fax Box screen, record a greeting for the
fax box in the Greeting field. See Making a recording, on page 428.
See also
Setting up the public fax box................... 163
Customizing fax delivery options ........... 306
Continued
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USING SPECIAL-PURPOSE FAX BOXES
To set up voice announcement and annotations

Directory. Press PAGE UP or PAGE
DOWN to go to the Fax Box screen.

the callers annotation and press ENTER.
2 In the Voice Annotation section, in the

Greeting field, record a greeting for the
fax box. See Making a recording on

edit or rerecord their annotation, and
press ENTER.
3 In the Ask for voice? field, type y and

press ENTER.

ENTER.
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Transaction Directory, Fax Box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Marketing Fax Box
Fax box of Sandy Simmons
System ID: 412
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
| Fax Intro: 0:00
Ask for voice? Yes
Edits OK? No
| After msg/hold: Operator
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->123
2->456
3->555
4->
5->
From Fax Box
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Greeting Contains the greeting for the specialpurpose fax box. This is the recording a caller
hears when attempting to send a fax. The owner
of the box can use a phone or a local connection
to record a greeting.
Edits OK? Accepts y or n to let callers edit

or rerecord their voice annotations.
to specify that the owner be notified of each individual fax message, even when there is no voice
annotation. This field works in combination with
the Ask for voice? field.
for a fax message.
Continued
365

2 In the Voice Annotation section, type n
in the Ask for voice? field and press
ENTER.
press ENTER.
To set up system actions when there is no fax

port available

2 In the Fax section, type the appropriate
action in the No fax available field.

should be routed in the unnamed
field to the right.

action in the After msg/hold field.

press ENTER.
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Transaction Directory, Fax Box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Marketing Fax Box
Fax box of Sandy Simmons
System ID: 412
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
| Fax Intro: 0:00
Ask for voice? Yes
Edits OK? No
| After msg/hold: Operator
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->123
2->456
3->555
4->
5->
From Fax Box
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->

Edits OK? Accepts y or n to let callers edit
or rerecord their voice annotations.
to specify that the owner be notified of each
No fax available Accepts one of the following
values to determine the systems response when
no fax port is available to receive the fax.
F (Fax hold) Lets the caller hold for a fax port.
Voice detect call holding is not available.
T (Take a message) Tells the voice messaging system to record a message.
G (Go to system ID) Tells the voice messaging system to route the call to another system
ID. You must enter a valid system ID (in the
box directly to the right of GotoID-->).
then disconnects.
or chooses not to remain on hold. Set this field
only if the No fax available field is set to either
Take a message or Fax hold.
H (Disconnect [Hang up]) Instructs the voice
messaging system to disconnect immediately,
without saying good-bye.
O (Transfer to the operator) Instructs the
voice messaging system to route the call to
the operator box.
H (Disconnect [Hang up]) Tells the voice

messaging system to disconnect immediately,
O (Transfer to the operator) Instructs the

voice messaging system to route the call to
the operator box.
disconnects.
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Setting up an interview box
You use an interview box to give information to or collect information from callers,
even during nonbusiness hours. For example, a business could use interview boxes to
take sales orders or to conduct market
research.
An interview box can contain up to 20 questions or announcements. Each interview
box has an owner, a name, and a unique
system ID. Messages left at an interview box
are available only to the owner of the box. If
you delete the owner, the interview box is
automatically deleted.
If you are collecting information, set up the
interview box to record responses to interview questions. The system beeps after each
question to prompt callers to respond, and
you can specify the maximum recording
length of each response to a question. When
the interview boxs owner retrieves the messages, the owner hears the callers replies
with a beep separating each response.
See also
368
Routing interview information to more

than one person
There are two ways to set up interview
boxes to collect information and route it to
more than one person. You can use a public
interview box or group messaging.
The public interview box is an interview box
with messages available only to subscribers
with public message access. Make sure that
at least one subscriber has access to these
messages.
With group messaging, messages to the
interview box are automatically routed to all
members of a specified group. The system
uses the Send to group field on the Interview Box screen to route responses to all
members of the group.
SETTING UP AN INTERVIEW BOX
Interview box planning

Before setting up an interview box, it is
helpful to write out the text of the questions. For each question, decide the number of seconds a callers response can last.
The questions can include introductory
statements or other information. It is also
helpful to decide how a caller will be routed
to the interview box. A caller can be routed
to an interview box in any of the following
ways:
You can set the After field for another

box (for example, a transaction box,
opening box, personal directory box, or
interview box) to route a caller to the
interview boxs system ID (for example,
GotoID-->$PM).
You can set up a one-key dialing menu,

where the system ID for the interview
box is assigned to a single key.
The caller can press the system ID for

the interview box. You should include
the system ID in the opening greeting so
that callers know how to reach the interview box.
Continued
369
To set up an interview box
1 Press Ctrl+T to go to the Transaction

2 From the Add menu, select Interview
7 In the first Question field, record the

first interview box question. See the
topic Making a recording on page 428
To make the first question an introduction, set the Reply field to 0 (zero)
seconds so that the interview proceeds
immediately from the introduction to
the first question. Press ENTER.

an owner to the interview box by doing
one of the following:


Type the owners last name, and press
ENTER.
8 In the subsequent Question fields,

record the remaining questions.
4 Type a system ID for the interview box,

and press ENTER.
9 For each question, in the Reply field,

type an appropriate amount of time (in
seconds) for the callers response. Press
ENTER.
5 Type a name for the interview box and

press ENTER.
10 In the Send msg urgent? field, type the

appropriate value.
6 In the Voice name field, record the

interview box name. See Making a
recording on page 428 for more information.
11 In the After field, type the appropriate

value for the action that should be taken
after the interview is completed.
12 To route the interview responses to all
members of a group, enter the group
system ID in the Send to group field.
To delete an interview box or its message
1 Go to the transaction box in the Transaction Directory and press F7.

Box or All messages, and press
ENTER.
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NOTES
Messages are automatically deleted
according to the box owners hold/
archive times set in the Hold/archive
msg fields.
When you delete an interview box, make

sure you delete all references to its system ID.
Transaction Directory, Interview Box screen

Name:
System ID:
Sales Interview Box
1432
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Interview box of
Sandy Simmons
Voice name: 0:00
Language: US
-- Question -- Reply ------- Question -- Reply ------ Question -- Reply ---|

|
1. 0:07
0 secs
| 9. 0:00
0 secs
| 17. 0:00
0 secs
2. 0:25
15 secs
| 10. 0:00
0 secs
| 18. 0:00
0 secs
3. 0:15
15 secs
| 11. 0:00
0 secs
| 19. 0:00
0 secs
4. 0:12
15 secs
| 12. 0:00
0 secs
| 20. 0:00
0 secs
5. 0:35
15 secs
| 13. 0:00
0 secs
|
6. 0:00
0 secs
| 14. 0:00
0 secs
|Send msg urgent? No
7. 0:00
0 secs
| 15. 0:00
0 secs
|After: Say-Bye
8. 0:00
0 secs
| 16. 0:00
0 secs
|Send to Group: ADMIN
Voice name Accesses the recording for the

interview box's recorded name. The voice messaging system plays the recording when the
owner selects it to record a new greeting.
Question Accesses the recording for the interview box questions.
Reply Accepts the maximum length, in seconds,
of a caller's reply to the interview box question.
Set the reply time to 0 (zero) if no reply is
expected.
Send msg urgent? Accepts one of the following values for letting an unidentified (outside)
caller leave an urgent message for a subscriber:
message.
message as urgent.
After Accepts one of the following values for

to take after the interview is completed.
H (Hang up)
good-bye.

greeting box.
Send to group Accepts the name of a group
that receives callers messages. The name of the
group cannot contain spaces or be longer than
ten characters.

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Public interview box overview
The public interview box is a special interview box in the Transaction Directory. Messages left in the public interview box (as well
as those left in the operator box and the
public fax box) are public messages, which
are available to all subscribers with public
message access. The voice messaging system can have only one public interview box.
Typically, the public interview box is used to
handle calls that are intended for the operator but go unanswered. The public interview box asks a caller for his or her name,
phone number, and a brief message. However, the use of this box is not restricted to
just this purpose.
You set up the public interview box in the
same way you set up a regular interview
box. However, in addition to the fields on
the Public Interview Box screen, the fields
on line 71 of Application screen page 9 also
control this box. For details on setting up an
interview box, see Setting up an interview
box on page 368.
The public interview box ID

The public interview box comes with a
default system ID of $PM. You can change
this ID, but you cannot delete the public
interview box or add a new one. If you do
change the system ID, you must also change
all references to the deleted ID. This system
ID is typically used with the GotoID-->
action set on Application screen page 4 or
on Application screen page 3.
Message notification for public

messages
System managers and operators may not
want the system to call them or light their
message waiting lamps if the only messages
they have waiting are public messages. You
can add the C access code to the Access
field on their personal directory pages to
have the system light their message waiting
lamps only when they have new messages
specifically addressed to them.
Message deletion for public messages
See also
Saving and storing messages .................. 154
Setting up an interview box..................... 368
372
You delete messages from the public interview box in the same way you delete messages from a regular interview box. However, it
is best to delete messages from the public
interview box at a time when there is little
call traffic on the system. If the box has
many messages, the system may not be able
to answer calls for several minutes. If you
must delete public interview box messages
while calls are coming in, forward all voice
messaging lines to the operator so that all
calls can be answered.
PUBLIC INTERVIEW BOX OVERVIEW
Transaction Directory, Public Interview Box screen

Name:
System ID:
Public Interview
$PM
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Interview box of
Public Access
Voice name: 0:00
Language: US
-- Question -- Reply ------- Question -- Reply ------ Question -- Reply ---|

|
1. 0:05
0 secs
| 9. 0:00
0 secs
| 17. 0:00
0 secs
2. 0:01
15 secs
| 10. 0:00
0 secs
| 18. 0:00
0 secs
3. 0:01
15 secs
| 11. 0:00
0 secs
| 19. 0:00
0 secs
4. 0:02
15 secs
| 12. 0:00
0 secs
| 20. 0:00
0 secs
5. 0:02
40 secs
| 13. 0:00
0 secs
|
6. 0:02
0 secs
| 14. 0:00
0 secs
|
7. 0:00
0 secs
| 15. 0:00
0 secs
8. 0:00
0 secs
| 16. 0:00
0 secs
| After: Say-Bye
|
|
|
| Send to group:
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Voice detect box overview
If your phone system or service area

includes callers without touchtone access,
and your voice messaging system is not set
up to detect dial pulses, you can offer
menus and directories to callers through
voice detection. In voice detect boxes, the
system listens for spoken sound and
silence, not touchtones.
You use voice detect boxes to set up special
call routing applications or special audiotext applications. A voice detect box is a
type of transaction box that lets callers
make a choice by speaking instead of pressing a single touchtone key. You can combine
voice detect boxes with interview boxes to
collect information from callers.
Voice detect call holding

You can also set up voice detect call holding
for a voice detect box. With this option, callers say Yes or nothing instead of pressing
a key to indicate that they want to hold for a
busy extension. Voice detect call holding is
available on voice detect boxes, transaction
boxes, the operator box, the public fax box,
and on personal directory pages. You can
also set voice detect call holding for the
default subscriber from Application screen
page 7.
The Voice Detect Box screen

The Voice Detect box is similar to the Transaction box, except that callers make selections by voice instead of using one-key
dialing menus. Each system has one sample
voice detect box (system ID $VOICE)
installed.
Each voice detect box has a name, a unique
system ID, and an owner. The owners name
is displayed in the Voice detect box of field
in the upper-right corner of the screen. If
you delete a subscriber from the system,
any voice detect boxes owned by that subscriber are also deleted.
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VOICE DETECT BOX OVERVIEW
Transaction Directory, Voice Detect Box screen

Name: Voice detect box
System ID: $VOICE
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice detect box of Sandy Simmons
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
No
Nite? No
| Nite: 0:00 | Nite: Operator
|
|
Await-Ans--> 4
Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
|
Transfer options :
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Voice selection: Voice-> O
Silence-> 411
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Setting up a voice detect box
You add voice detect boxes, one at a time,

from the voice messaging system console.
You cannot add a range of voice detect
boxes.
When you add voice detect boxes, the system copies the values in the Transfer and
Action sections of the transaction box or
voice detect box currently on the screen. If
an interview box or language select box is
on the screen instead, the voice detect box
uses the values for the default subscriber, as
entered on Application screen page 7. You
can change these settings after adding the
voice detect box.
Setting up voice detect call holding

Voice detect call holding lets callers hold for
a busy extension by saying Yes or by
remaining silent, instead of pressing a key.
Call holding only works when call transfer is
turned on, and the call transfer type is set to
either Await answer or Wait for ringback. You set voice detect call holding on
any screen that has the Holding? field
for example, the Personal Directory screen,
Application screen page 7, and the Voice
Detect Box screenby typing v in this
field.
Controlling how long the system waits

for speech
You can control the number of seconds the
system waits for an outside caller to speak.
You set this value on the Max time to wait
for voice field on line 29 of the Switch
Setup screen page 3. By default, the system
waits 3 seconds for the caller to speak.
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Setting up a voice detect box

1 Plan the voice detect application.
Decide how many voice detect boxes
you need, and how callers will be routed
to them.
2 Add the boxes to the system.
Add voice detect boxes, as described in
the procedure To set up a voice detect
box on page 377.
When you set up the voice detect box, do
not put the operators system ID in the
Silence--> field on the Voice Detect
Box screen. Instead, set this field to route
callers to another transaction box, which
routes callers to the operator or provides
another action.
3 Set up the opening greeting on

See the procedures for Setting up greetings beginning on page 355.
Route callers to the voice detect box by
setting the Action field to go to the
boxs system ID.
4 Test the voice messaging system.

Call the system and confirm that the system handles the call correctly, both
when you say Yes and when you
remain silent.
SETTING UP A VOICE DETECT BOX
To set up a voice detect box

If possible, go to a transaction box or
voice detect box that has the transfer
and action settings that you want.
2 From the Add menu, select Voice detect
an owner to the voice detect box by
doing one of the following:


press ENTER.
4 Type a system ID for the voice detect

box, and press ENTER. To prevent callers from reaching the box directly, type
$ (dollar sign) at the start of the system
ID.
5 Type a name for the voice detect box,
and press ENTER. The Voice Detect Box
screen appears with this initial information entered.
See also
Default subscriber overview ..................... 94
6 In the Voice name field, record the

voice detect box name. See the topic
Setting up greetings on page 355 for
more information.
7 In the Schedule # field, type the applicable schedule number. If you do not
enter a schedule number, the system
uses the schedule of the port that
answered the call coming into the voice
detect box.
8 If necessary, change or set the call transfer settings, as described in the topic
Setting up call transfer on page 352.
9 In the Day, Night, and (if necessary)
Alt fields, record the applicable greetings. See Setting up greetings on
10 If necessary, change or set the action
settings, as described inSetting up
actions after greetings on page 357.
11 In the Voice and Silence fields, type
the system IDs of the extensions to
which you want to route callers.
Continued
377
SETTING UP A VOICE DETECT BOX
To delete a voice box or its messages

DOWN to go to the Voice Detect Box
Box or All messages, and press
ENTER.
Voice Detect Box screen

System ID: $VOICE
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
No
Nite? No
|
|
Await-Ans--> 4
Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
|
Transfer options :
|
Silence-> 411
Name Accepts the name for the voice detect

box.
Voice selection: voice Accepts a system ID to

route the call to after the caller speaks.
System ID Accepts the voice detect box

system ID.
Voice selection: silence Accepts a system ID to

route callers to when they remain silent. To limit
phantom calls to the operator, avoid using the
operator's system ID in this field.
Voice name Accesses the recorded name of the

voice detect box.
Schedule # Accepts the number of the schedule
the voice detect box will use: 1, 2, 3, or 4. If
you type nothing in this field, the box follows the
schedule of the port that answered the call.
378
Using a voice detect box to limit

phantom calls to the operator
If you do not have general tone detection
activated or if your phone system does not
support immediate disconnect, the operator may receive phantom calls when a caller
hangs up during the opening greeting. To
prevent phantom phone calls, route callers
from the opening greeting to a voice detect
box, which confirms whether or not a caller
is still connected.
To use a voice detect box to limit phantom calls

to the operator
1 Add a transaction box, as described in

the topic Adding and removing transaction boxes on page 348.
2 On the Transaction Box screen, copy the
silence prompt into the transaction
boxs day greeting. See Copying or
appending a recording to a voice field
on page 429.
3 In the Day? and Night? fields of the
Transfer section of the screen, type n,
and press ENTER.
4 In the Day and Night fields of the
Action section of the screen, type h
(Hang up), and press ENTER.

System ID: $VOICE
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
No
Nite? No
|
|
Await-Ans--> 4
Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
|
Transfer options :
|
Silence-> 411
Day? or Night? (Transfer) Turns call transfer on

or off for day or night mode. Type y to turn on
call transfer during both day mode and night
mode. Then, in the field to the right, type the
extension to which the voice messaging system
transfers calls. Type n to turn off call transfer.
Day (Greeting) Accesses the recording for the
transaction boxs day greeting.
Day or Night (Action) Accepts values for the

take after playing the greeting for day or night
mode. To limit phantom calls to the operator,
type h (Hang up), which disconnects the caller
Continued
379
USING A VOICE DETECT BOX TO LIMIT PHANTOM CALLS TO THE OPERATOR
To use a voice detect box to limit phantom calls to the operator, continued
5 Add a voice detect box as described in

the procedure To set up a voice detect
box on page 377.
7 In the Silence field, type the system ID

of the transaction box you just added,
and press ENTER.
6 On the Voice Detect Box screen, in the

Voice field, type 0 (the system ID for
the operator box), and press ENTER.
8 In the appropriate greeting field, record

the greeting so that it asks callers to say
Yes to reach the operator. See Making
a recording on page 428.

System ID: $VOICE
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
No
Nite? No
|
|
Await-Ans--> 4
Rings
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? No
Transfer options :
|
Silence-> 411
Greeting (day, night, alternate) Accesses the

recording for the voice detect boxs day, night, or
alternate greeting. The arrow points to the greeting currently in use.
Voice selection: voice Accepts a system ID to
route the call to after the caller speaks.
See also
Adding and removing transaction boxes.....348
Copying or appending a recording to a
voice field................................................ 429
380
Voice selection: silence Accepts a system ID to

route callers to after they remain silent. Do not use
the operator's system ID in this field.
USING A VOICE DETECT BOX TO LIMIT PHANTOM CALLS TO THE OPERATOR
To use a voice detect box to limit calls to the operator, continued

10 In the Day field of the Action section
of the screen, type g (Go to system ID),
and press ENTER.
11 In the unnamed field to the right of the

Day field, type the system ID of the
voice detect box and press ENTER.

E A S Y M A D E
Page 3 of 10
16.
Name: Opening Box
System ID: OPEN
Voice name: 0:01

| Day: GotoID--> $VOICE
Nite: 0:15
Alt: 0:00
|
|
Active: D/N
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------18.One-key dialing: 1-> 555
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Day (Action) Accepts a value for the action you

want the voice messaging system to take after taking a message. To limit phantom calls to the operator, type g (Go to system ID), which routes the
call to another system ID. Then, type a system ID
in the field immediately to the right.
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Language select box overview
A language select box is a type of transaction box that lets outside callers choose the
language they hear during the system conversation. Language select boxes occur only
when the voice messaging system has more
than one language installed.
You can set up a language select box to
assign languages to one-key dialing choices.
In conjunction with a voice detect box, you
can set up a language select box to assign a
language to callers automatically. That way,
even outside callers without touchtone
phones can hear the system conversation in
their language.
382
By creating one or more language select

boxes, you can set up a multilingual system
without answering each port in a particular
language.
Each language select box has a name, a
unique system ID, and the system manager
as its owner. Only a system manager can
add or change language select boxes at the
system console. Language select boxes cannot be changed by phone.
LANGUAGE SELECT BOX OVERVIEW
Transaction Directory, Language Select Box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Language select box
Language select box of SYSTEM
System ID: $LS1
One key delay:
0 seconds
Introduction: 0:05
-Greeting--Key--Language:----Action ----------------------------------------0:08
1> US English
GotoID-->$ENGLISH
| Wait for TT: 0 seconds
0:07
2> DE German
GotoID-->$GERMAN
| Repeat greeting: 0 times
0:00
3> US English
Restart
|
0:00
4> US English
Restart
|
0:00
5> US English
Restart
|
0:00
6> US English
Restart
|
0:00
7> US English
Restart
|
0:00
8> US English
Restart
|
0:00
9> US English
Restart
|
0:00
0> US English
Restart
|
No TT> US English
Operator
|
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Adding a language select box
To implement a multilingual voice messaging system, you can add a language select
box to let callers choose the language they
want to hear. If you expect to receive a substantial number of calls in a particular language, you may want to select a language
for a port.
Language select call transfer type
Voice detect used with language select

boxes
If many callers do not have touchtone
phones, you can use language select boxes
by setting the No TT (no touchtone) field
to a language choice.
Setting the restart ID for each language
In most cases, it is best to use the Await

answer call transfer type throughout the
system when you create language select
boxes. Using this setting ensures that an
outside callers choice is retained throughout the call.
If you use language select boxes, you need

to set how the system restarts calls for each
language offered. Otherwise, an outside
caller may reach a language select box more
than once during a call, and be asked to
choose a language again. There are two
ways the system restarts a call:
If call transfer is set to Await answer, the

voice messaging system monitors the entire
progress of a call.
When a caller reaches a box with the

Restart action set.
When a caller presses the # (pound) key

after hearing the Say-bye prompt.
With the Release or Wait for ringback

call transfer types, the voice messaging system does not monitor the progress of the
call. On phone systems that do not include
information about where a call is transferred from, the system may ask the caller to
choose the language again or the system
might not play prompts in the callers
selected language.
On systems with only one language, the system restarts calls by returning callers to the
opening greeting box. Systems with more
than one language should restart callers at a
box with recordings in the callers selected
language. This box can be another voice
detect box, or a transaction box, a directory
menu or group, the operator for their language, or any other valid system ID.
For information on how to set the restart ID,
see Routing callers to a language select
box on page 58.
384
ADDING A LANGUAGE SELECT BOX
Setup steps for a language select box

1 Set up the language select box.
See the next procedure, To create a language select box.
2 Set the Restart ID field for each
language.
See Routing callers to a language select
box on page 58.
3 Set up the opening greeting.
Route callers to the language select box
from the opening greeting. See Setting
up greetings on page 52.
To create a language select box

2 From the Add menu, select Language
select box and press ENTER.
3 In the dialog box that opens, type a system ID for the box, and press ENTER.
4 Type a name for the box, and press
ENTER.
5 From the Language Select Box screen, in
the One-key delay field, type 1 or 2.
This creates a 1- or 2-second pause that
lets callers bypass the one-key dialing
options and enter system IDs.
6 In the Introduction field, if you want,
record an introduction to the language
select box. See Making a recording on
page 428.
7 In the Greeting fields, record the greetings for each language. See Making a
8 For each number in the Key column,

type the language code in the Language field, and press ENTER. See
Selecting a language for a port on
page 40 for a table of language codes.
9 For each language, in the Action field,
type the action setting that you want the
system to take once a caller selects a language, and press ENTER.
10 In the No TT field, type the language
code for the language that you want callers who do not press a key to hear. Press
ENTER.
11 In the Wait for TT field, type the time,
in seconds, that you want the voice messaging system to wait after a caller
presses a key, and press ENTER.
12 In the Repeat greeting field, type the
appropriate value.
Continued
385
To delete a language select box

Directory. Press PAGE DOWN to go to
the language select box that you want to
delete, and press F7.
2 From the Delete menu, type y to confirm that you want to delete the language select box.
NOTE
If you delete a language select box, also
delete all references to the boxs system
ID.
Language Select Box screen

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Language select box
Language select box of SYSTEM
System ID: $LS1
One key delay:
0 seconds
Introduction: 0:05
-Greeting--Key--Language:----Action ----------------------------------------0:08
1> US English
GotoID-->$ENGLISH
| Wait for TT: 0 seconds
0:07
2> DE German
GotoID-->$GERMAN
| Repeat greeting: 0 times
0:00
3> US English
Restart
|
0:00
4> US English
Restart
|
0:00
5> US English
Restart
|
0:00
6> US English
Restart
|
0:00
7> US English
Restart
|
0:00
8> US English
Restart
|
0:00
9> US English
Restart
|
0:00
0> US English
Restart
|
No TT> US English
Operator
|
Name Accepts the name of the language select

box.
System ID Accepts the system ID for the language select box.
that you want the system to wait for a caller to
enter additional keys before the system takes
action. You can enter up to 9999 seconds.
Introduction Accesses the recorded introduction for the language select box. The voice messaging system plays this recording first, and then
plays the recordings in the Greeting fields. This
field is optional.
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Greeting Accesses the recording that tells callers which key to press to select a language. You
can make up to 10 different recordings, one for
each numbered key. The recording should be in
the language callers hear after pressing a key.
Language Accepts the two-letter code and
description of a language installed on the system.
When a caller presses the key assigned to the language, the system plays prompts in that language
for the rest of the call.

good-bye.
greeting box.
No TT Accepts the two-letter code and description of the language the system should use when
a caller does not press a key during the greeting.
Type the Action setting that you want the system
to use after the greeting in the field to the right of
the language. The system also assigns the language in this field and takes the action if the caller
presses * .
Wait for TT Accepts the number of seconds the
system waits for a caller to enter a digit before
repeating the greeting or assigning the language
and taking the action in the No TT field. You can
enter up to 9999 seconds.
Repeat greeting Accepts the number of times
the system repeats the introduction and greeting
recordings before assigning the language and
taking the action set in the No TT field. You can
enter up to 9999 times.
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C H A P T E R 1 5
Fax library
Fax-on-demand overview................................ 390

Setting up the fax library ................................. 392
Changing the fax library menu........................ 399
Creating a fax catalog...................................... 400
Creating a custom fax-on-demand cover
sheet.................................................................. 401
Sending fax library documents from the
console.............................................................. 404
Routing callers to the fax library ..................... 406
Setting up automatic fax transmittal .............. 408
Using one-key dialing for fax-on-demand ..... 410
Building fax library menus with one-key
dialing ............................................................... 412
CHAPTER 15: FAX LIBRARY
389
Fax-on-demand overview
This chapter describes how to set up your

fax-on-demand fax library. Fax-on-demand
enables callers to select documents from a
fax library and have those documents faxed
directly to them. Fax-on-demand is one of
the two components (along with fax mail)
included with the optional ActiveFax package.
The system will attach its own fax-ondemand cover sheet to every fax sent from
the fax library. This cover sheet is separate
from the cover sheet used for fax mail. You
can customize the fax-on-demand cover
sheet to show a logo, letterhead, or other
image.
You can use fax-on-demand to make information about your organization, its services, or its products readily available to
anyone who calls. Or, you can set up fax-ondemand for internal use only and not allow
public access. Even if callers dont have
access, subscribers can use it to send information quickly and efficiently to callers,
customers, or other business contacts.
Document organization in the fax library
A central fax library

Fax-on-demand uses a central fax library to
store the documents that a caller or subscriber can request. You add documents to
the fax library by faxing each document
directly to one of your systems fax ports.
Once the new document has been faxed to
the fax library, you assign it a document
number, give it an onscreen description,
and record a voice name. This process is
described in greater detail in this chapter.
See also
Setting up the fax library ......................... 392
Changing the fax library menu ............... 399
Creating a fax catalog............................... 400
Creating a custom fax-on-demand cover
sheet .......................................................... 401
390

constructs a fax library menu, listing all the
documents in the fax library that callers can
hear over the phone. The system lets you
keep certain fax library documents out of
the fax library. Callers do not know they are
available, but subscribers can still fax these
documents.
In addition to using the standard fax library
menu, you can use transaction boxes to create customized library menus so that callers
do not have to search through the entire fax
library. You can also set up one-key dialing
menus to let callers request specific fax
documents.
To help organize your fax documents, you
can create a fax library catalog, which is a
list of the documents available from the fax
library. Callers can request the fax catalog
to review the document list before deciding
which documents to receive from the faxon-demand service.
FAX-ON-DEMAND OVERVIEW
Fax Library screen

F A X
Fax library ID:
Fax voice menu:
$_FAXLIB
0:00
L I B R A R Y
Cover sheet logo: $
Trim top of documents: 75
Doc # Description
Voice Requests Last Request
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* $
Cover Sheet
0:01
290
03/20/02
$01
Financial References
0:03
9
03/18/02
$02
Services/Rates
0:03
125
03/20/02
391
Setting up the fax library
The fax library is the central location for all

the fax documents available through faxon-demand. You can add new documents
to the fax library at any time. You can also
delete documents, replace an existing document with a new one, or append additional
pages to an existing document.
Add documents to the fax library

Adding documents to the fax library consists of the following process:
1 Prepare a paper original for each document you want to add.
2 Fax the document to the fax port, which
transmits the document from a standard
fax machine to a fax port.
See To fax documents to the fax port
on page 394.
3 Add the document to the fax library by
assigning it a document number, giving
it an onscreen description, and recording its voice name.
See To add documents to the fax
library on page 396.
Append to or replace fax documents in

the library
You can append to or replace documents in
the fax library at any time. The process for
appending to and replacing fax documents
is similar to adding new documents to the
fax library.
When you replace a document, the system
deletes the old document and stores the
new one in its place. The system also deletes
the documents recorded name.
When you append pages to an existing document, the system saves the original document description and recorded name.
See To replace or append to an existing
document in the fax library on page 397.
392
SETTING UP THE FAX LIBRARY
Assign fax library document numbers
Determine vertical spacing
Assign a unique document number to each

document you add to the fax library. This
number is independent of the system IDs
and can duplicate them. After a caller
reaches the fax library, he or she chooses a
fax-on-demand document by entering the
document ID. Document numbers can be
up to five characters long, can consist of
only digits, or can include the $ (dollar sign)
symbol.
At some point, you should check some test

faxes from the fax machine you will use to
add documents to the fax library. Check the
vertical space taken up on these test faxes
by the fax machines sender information, or
Transmit Terminal Information (TTI). This
information is added to the top of each
faxed page by the sending fax machine, and
includes the date and time of transmission,
page numbers, and other information
about the sending fax machine.
When setting up your fax library, consider

grouping the document numbers. If you
have many documents in your library, you
may want to group different types of documents into different ranges of document
numbers.
If there are some fax documents that you
want to make available only to certain people, then make them hidden documents.
You can hide a document in two ways:
Begin the document number with one

or more $ symbols. Callers cannot
request such a document from a phone,
but the document can be faxed from the
console or through the use of a transaction box or interview box.
Give the document a regular document

number, but dont give it a recorded
name. Documents without a recorded
name are not listed when the system
tells callers what documents are available. Callers will not know these documents are available unless you tell them.
When you add documents to the system,

trim the TTI off the faxed document so that
it does not appear on faxes stored in the fax
library. The fax-on-demand system will add
its own TTI when the document is faxed
from the library to a caller. See To trim the
top of a fax document on page 398.
Continued
393
To fax documents to the fax port
1 On the Fax Setup screen, locate the Fax

port status field of the fax port you want
to use for adding documents to the
library. Write down the current setting so
that you can reset the field when you
have finished adding documents to the
library.
2 Set the Fax port status field to Off.
3 Insert the pages of your first document
into the feeder of a standard fax machine.
On the fax machines keypad, enter the
extension assigned to the fax port. (Do
not use automatic or speed dial.) Listen
for a short tone. This tone is different
from the usual high-pitched fax carrier
tone.
4 Enter the fax library document number
on the fax machines keypad. The number must be no more than five digits.
Use # for the dollar sign ($).
394
If you do not enter a document number

at this point, you can do so later from the
console. However, the system assigns the
designation unknown to all unnumbered fax submissions. You cannot see
the contents of a document after you fax
it into the system, so you will not be able
to distinguish among multiple documents designated as unknown.
5 Start the fax transmission. Wait until the
fax machine completes and disconnects
before you submit an additional document. The voice messaging system
interprets all pages faxed in a single call
as one document.
6 Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each fax
document you want to add to the fax
library.
7 When you have finished faxing documents to the system, go to the Fax Setup
screen and reset the Fax port status
field to its original setting.
Fax Setup screen

E A S Y M A D E
Page 10 of 12
FAX SETUP
---------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|-------1. Fax port status:
Ans |
Ans | Ans
| A/D
2. CSID: 555-5555
Additional TTI? No
Number of sets: 3
Home area code: 206
-------------------------------Local Exchanges-------------------------------523, 527-530, 535
Fax port status Controls and sets the status for

each fax port. Setting the status of a fax port is like
setting the status for a voice port. For example, on
a system with four fax ports, these fields identify
the fax boards as Port A through Port D.
Continued
395
To add documents to the fax library
1 Press CTRL+ F to go to the Fax Library

2 From the Add menu, locate the document you want to add. (The documents
are sorted in the order in which they
were received, from the oldest to the
newest.)
3 To accept the default document number,
press ENTER. To change the number,
type over it.
4 If you want, type a brief document

description (up to 40 characters) and
press ENTER. This description is useful
for identifying documents.
5 Press F8 to add the document to the fax
library.
6 In the Voice field, record a name for
the document so that the system can tell
callers that the document is available.
See the topic Making a recording on
Fax Library screen

F A X
Fax library ID:
Fax voice menu:
L I B R A R Y
$_FAXLIB
0:00
Cover sheet logo: $

Doc # Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* $
Cover Sheet
0:00
290
03/20/99
$01
0:00
9
03/18/99
$02
Services/Rates
0:00
125
03/20/99
Voice Contains the recording callers hear when

they listen to the list of documents in the fax
library.
396
To replace or append to an existing document in

the fax library
1 Fax the pages to replace or append to a

document to the fax library, as described
in the procedure To fax documents to
the fax port on page 394.
2 Press CTRL+F to go to the Fax Library
3 From the Add menu, type the document
number of the document you want to
replace or append to, and press ENTER.
4 Type r (Replace) or a (Append) and
press ENTER.
To delete a document in the fax library

screen.
2 Select the document that you want to
delete by doing one of the following:
To delete one document, use the

arrow keys to select a document
listed on the Fax Library screen.
To delete multiple documents, select

the documents by pressing the
SPACEBAR in the unnamed field to
the left of the Doc # field. The *
(asterisk) character appears in this
field, indicating that it is selected.
(To deselect a document, move the
cursor to this field and press SPACEBAR.)
3 Press F7 and type y to confirm.
Continued
397
To trim the top of a fax document

screen.
2 In the Trim top of documents field,
type the applicable trim amount in hundredths of an inch. For example, type
100, which equals 1 inch (2.54 centimeters).
Fax Library screen

F A X
Fax library ID:
Fax voice menu:
L I B R A R Y
$_FAXLIB
0:00
Cover sheet logo: $

Doc # Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* $
Cover Sheet
0:00
290
03/20/99
$01
0:00
9
03/18/99
$02
Services/Rates
0:00
125
03/20/99
Selection Lists the documents used with fax-ondemand. Press SPACEBAR to select and deselect
a document (* indicates the document you select).
Description Accepts descriptions of fax-ondemand documents. The description appears onscreen and in fax reports. You can add a description during or after adding documents. Use the
description for each document in the fax catalog.
398
Trim top of documents Controls how much

vertical space is trimmed from the top of a document added to the fax library. The originating fax
machine's sender information, or TTI line, is
removed.
Transmitted faxes include the TTI line at the top of
each faxed page. This information should be
trimmed from faxed documents that are added
to the system. Type a trim amount in hundredths
of an inch. For example, if you enter 100, this
equals 1 inch (or 2.54 cm).
Changing the fax library menu
When you add documents to your fax

library, the system automatically builds a
fax library menu. The system updates the
fax library menu whenever you add documents to or delete them from the fax library.
The menu lists all the documents in the
library, except for those hidden by using $
(dollar sign) and those without a recorded
name.
When callers reach the fax library, the menu
tells them how to request documents.
Make sure that each document you want
available to callers has a recorded name. The
system does not include documents without
recorded names in the fax library menu.
Changing the standard menu

The standard fax library menu built by the
system lists the document name and the
document number, for example, Touring
bikes, 101. You can change the standard
menu by adding the prompts for and
enter, so that callers hear For touring
bikes, enter 101. The voice fields for these
fax library prompts appear on the Voice
Prompt Editor screen, as shown on page 417.
NOTE
If you want to return to the original menu
structure, erase the recordings for the
prompts that you changed on the Voice
Prompt Editor screen.
Replacing the standard menu

You can replace the entire set of standard
menu instructions by recording new
instructions in the Fax voice menu field
on the Fax Library screen. Be sure that your
instructions mention the following:
How to request a document
How to exit the fax library menu
If you want to delete your recorded instructions and return to the standard menu
instructions, delete the recording in the
Fax voice menu field on the Fax Library
screen.
If you replace the standard menu
instructions, callers can no longer press #
to list the documents in the library.
CAUTION
To change the standard fax library menu
1 Press CTRL+P to go to the Voice Prompt

Editor screen.
2 Press F8 to scroll to the FX-Fax Library
prompt set.
3 Press PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN until you
reach the for and enter prompts.
4 Use a local connection to record for...
at the for prompt and enter... at the
enter prompt.
5 Listen to the fax library menu after
recording the prompts to confirm that
the list is correct.
See also
connection.................................................. 22
399
Creating a fax catalog
A fax catalog lists the documents available

from the fax library and presents all of your
available information in one reference document, reducing requests for information. A
fax catalog also can inform the public about
your fax-on-demand service. Callers can
request the catalog, then look it over before
ordering specific documents.
Fax catalog considerations

Keep the following considerations in mind
when preparing the original fax catalog:
Content
Include each documents name, a

short description, the number of pages
in the document, and the fax ID number that callers must enter to request
the document.
Typeface
Use a clear typeface in a size and style

that will be easy to read when faxed.
Length
Keep the length of the fax catalog short

to make it easy to use and to reduce
transmission time. If you have a short
catalog, consider incorporating it with
the fax-on-demand cover sheet. Callers then receive a fax catalog each time
they order a fax from the library.
400
To create a fax catalog
1 Prepare a paper original of the

fax catalog.
2 Fax the catalog to your fax library by performing the procedure To fax documents to the fax port on page 394.
3 Add the catalog to the fax library by performing the procedure To add documents to the fax library on page 396.
If you want callers to hear about the catalog first when they listen to the menu of
available documents, assign the fax catalog the lowest document ID number in
your library in the Doc # field on the
Fax Library screen.
Creating a custom fax-on-demand cover sheet
Fax-on-demand attaches a cover sheet to

every fax delivery sent from the fax library.
The default fax-on-demand cover sheet
contains only basic information: the recipient; the time requested; and the total number of pages, including the cover sheet. The
default cover sheet does not contain a logo
or other information that identifies the
sender.
You can add your letterhead, logo, or other

information to the fax-on-demand cover
sheet. The image resides in the fax library as
a fax library document, and the system
adds it automatically to the cover sheet.
NOTE
The voice messaging system creates separate cover sheets for fax-on-demand documents and for fax mail. Changing the faxon-demand cover sheet does not affect the
cover sheet used for fax mail.
Continued
401
CREATING A CUSTOM FAX-ON-DEMAND COVER SHEET
To create a custom fax-on-demand cover sheet
1 Prepare a paper original with the image.

The paper size can be no larger than 8.5
inches wide by 6 inches tall (for A4 paper
size: 22 cm by 15 cm) so that it does not
cut off the recipients information at the
bottom of the sheet. The logo image,
which appears at the top of the cover
sheet, can be no larger than 6 inches
wide by 4 inches tall (15 cm by 10 cm).
2 Fax the cover sheet to your fax library by
performing the procedure To fax documents to the fax port on page 394.
3 Add the cover sheet to the fax library by
performing the procedure To add documents to the fax library on page 396.
402

screen.
5 Select the cover sheet document at the
bottom of the list.
6 In the Doc # field, type one or more
dollar signs ($) before the fax number.
This places the cover sheet at the top of
the fax library document list and hides it
from fax library callers.
7 In the Cover sheet logo field, type the
document number.
CREATING A CUSTOM FAX-ON-DEMAND COVER SHEET
Fax Library screen

F A X
Fax library ID:
Fax voice menu:
L I B R A R Y
$_FAXLIB
0:00
Cover sheet logo: $

Doc # Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* $
Cover Sheet
0:00
290
03/20/99
$01
0:00
9
03/18/99
$02
Services/Rates
0:00
125
03/20/99
Doc# Accepts the identification number for a

fax-on-demand document in the fax library. Type
a unique ID of five or fewer digits.
Cover sheet logo Accepts the document number of the fax image that you want to appear on
the fax-on-demand cover sheet. This logo is different from the logo that appears on the fax mail
cover sheet. Add $ to the beginning of this ID to
make the ID internal, so callers cannot request the
logo by mistake.
403
Sending fax library documents from the console
From the system console, you can send fax

library documents and delete pending fax
document requests. The ability to send
faxes directly from the console can be useful
for:
Sending a fax document at a later date or

time (for example, to send faxes at night
when long distance tolls are less expensive)
Sending confidential material
Fulfilling requests outside of routine faxon-demand use
Broadcasting fax documents to several

locations
Sending from the console works with any

document in the fax library, including confidential faxes. The caller cannot directly
request confidential faxes through fax-ondemand (because the document numbers
start with a $). The use of undialable document numbers combined with the ability to
send faxes from the console lets you maintain document security and selectively
transmit sensitive documents.
To send a fax from the console

screen.
2 Select the document that you want to fax
and press SPACEBAR in the unnamed
field to the left of the Doc # field. The *
(asterisk) character appears in this field,
indicating that it is selected. (To deselect a
document, move the cursor to this field
and press SPACEBAR.) Repeat this step for
each document that you want to fax.
3 Press F2.
4 From the Command menu, select Send
fax and press ENTER.
5 When prompted, type the following destination information:
Phone number
Recipient information, such as the

name and extension of the person for
whom the fax is intended
Date and time to send
6 If you want, change the retry parameters. Your changes apply only to this fax.
7 Press F2 to send the fax.
404
SENDING FAX LIBRARY DOCUMENTS FROM THE CONSOLE
To cancel a fax request from the console

2 From the Command menu, select Display pending requests and press
ENTER.
3 Select the fax request that you want to
cancel, and press F7.
405
Routing callers to the fax library
If you want callers to have access to the fax

library directly from the opening greeting,
you can set up the system so that:
Callers can enter the fax library extension by using the direct-dialing option.
Callers can choose the fax library from a

one-key dialing menu by using the onekey dialing option.
You specify how callers access the fax library

by the type of ID you set in the Fax library
ID field on the Fax Library screen.
After you set up the fax library, be sure to tell
callers how they can access the fax library,
and include the fax library ID in your fax
catalog.
Direct dialing option

If you want callers to access the fax library
directly using their phones, make the fax
library ID a number that can be entered
using a phone, similar to an extension number. When callers hear the opening greeting,
they can enter the fax library ID just as they
would any extension number. If you use this
option, be sure to mention the fax library
and its extension number (the Fax library
ID) in your opening greeting.
Callers using the direct-dialing option can
request more than one document at a time
from the fax library menu.
406
One-key dialing option

If you do not want callers to access the
library directly by entering digits, make the
fax library ID a hidden ID by starting it with
the $ (dollar sign) character. Then, you can
set up a one-key dialing option in the opening greeting box to direct callers to your
library. When you record the opening greeting, be sure to tell callers which digit to
enter to reach the library.
See Using one-key dialing for fax-ondemand on page 410 for information on
how to set up a one-key dialing menu.
ROUTING CALLERS TO THE FAX LIBRARY
To set up how callers access the fax library

screen.
2 In the Fax library ID field, type the system ID for the fax library. Do one of the
following:
To let callers access the fax library

directly, type the fax library ID.
To not allow callers to access the fax

library directly, type $ (dollar sign),
and then the fax library ID.
Fax Library screen

F A X
Fax library ID:
Fax voice menu:
L I B R A R Y
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Fax library ID Accepts the system ID for the fax

library used with fax-on-demand.
407
Setting up automatic fax transmittal
You can send callers a single fax library document automatically from any type of
transaction box that has an Action field.
This includes subscriber pages, transaction
boxes, and interview boxes. When callers
reach this box, the voice messaging system
automatically requests the callers fax number and sends the fax library document that
you entered in the Action field with the
GotoID--> value.
In the Day or Night action field, enter
the document ID number, preceded by a
tilde (~). The tilde identifies the number as a
fax library document, rather than a system
ID. For example, if you typed ~1432 in the
Day or Night action field, the voice messaging system would automatically select
document number 1432 from the fax
library, and ask the caller what phone number to fax the document to. A caller can
receive only a single fax document in this
manner.
You can also transmit hidden fax documents in this way by placing the tilde in
front of the $ character; for example,
~$123.
408
To set up automatic fax transmittal
1 Go to the page that has the Action field

set to GotoID-->. This can be any personal directory page, transaction box, or
interview box.
2 Move the cursor to the Day or Night
action field. If GotoID--> has not been
entered, type g and press ENTER.
3 In the field to the right of the Day or
Night action field, type a tilde (~) and
the fax library document number and
press ENTER. For example, type ~123.
4 If you want, rerecord the box greeting so
that it mentions the fax option.
NOTE
If you add or remove a fax library document
after you set up automatic fax transmittal,
repeat this procedure so that the voice messaging system will update the fax library
menu to offer the new documents and not
offer the deleted ones.
SETTING UP AUTOMATIC FAX TRANSMITTAL

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Day? Yes 123
| Day: 0:01 | Day: GotoID--> ~02
Nite? Yes 456
| Nite: 0:01 | Nite: GotoID--> ~02
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Fax 3
413
One-key delay:
Action (Day or Night) Accepts a value for the

take after playing the greeting. For automatic fax
transmittal, type g (GotoID-->), and then type
the fax document ID preceded by a tilde (~).
409
Using one-key dialing for fax-on-demand
You can use one-key dialing menus to give

callers the option of requesting a fax library
document at any time while they are in the
voice messaging system. For example, you
could offer callers the choice of either waiting on hold or having information faxed
directly to them.
One-key dialing lets you integrate fax-ondemand with the other voice messaging
options available to callers. You may want to
use one-key dialing menus in addition to
letting callers reach the fax library from the
opening greeting. Or you may want to use
these menus to limit access to the library.
NOTE
To enable callers to be routed directly to a
specific fax library document, see Setting
up automatic fax transmittal on page 408.
Suggestions for using one-key dialing

You can use one-key dialing to route callers
to a fax library document from any transaction box in the voice messaging system.
Other ways you can use one-key dialing
include:
Offer an alternative to holding
Let callers choose between holding for
service or receiving a fax library document. For example, a restaurant with
take-out service could let callers hold, or
receive a fax of the take-out menu.
Offer an alternative to leaving a
message
Callers who simply want information
may prefer to receive a fax library document rather than leave a message.
Offer an option in any announcement
or greeting
Letting callers request a document can
help reduce subsequent calls for information.
Offer an option at the end of an
interview box
After callers complete an automated
interview, they may appreciate the
option of receiving additional information.
See also
Building fax library menus with one-key
dialing ....................................................... 412
410
USING ONE-KEY DIALING FOR FAX-ON-DEMAND
To set up one-key dialing for a fax-on demand document
1 Go to the transaction box in which you

want to offer the option.
2 In the one-key dialing menu, type ~
(tilde) followed by the fax library document number.
3 Rerecord the transaction boxs greeting
to tell the caller about the option. Be
sure to tell the caller which digit to enter
to receive the document. When the
caller selects the option, the system
automatically selects the document
from the fax library and asks the caller to
enter a fax machine number. See Making a recording on page 428.
NOTES
If you add or remove fax library documents after you set up one-key dialing,
repeat the procedure To set up one-key
dialing for a fax-on-demand document, on this page, so that the voice
messaging system will update the fax
library menu to offer the new documents and not offer the deleted ones.
A caller who selects the option to receive

a fax through a one-key dialing menu
can choose only one document. The
system disconnects the call after scheduling the selected document for delivery.

D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Voice name: 0:01
Language: US
Schedule #: 1
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Day? Yes 123
| Day: 0:01 | Day: GotoID--> ~02
Nite? Yes 456
| Nite: 0:01 | Nite: GotoID--> ~02
|
|
90 sec
Intro: 0:00
Holding? No |
| Edits OK? Yes
Gather ID intro
: 0:00
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1->
2->
3->
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
Name:
System ID:
Fax 3
413
One-key delay:
One-key dialing fields Accepts a system ID to

route callers to after they enter a digit. The voice
messaging system listens for one-key dialing
entries during the greeting and during the goodbye prompt.
411
Building fax library menus with one-key dialing
If you have numerous documents in your

fax library, a long menu may cause callers
to become impatient and hang up before
finding the document they want. By setting
up a series of short submenus, with documents grouped by topic or subject, you can
make your fax library more usable and
accessible to callers with different needs.
You can easily build a main menu and submenus by using transaction boxes and their
one-key dialing menus. The expanded
menus you build replace the standard fax
library menu built by the system, so callers
no longer hear the standard menu when
they reach the library.
For example, the illustration on page 413
shows a main menu and two submenus.
There is a $SALES transaction box that lists
only those documents about the companys
products, and a $SERVICE transaction box
for documents about the companys repair
services. The same fax library document
can appear in more than one special menu,
and so the same document could appear in
both the $SALES and $SERVICE transaction
boxes if desired.
See also
Setting up automatic fax transmittal...... 408
Using one-key dialing for fax-on-demand ..410
412
To create a menu that callers hear, record an

appropriate set of instructions in each
transaction box greeting. The instructions
for the main menu transaction box must tell
callers which digit to enter to access each
submenu. The instructions for submenu
transaction boxes must tell callers which
document they will receive if they enter a
particular digit. Be sure each transaction
boxs instructions match the one-key dialing options you set up for that box.
NOTES
When setting up the one-key dialing
options for the fax library submenus,
you may want to reserve the 9 digit for
the fax librarys main menu and 0 for the
operator.
Callers may find it reassuring to hear a

confirmation that they selected the correct document after entering a digit.
Instead of having the one-key dialing
option send the caller directly to the fax
library document, have it send the caller
to another transaction box. Record an
introduction to the document, then set
the Day or Night action fields (by
using the GotoID--> action code) to
route them to the document.
BUILDING FAX LIBRARY MENUS WITH ONE-KEY DIALING
Name:
System ID:
Main menu transaction box

$MAIN
Greeting
Name:
System ID:
For Sales, enter 1. For repair services, enter 2.
One-key dialing
1=$Sales 2=$Service 3=
6=
7=
8=
4=
9=
Sales submenu box

$SALES
5=
0=Operator
Name:
System ID:
Repair Services submenu box

$SERVICE
Greeting
Greeting
For a list of products, enter 1. For an order form, enter 2.

To return to the main menu, enter 9. To reach the operator,
enter 0.
For a list of available services, enter 1. For locations, enter 2.

For an order form, enter 3. To return to the main menu, enter
9. To reach the operator, enter 0.
One-key dialing
1=~101
2=~102
6=
7=
One-key dialing
1=~201
2=~202
6=
7=
3=
8=
4=
9=$MAIN
5=
0=Operator
3=~102
8=
4=
9=$MAIN
5=
0=Operator
A System IDs
Use the $ (dollar sign) symbol to keep the
system IDs in your fax library hidden. If
you want to let callers access the fax
library directly, make the system ID for
the main menu transaction box a number that can be entered by phone.
B Greeting
The greeting for each transaction box
must let callers know where they are and
tell them how to access the information
they want.
C One-key dialing
You can use one-key dialing menus to
route callers to submenu transaction
boxes or to fax library documents.
Confirm that all of your one-key dialing
menus are set up correctly.
D Document numbers
The document numbers in the one-key
dialing menus must be preceded by
a ~ (tilde). You can use the same document in as many transaction boxes as
you want. For example, callers can
request an order form, shown here as
document number ~102, from either the
Sales or the Repair Services submenu
transaction boxes.
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414
C H A P T E R 1 6
Voice prompts
The system conversation ................................. 416

System conversation design............................ 418
Location of system prompts............................ 422
Setting up on-hold prompts ........................... 424
Listening to a recording .................................. 427
Making a recording.......................................... 428
Copying or appending a recording
to a voice field .................................................. 429
Deleting recordings and prompts .................. 431
Backing up a recording ................................... 432
Recovering recordings and prompts.............. 433
CHAPTER 16: VOICE PROMPTS
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The system conversation
The voice of the voice messaging system

consists of digital recordings of hundreds of
words and sentences. Spoken by the system,
these recordings are called prompts.
Prompts tell callers what action to take or
what is happening as they progress through
the system. The system connects prompts
with recorded names and greetings to create the conversations the system conducts
with a caller.
The Voice Prompt Editor screen groups the
majority of the prompts together in one
accessible place. There are several hundred
prompts listed. On this screen, you can
review or change any of these prompts.
Related prompts are grouped together in
prompt sets. For example, the first prompt
set contains prompts that are used in the
systems conversation relating to looking up
subscribers by name in directory assistance.
System prompts are flexible. Notice that different prompts can be recorded for day and
night schedules, and prompts can be different for each port or group of ports. This flexibility can be used to create a system that
speaks more than one language, or handles two different departmentseven two
different establishmentswithin one system.
To find a specific prompt, select one of the
prompt names on the left side of the Voice
Prompt Editor screen. To begin a search,
press CTRL+J.
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Overview of changing the system

conversation
1 Understand the system conversation
design.
See System conversation design, on
page 418.
2 Identify the prompt number or screen
location for each recording you want
to change.
See Location of system prompts, on
page 422, and refer to the System Conversation Guide on the voice messaging
compact disc.
3 Establish a local connection.
See Establishing and terminating a local
connection, on page 22.
4 Locate the voice field whose recording
you want to change.
See Location of system prompts, on
page 422.
5 Make a new recording.
See Making a recording, on page 428.
6 Terminate the local connection.
See Establishing and terminating a local
connection, on page 22.
THE SYSTEM CONVERSATION

V O I C E
P R O M P T
E D I T O R
Language: US-US
All Ports Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 4
PROMPT SET: DR-Directory
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
|----------------|-----|----|----|----|----
1 Please enter the first thr
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <2 Please enter the letters n
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <3 You may enter the extensio
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <4 To stop the directory, ent
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <5 There are no matches to th
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <6 To try another name, enter
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <7 Im sorry, directory assis
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <8 This directory will help y
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <9 End of...
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <10 To start the list again, e
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <11 To hear the list again, en
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <12 Extension...
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <13 For...
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <-
417
System conversation design
Prompts and other sound recordings played

by phone are stored in screen areas called
voice fields. The system uses the contents of
voice fields to create a conversation with a
caller.
When you customize your system conversation, you want to maintain the natural flow
of the conversation. To do this, you need to
understand how the different parts of the
conversation work together. Sound recordings used by the system fall into three general categories: greetings, voice names, and
prompts and phrases.
Greetings
A greeting is the recording that is played
when a call is routed to a box. The opening
greeting plays when an external call is
routed to the opening box. Subscribers can
record their own greetings for their voice
mailboxes. The system manager or mailbox
owner can record greetings for other boxes,
such as transaction boxes, interview boxes,
voice detect boxes, and the operator box.
Voice names
Voice names, or Names, identify a subscriber, guest, or group of subscribers to a
caller. These are simply recordings of individuals speaking their names (or a groups
name).
See also
Online PDF: System Conversation Guide
Moving within a screen.............................. 25
418
SYSTEM CONVERSATION DESIGN
Prompts and phrases

A phrase is a set of instructions that tells the
system which prompts to play at a particular point in the conversation. A prompt is
the recording the system plays, telling a
caller what action to take or what is happening to his or her call.
Each phrase in the system conversation has
a name. For example, when the system
gives the subscriber the option to check
new messages, the subscriber hears:
Would you like to check [it/them]?
The phrase name that identifies this question is PH_Chk_WouldLikeToCheck. One of
the instructions in the phrase tells the system to check the number of messages the
subscriber has. If there is one new message,
the phrase instructs the system to play
prompt SL050: Would you like to check it?
If there is more than one new message, the
phrase instructs the system to play prompt
SL051: Would you like to check them?
The same prompt can be used at several

different points in the conversation. That is,
the same prompt can be used by more than
one phrase. Before rerecording a prompt
used by more than one phrase, listen to the
way in which the prompt is used in each
instance.
The voice messaging system contains hundreds of prompts. For convenience,
prompts relating to a specific part of the
conversation are grouped into prompt sets.
Each prompt set is identified by a two-letter
code (for example, DR for directory). Each
individual prompt is made up of a twoletter code and a three-digit number (001).
A table of system conversation prompt set
codes can be found on page 420.
Continued
419
The following table lists each prompt set

that appears in this guide by its two-letter
code.
System conversation prompt sets
Prompt set Screen name
Description
DR
Directory
Automatic or numeric directory assistance
DS
Delivery Schedules
Message delivery schedules
DT
Date & Time
Date and time stamps
EM
E-mail
Prompts for the E-Mail Integration package
ER
Error Messages
Voice messaging system error messages
FB
Fax Box
Prompts for the fax box; available only with the

optional ActiveFax package
FM
Fax Mail
Prompts for fax mail; available only with the optional

ActiveFax package
FX
Fax Library
Prompts for the fax library; available only with the

optional ActiveFax package
GI
Gather ID
Prompts for phone or account number entry
GL
Global
Prompts used throughout the conversation
GR
Group Maintain
Prompts for changing message groups
HA
Hotel Administration Prompts for maintaining the optional Hospitality

package
HB
Hotel Box
Prompts for hotel guest voice mailboxes; available

only with the optional Hospitality package
HD
Holding
Call holding
HG
Hotel Guest
Prompts for hotel guest conversation; available only

with the optional Hospitality package
HL
Hotel Language
Prompts for multilingual hotel guest voice messaging

systems; available only with the optional Hospitality
package
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System conversation prompt sets, continued

Prompt set Screen name
Description
HP
Hotel PMS
Prompts for hotel property management systems;

available only with the optional Hospitality package
IN
Integration
Prompts available only with the OAI integration
MB
Message Box
Prompts for callers reaching a subscribers mailbox
ME
Menus
Prompts for menu mode
NM
Numbers
Numbers for time; e-mail and voice message totals;

appointment, task, and fax totals; group and guest
totals; and e-mail body size
NT
Network
Prompts available only with the optional Multisite

Messaging package
SC
Speech Recognition
Prompts available only with the optional Speech

Recognition package
SD
Special Delivery
Prompts for urgent, private, receipts, and future

delivery options
SL
Subscriber Listen
Prompts for subscribers listening to messages
SM
System Manager
Prompts for resetting mailboxes
SP
Subscriber Options
Prompts for setup options
SR
Subscriber Record
Prompts for subscribers recording messages
SS
Subscriber Setup
Prompts for enrolling subscribers
SY
System Administrator System manager conversation
VC
ViewCall
Prompts available only with the optional ViewCall

Plus package
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Location of system prompts
Each system prompt is accessed through a

voice field on a system screen. Voice fields
are located on several of the system screens.
The majority of the voice fields for prompts
are stored on the Voice Prompt Editor
screen. The voice fields for recordings that
are not prompts, such as recorded names,
transaction box greetings, and interview
box questions, are stored on the appropriate
Personal Directory screen, Groups screen,
or Transaction Directory screen. The voice
fields for the opening greeting prompts are
stored on Application screen page 3. The
voice fields for the operator box appear on
If a prompts voice field does not contain a

recording, the field displays a left arrow
(<). If an arrow appears in the All Ports Nt
column, the voice messaging system plays
the prompt that appears in the All Ports Day
column. When prompts appear in other columns, the voice messaging system decides
which prompt to play based on the following priority:
On the Voice Prompt Editor screen, the letters QP next to a prompt name stand for
QuickPlay. This feature speeds the system
conversation, which helps the conversation
play more naturally. When you rerecord a
prompt, the system removes the QP designation. When you restart the system, the
system automatically converts the newly
recorded prompts to QuickPlay prompts.
Only the prompts in the All Ports Day column can be indexed for QuickPlay.
1st priority: Port n Nt prompt
2nd priority: Port n Day prompt
3rd priority: All Ports Nt prompt
4th priority: All Ports Day prompt
If a prompts voice field contains a recording, that field displays a number. The number represents how many seconds the
recording lasts. Prompts lasting longer than
9 seconds display >9 in this field.
Depending on the voice field you select, you
can record prompts to be played:
On all ports at all times.
Only during day mode or night mode.
Only on certain ports.
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Day mode
1st priority: Port n Day prompt
2nd priority: All Ports Day prompt
Night mode
LOCATION OF SYSTEM PROMPTS

V O I C E
P R O M P T
E D I T O R
Language: US-US
All Ports Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 4
PROMPT SET: HD-Holding
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
|----------------|-----|----|----|----|--14 You are fifth in line
QP <<-<<-<<-<<-<15 You are sixth in line
QP <<-<<-<<-<<-<16 You are seventh in line
QP <<-<<-<<-<<-<-

language in which the prompts are recorded.
Prompt set Shows you the name of the prompt
set displayed. The column on the left displays the
number of each prompt.
All ports Day/Nt Contains voice fields for
prompts played for all ports during day mode and
night mode.
Port n Day/Nt Contains voice fields for
prompts the system plays only on that port (n represents the port number), and only during day
mode or night mode.
QP Indicates the status of the prompt, typically
QP (Quick Play).
Prompt set description Gives the text of each

prompt. If you have rerecorded a system prompt,
this description may no longer be accurate. If you
change a recording, you may also want to change
the text in this field to match the text of the
recording. If you do not change the description, it
will continue to display the text of the original system prompt.
Voice fields Use these fields to access the
prompt's recording. Prompts are listed in columns
under day mode and night mode. Prompts in the
All Ports column are played on all ports, unless
there is a prompt on the same row under the column Port 1, Port 2, etc.
Voice Prompt Editor screen shortcuts

To
Press
Go to the Voice Prompt Editor screen
CTRL+P
Go to the previous page in the prompt set
PAGE UP
Go to the next page in the prompt set
PAGE DOWN
Go to the beginning of the prompt set
HOME
Go to the end of the prompt set
END
Go to a prompt number
CTRL+J, type the complete prompt number,

and press ENTER
Display prompts for additional ports
CTRL+PAGE DOWN
Display a different language (if you have a

multilingual system)
F7
Go to the next prompt set
F8
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Setting up on-hold prompts
The music-on-hold prompts can contain

music of your choice, promotional messages, or information about your use of call
holding.
The system has 10 prompts available for
playing music to callers second in line or
farther back in the holding queue. The first
caller in the queue is on hold with the
phone system, rather than with the voice
messaging system, and hears the music-onhold provided by the phone system. The
music-on-hold prompt numbers are HD023
through HD032, located in the Holding
(HD) prompt set.
The first music-on-hold prompt comes with
your system. It contains piano music by
Mozart. You can use the Mozart prompt and
the remaining music-on-hold prompt numbers to record additional music-on-hold
prompts. See Making a recording, on
page 428.
If you record multiple music-on-hold
prompts, the system cycles through the
prompts. When the voice messaging system
finishes playing one music-on-hold
prompt, it asks the caller whether he or she
wants to continue to hold, then plays the
next music-on-hold prompt in the series.
See also
Controlling the call-holding message
cycle ...................................................... 460
424
When recording music-on-hold prompts,

note that the length of the prompt determines the length of the message holding
cycle for the caller who is second in line or
farther back. Prompts between 20 and 60
seconds in length work well. If the musicon-hold prompts are too short, the caller
will be asked too frequently to press a key to
remain on hold. If the prompts are too long,
the caller may get tired of holding and hang
up.
The length of the message cycle for callers
who are first in line in the holding queue is
controlled by fields on line 16 of the Switch
Setup screen page 2. Perform the procedure
To set up the message holding cycle for the
caller who is first in line on page 425 to set
the length of time that the voice messaging
system lets the first caller remain on hold
before asking if the caller wants to keep
holding, leave a message, or try another
extension.
For additional callers in the queue, the message cycle is determined by the length of
each of the 10 music-on-hold prompts. Perform the procedure To set up the holdtime message cycle for callers who are farther back in the queue on page 426 to set
up the system for this situation.
SETTING UP ON-HOLD PROMPTS
To set up the message holding cycle for the caller who is first in line
1 Go to line 16 on Switch Setup screen

page 2.
2 In the Number tries between TT
checks field, type the number of times
that you want the voice messaging system to try to transfer a call before checking back with the caller, and press
ENTER.
3 In the Extra hold time between tries

field, type the time, in 10ths of a second,
that you want the voice messaging system to wait before trying to transfer a
call, and press ENTER.
NOTE
The actual time that a caller waits is the
value in the Extra hold time between tries
field multiplied by the value in the Number tries between TT checks field, plus a
few seconds.
ENTER.

14. LCD refresh interval:
15. Max lines holding total:
16. Number tries between TT checks:
Max lines holding for ext:

Extra hold time between tries:
Number tries between TT checks Specifies

the number of times that the voice messaging system tries to transfer a call before checking back
with the caller. The recommended setting is 4
times.
Extra hold time between tries Specifies the

time, in 10ths of a second, that the voice messaging system waits before trying to transfer a call.
The recommended setting is 50 (5 seconds).
Continued
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SETTING UP ON-HOLD PROMPTS
To set up the hold-time message cycle for callers

who are farther back in the queue
1 Press Ctrl+P to go to the Voice Prompt

Editor screen.
2 Press F8 to go to the holding (HD)
prompt set, and press PAGE DOWN to
locate the music-on-hold prompts.
3 Because the first music-on-hold prompt
is already recorded, record the other
nine prompts with music or promotional messages. See Making a recording, on page 428.

V O I C E
P R O M P T
E D I T O R
Language: US-US
All Ports Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 4
PROMPT SET: HD-Holding
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
Day Nt
|---|||||
22 Im sorry the line is no l
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <23 <Hold music 0>
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <24 <Hold music 1>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <25 <Hold music 2>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <26 <Hold music 3>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <27 <Hold music 4>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <28 <Hold music 5>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <29 <Hold music 6>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <30 <Hold music 7>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <31 <Hold music 8>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <32 <Hold music 9>
<- <<- <<- <<- <<- <33 If youd like to hold, ple
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <34 To continue to hold, pleas
QP <<- <<- <<- <<- <-
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Listening to a recording
You can listen to any recording in the system, including a recording you have just
made.
To listen to a recording

2 Move the cursor to the field that contains the recording you want to listen to.
3 Press F10 to play the recording.
NOTE
If you want to stop the recording before
it finishes playing, press END.
See also
connection.................................................. 22
427
Making a recording
The system manager can make a new

recording or rerecord an existing recording.
A new recording replaces an existing recording, even if the new one is shorter.
Changing the meaning of prompts may

hinder callers from fully using the voice
messaging system. Use words that are synonymous with the original wording. Touchtones and the design of other conversational features are not altered by rerecording prompts.
To make a recording
5 Press F10 to listen to your recording.
2 Go to the screen that contains the voice

field whose recording you want to
change, select that voice field, and then
press F9.
6 Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each

recording you want to add or change.
3 Press the SPACEBAR to start recording.

After the beep, speak into the phone
handset.
4 When you are finished, press the SPACEBAR to stop. The length of the recording
appears in seconds in the voice field.
NOTE
Recordings that last more than 9 seconds are indicated by > 9.
See also
connection.................................................. 22
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7 When you are finished, terminate the

local connection.
NOTE
You can change the text after the prompts
number to match the new recording for the
prompt. If you do not change the description, it will continue to display the text of
the original system prompt.
Copying or appending a recording to

a voice field
You can copy a recording to a voice field or

append a recording to the end of an existing
recording. If you copy a recording to a voice
field, the new recording replaces the
recording already in the voice field. See the
first procedure, To copy or append a
recording to a voice field.
You can add a beep to the end of a recording to tell the caller when to begin speaking.
See the second procedure, To append a
beep.
You can copy silence to a recording to
replace the recording. Appending silence to
the end of a recording is useful for recordings that ask a caller to press a key. Appending silence at the end of the prompt, rather
than just pausing, usually results in a
higher-quality recording. See the procedure
To copy or append silence to a recording
on page 430.
NOTE
If you are copying or appending a recording
that is currently in another voice field, you
must first copy the recording to a file before
you can copy or append it to a new prompt
field.
To copy or append a recording to a voice field

field you want to copy or append a
recording to, select that voice field, and
press F2.
2 From the Command menu, select
Copy and press ENTER.
3 From the Copy menu, select Into current field and press ENTER.
4 Type the full path and file name of the
file you want to copy or append and
press ENTER. (If you are copying from a
compact disc or floppy disk, include the
drive letter.)
5 If a recording already exists in this field,
type r to replace the recording or a
to append the recording to the existing
recording.
To append a beep

field that you want to append a beep to,
select that voice field, and press F2.
4 Type beep and press ENTER.
See also
Backing up a recording ............................ 432
5 Type a to append the beep to the end

of the recording.
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COPYING OR APPENDING A RECORDING TO A VOICE FIELD
To copy or append silence to a recording
1 Go to the screen that you want to copy or

append silence to, select that voice field,
and press F2.
4 Type silence and press ENTER.
5 If the voice field already contains a
recording, the voice messaging system
asks if you want to replace or append the
recording. Type r to replace the
recording with silence, or type a to
append silence to the end of the recording.
NOTE
This procedure copies or appends 1 second
of silence. For a longer pause, repeat the
procedure until you append as many seconds of silence as you want.
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Deleting recordings and prompts
If you delete a customized recording, you

cannot recover it unless you previously
backed it up. You can, however, recover system prompts that are provided with the
Because many system prompts are played
in several places in the voice messaging system conversation, deleting a system
prompt can create system errors. Determine where else in the conversation a
prompt plays before you delete it. In particular, do not delete any system prompts that
request pressing a key (for example, DR006,
which states Press 1 to try another name).
To delete a recording
1 Select the voice field whose recording

you want to delete, and press DELETE.
To delete a prompt
1 Move the cursor to the voice field for the

prompt you want to delete.
2 Back up the prompt to a disk. See the
procedure To back up a customized
3 Copy over the prompt with silence. See
the procedure To copy or append
silence to a recording on page 430.
Copying silence into the prompt lets the
system conversation play smoothly.
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Backing up a recording
Back up your customized recordings by

copying them to a disk.
To back up a customized recording
1 Move the cursor to the voice field that

contains the recording you want to back
up, and press F2.
3 From the Copy menu, select Out to a
file and press ENTER.
4 Type a full path and file name and press
ENTER. (If you are backing up to a disk,
include the drive letter; for example,
a:\daygrt).
See also
Recovering recordings and prompts ...... 433
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Recovering recordings and prompts
You can easily recover customized recordings that you have backed up on disk.
If you have deleted or recorded over a system prompt and you want to recover the
original version, you can retrieve it from the
compact disc that contains the voice messaging system software.
Most system prompts are stored on the
compact disc in the Prompt\Full directory.
This directory contains one subdirectory
for each language that system prompts
have been translated into. For example, the
files for U.S. English are stored in the
Prompt\Full\US directory.
The files for the Hospitality prompts are
stored in the Prompt\Hvm directory.
See also
Shutting down and restarting the system ....28
Location of system prompts ................... 422
To recover backed up recordings
1 Select the voice field whose recording

you want to recover, and press F2.
4 Type the name of the file you want to
recover and press ENTER. (If you are
copying from a disk, include the drive
letter.)
5 If a recording already exists in this field,
type r to replace the recording, or type
a to append the recording to the end of
the existing one.
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RECOVERING RECORDINGS AND PROMPTS
To recover the default system prompts
1 Identify the prompt you want to recover

by using the System Conversation Guide
on the voice messaging compact disc.
You need the prompts file name, including the two-letter prompt set code and
three-digit prompt number.
2 Exit the voice messaging software.
3 Insert the voice messaging compact disc
into the CD-ROM drive.
4 On the compact disc, locate the prompt
set that contains the prompt you want to
recover.
5 At the command prompt, change to the
directory on drive C where you want to
put the recovered prompt, for example,
C:\Prompt\US.
6 Type
XCOPY \s\e prompt\US<prompt
file name>
For example, to recover the U.S. English

prompt DR001, type
COPY F:\Prompt\US\DR\DR001
and press ENTER.
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7 Delete the files Qp.avk and Qp.idx.

Qp.avk contains the prompts played by
the voice messaging system. When you
restart the voice messaging system, this
file and the corresponding index file,
Qp.idx, are automatically rebuilt.
CAUTION If you do not delete Qp.avk
and Qp.idx, the voice messaging system
continues to play the previous versions
of these prompts.
8 Restart the voice messaging software.

The voice messaging system takes a few
minutes longer than usual to start
because it must rebuild the Qp.avk and
Qp.idx files.
C H A P T E R 1 7
Phone
integration
setup
Switch Setup screen page 1 overview............ 436
Limiting the number of ports on hold ........... 459
Phone system options ..................................... 438
Controlling the call-holding message

cycle.................................................................. 460
Special dialing characters................................ 439

Setting up constant message count .............. 462
Selecting integration options ......................... 440
Switch Setup screen page 3 overview ........... 464
Using an outdial access number..................... 447
Testing call progress ....................................... 466
Redirecting extension numbers...................... 449
Changing the voice detection setting ........... 470
Other phone system options .......................... 452
Switch Setup screen page 4 overview ........... 472
Switch Setup screen page 2 overview............ 454
Setting up live record...................................... 474
Changing message waiting indicator and
touchtone settings ........................................... 456
Enabling callers to send cut-through

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Switch Setup screen page 1 overview
This chapter covers how to use parameters

on the four pages of the Switch Setup
screen. The Switch Setup screen pages 1, 2,
3, and 4 contain the settings that enable
your phone system to integrate with the
voice messaging system, and allow use of
additional voice messaging system features.
The basic integration between the phone
system and the voice messaging system is
set up using procedures in Chapter 6 of the
Installation Guide, a phone system Integration Guide (if applicable to your system),
and your phone system manufacturers documentation. Additional voice messaging
system features, such as live record, easy
message access, identified subscriber messaging, and trunk mapping for transaction
boxes, are also set up using parameters on
the Switch Setup screens.
See also
Installation Guide: Setting up the phone
system, in Chapter 6
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Switch Setup screen page 1, the first of the

four Switch Setup screens, provides phone
system selection and the ability to set many
different integration options for voice messaging system features.
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1. Switch: DEFAULTS
Default parameters
DEFAULTS
2. Integration options: F1 CR,,,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay: 450
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
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Phone system options
The voice messaging systems switch setup

library contains predefined parameters for
integrating the voice messaging system with
most phone systems.
When you first set up the voice messaging

system, use the following procedure to
select your phone system from the choices
offered in the switch setup library in the
Switch field on Switch Setup screen
page 1.
To select your phone system
4 When the selection matches your phone

system, type y.

page 1.
2 In the Switch field, type the first few
characters of your phone system manufacturers name (for example, type mit
for Mitel), and press ENTER.
3 Type y to select the phone system that
is offered, or type n to display the next
match.
If the choices offered in the switch setup

library do not include your phone system, type def to use the default phone
system.
you Are you sure you want to initialize
all switch parameters?, type y.

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Default parameters
DEFAULTS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay: 450
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
Switch Accepts the first three letters of the

phone system manufacturer's name. Type y to
select the phone system offered or type n to display the next match. Type y to confirm a selection.
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Special dialing characters
You can include the following special characters in phone numbers dialed by the
These characters affect how the voice messaging system dials these phone numbers.
Special dialing characters

Character Description
X
The voice messaging system inserts a subscribers extension ID at this point in

the dialing sequence. Use this code only when the subscribers extension ID is
the same as the phone extension you want the voice messaging system to dial.
The voice messaging system pauses for 1 second while dialing. To adjust the
length of the pause systemwide for the voice messaging system, type , in the
Dialout pause field on Switch Setup screen page 2.
The voice messaging system pauses for 3 seconds while dialing. To adjust the
length of the pause systemwide for the voice messaging system, type ; in the
Dialout pause field on Switch Setup screen page 2.
&
The voice messaging system completes a hookflash (go on hook, then off
hook). This character is commonly used to access special features on the
phone system. To adjust the length of time that the voice messaging system is
on and off systemwide, type & in the Hookflash field on Switch Setup
screen page 2.
The voice messaging system completes a longer hookflash than what the &
character causes, and then goes off hook. On some voice messaging systems,
having an active hookflash is equivalent to disconnecting and reinstating a call
and is used for recall. To adjust the length of time that the voice messaging
system is on and off systemwide, type % in the Hookflash field on Switch
The voice messaging system uses pulse dialing. To use pulse dialing
systemwide, type P before all dial-out phone numbers.
The voice messaging system disconnects. This character is useful when the call
is not meant to go to completion (for example, message delivery to a pager).
The voice messaging system uses tone dialing. Use this character only when a
number must be dialed as pulse, then switched midway to tone (for example, a
credit card call on a pulse exchange).
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Selecting integration options
Integration options let you control the

number of different voice messaging system
features that are implemented. The Integration options field on Switch Setup
screen page 1 is not limited to just one
value. It accepts a string of values, allowing
you to make multiple selections. Each value
in the field is separated from the following
value by a space.
You can set up options to:
Activate general tone detection. See the

procedure To activate general tone
detection on this page.
Set up trunk mapping. See To assign a

range of phone lines, or trunks, to a particular transaction box on page 442.
Set up identified subscriber messaging.

See To set up identified subscriber messaging on page 443.
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Activating general tone detection

If you activate the general tone detection
feature, the voice messaging system listens
for busy, reorder, and dial tone at all times.
The voice messaging system also checks for
dial tone before it dials out to deliver messages or to light message waiting lamps.
Activate general tone detection when your
phone system does not have immediate disconnect, to prevent calls from colliding during dialout, and to prevent phantom calls,
which occur when callers disconnect immediately before being transferred.
To activate general tone detection

page 1.
dt (Dial tone detection) and press
ENTER.
SELECTING INTEGRATION OPTIONS
Setting up trunk mapping

With certain phone systems, you can set up
the voice messaging system to route calls
from different external lines to different
transaction boxes, including opening, language selection, and personal message
boxes. You set up the system by defining
ranges of trunks and assigning each range
to a box. As many as 20 different ranges can
be specified and assigned to different transaction boxes.
To set up trunk mapping, add a code to the
Integration options field using the format:
tm<first trunk><last
trunk>=<box ID>
With trunk mapping, one company can

share the voice messaging system and
phone system with another company. This
feature can be useful for small companies
or one-person offices that occupy the same
office complex and that may share some
administrative services.
For example, suppose two companies, A

and B, have decided to share the phone and
voice messaging system. They appoint one
system manager who works with the phone
technician to set up trunks 1, 2, and 3 of the
four incoming trunks on the phone system
for Company A, and set up Company As
opening greeting in transaction box 987.
The technician and system manager set up
Company B to use the fourth trunk on the
phone system, and set up its opening greeting in transaction box 654.
The system manager then maps Company
As trunks to its transaction box with the
code TM13=987 and Company Bs trunk to
its transaction box with the code TM4
4=654. Calls coming in on each companys
trunks are automatically routed to that
companys opening greeting.
To set up trunk mapping, see the procedure
To assign a range of phone lines, or trunks,
to a particular transaction box on
page 442.
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To assign a range of phone lines, or trunks, to a

particular transaction box
1 In the Transaction Directory, find the

system ID of the transaction box, or
boxes, to which you want to assign
phone lines. Write down the transaction
box IDs to use in step 3.
tm<first trunk>-<last
trunk>=<system ID>
where <first trunk> is the number of the

first phone line in the range, <last trunk> is
the number of the last phone line in the
range, and <system ID> is the system ID of
the transaction box to which you want to
assign phone lines.
For example, to map phone lines 1, 2, and 3
to a transaction box with the system ID 987,
type
tm1-3=987
4 To assign a phone line to more than one

transaction box, add another string for
the second trunk (separate the strings
with a space.) For example:
tm1-3=987 tm4-6=988
5 Press ENTER.
6 Restart the voice messaging system for
the new configuration to take effect.
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Setting up identified subscriber

messaging
Identified subscriber messaging lets
internal callers leave subscriber messages
when their calls are forwarded to the voice
messaging system.
To set up identified subscriber messaging,
see To set up identified subscriber messaging on page 443. The identified subscriber
messaging options are further described in
the table on page 443.
With identified subscriber messaging, the
voice messaging system is able to play the
calling subscribers recorded name before
the receiving subscriber listens to the message. Identified subscriber messaging works
only with phone systems that provide caller
and calling party information.
To set up identified subscriber messaging

one of the following options:
ism=0 to disable identified subscriber messaging.
ism=1 to enable unsecured identified subscriber messaging. The voice

messaging system automatically
attaches the recorded name of the
extensions owner to messages that
are sent from that extension.
ism=2 to enable secured identified

subscriber messaging. The voice
messaging system prompts the sending subscriber for a security code.
Only after the sending subscriber
enters a valid security code does the
voice messaging system attach the
subscribers name to the message.
If you do not turn on an ISM integration

option, identified subscriber messaging
is set to unsecured mode.
Identified subscriber messaging options

Option
Switch setup
Description
ISM=1
Unsecured
mode
In unsecured mode, internal callers hear the greeting of the

subscriber they are calling before being prompted to leave a
message. The message they leave is identified as originating
from the subscriber box of the extension from which the call
is made. A subscriber who is using another subscribers
extension to leave a message can enter their personal ID and
security code to have the voice messaging system identify
the call as originating from their own subscriber box instead
of the box assigned to the extension that they are calling
from. Unsecured mode is the default setting.
ISM=2
Secured mode
In secured mode, the voice messaging system prompts the

sending subscriber for their security code and does not play
the greeting of the called subscriber.
ISM=0
Disabled
When identified subscriber messaging is disabled, the voice

messaging system considers all messages to be from
unidentified callers.
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Default parameters
DEFAULTS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay: 450
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40

options that control how the voice messaging system works with the phone system.
The following integration options control different

aspects of the systems dial tone detection sensitivity:
CR (Special Confirm Return Sequence) The

voice messaging system uses a special dialing
sequence to return to the caller after the call is
transferred to an internal extension and a subscriber with call screening rejects the call.
DT8=0 (Disable Checkpoint Dial Tone Detect

on Dialout) Disables dial tone detection on
dialing out calls. The voice messaging system
continues to listen for a dial tone while recording messages. Type dt8=1 to reactivate
this feature.
Specify the dialing sequence to use immediately after the CR. For example, CR,,, tells the
system to pause for 3 seconds while the caller
is automatically reconnected. Use this option
only when you want the return sequence for
rejected calls to differ from the return
sequence for unanswered calls.
DT (Dial Tone Detection) When recording a
message, the voice messaging system listens
for a dial tone, reorder tone, or busy tone. If
the system detects a dial tone, it assumes that
the caller has hung up and ends the recording
and the call.
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DT9=0 (Disable Checkpoint Dial Tone Detect

on Transfer) Disables dial tone detection on
transferring calls. The voice messaging system
continues to listen for a dial tone while recording messages. Type dt9=1 to reactivate
this feature.
DTMFMute=<n> (Enable the Make Silence
Parameter) Causes the voice messaging system to pause <n>/100ths of a second before it
plays a prompt in response to a touchtone. For
example, DTMFMute=1 causes the system to
pause for 1/100th of a second before playing a
prompt.
EMA=<n> Controls easy message access,

letting subscribers access their messages from
their assigned extensions with just their security codes. Type ema=1 to activate easy
message access. Type ema=0 to deactivate
easy message access. The default is EMA=1.
F<n> (Delay Before Opening Greeting)
Causes the voice messaging system to pause
for a specific amount of time for a system ID
before playing the opening greeting prompts.
The length of the pause is determined by <n>
which equals 0 to 9 seconds. During this
pause, if the system hears a message box ID,
it forwards the call to the box. If the system
hears a subscriber enter a personal ID, the system signs the subscriber in to their mailbox.
This option is used with phone systems that
do call forwarding with exact station IDs. Do
not use this option if you are using the F port
status option. Do not use this option with the
INT= option.
HLOG=<n> Controls auto-login for hotel
guests, where <n> is 0 or 1. This feature is disabled by default. Type hlog=1 to enable
auto-login. Delete hlog=1 or replace it
with hlog=0 to disable it. Auto-login is
available only to hotel guests.
INT=<xxx><,n1><,n2> Used when integrations require the INT option. <xxx> identifies
the integration, and <,n1> and <,n2> are
optional. <,n1> (Digit Extension Length) indicates the length of extension numbers. <,n2>
(Delay Before First Digit) indicates the delay,
in seconds, that the voice messaging system
waits for an extension number from the phone
system. Do not use this option with the
F<n> option.
ISM=<n> Controls identified subscriber messaging, where <n> is 0, 1, or 2. Type ism=1

to turn on unsecured ISM. Type ism=2 to
turn on secured ISM. Type ism=0 to turn
ISM off. The default is ISM=1.
In unsecured mode, if you are an internal
caller, you hear the greeting of the subscriber
you are calling before you are prompted to
leave a message. If you leave a message, the
voice messaging system identifies your message as originating from the subscriber box of
the extension you are calling from. If you are
using another subscribers extension to leave
a message, you can enter your personal ID
and security code. The system identifies the
call as coming from you instead of from the
subscriber box assigned to the extension you
are calling from. In secured mode, the voice
messaging system asks you for your security
code and does not play the greeting of the
subscriber you are calling. When ISM is off, the
message is identified as one from an unidentified caller.
OTL=<n> (Outdial Trigger Length) Represents the number of characters in a phone
number (including any special dialing characters) that the voice messaging system treats as
an external number and therefore grabs the
outdial access code before dialing the number. You can change this entry by adding the
outdial trigger length parameter. To change
the outdial trigger length, type otl=<n>
where <n> equals a number between 4 and
15. For example, with the setting OTL=11, the
system considers phone numbers with 10 or
fewer characters to be internal extensions,
and 11 characters or more to be external
phone numbers.
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P<n> (Pause Before Greeting) Used after a

transfer attempt, this option causes the voice
messaging system to delay the playback of the
personal greeting for a specific amount of
time. The length of the delay is determined by
<n>, which equals any number of seconds you
choose between 0 and 9 seconds. Setting <n>
to 0 disables this option.
Use this option to eliminate timing problems
on a system that uses a DTMF integration that
sends an extension and an override digit. For
example, if a caller does not hear the first 2
seconds of a personal greeting after a failed
transfer, type p2 on the Integration options
line so that the calling party hears the entire
greeting. The additional 2 seconds eliminates
the timing problem associated with the failed
transfer.
<integration>=<x> Used to define a VB-PC
or serial integration, using one of the following
formats:
vb=<x> Defines the VB-PC integration,
where <x> is MITEL, ROLM, ATT, or NT,
depending on which VB-PC board is installed.
s<c>=<x><bb><p><d><s> Defines a
serial integration, where <x> is the serial integration type (for example, mci is used for
the MCI serial integration), <c> is the COM
port to be used (either 1 or 2), <bb> is the
baud rate (03=300, 12=1200, 24=2400,
48=4800), <p> is the parity (o=odd, e=even, or
n=none), <d> is the word length (5,6,7 or 8),
and <s> is the number of stopbits (1 or 2). Each
serial integration has its own default settings
and usually does not need to be changed.
TIA,,, Enables the phone system to differentiate between extension numbers that have
duplicate first numbers (for example, 110 and
1102). Set this option when the Tall hotel
field on the Hospitality Setup screen is set to
Yes.
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TBAL=<n> (Transaction Box Auto Login)

Enables transaction box owners who dial the
voice messaging system to automatically
access their voice mailboxes. This option is
available only when a call is placed from a
phone with an extension number that is the
same as the system ID of a transaction box.
Type 0 to disable this option; or type 1 to
enable it, which is the default. If this option is
enabled, be sure to set up transaction box IDs
that match only those extensions from which
you want to provide automatic voice mailbox
access. For example, if TBAL=1 and a transaction box has the same system ID as a conference room extension, if someone dials the
voice messaging system from that conference
room extension, they will automatically access
the voice mailbox of the transaction boxs
owner.
TM (<first trunk>-<last trunk>=
<system ID>) Maps trunk calls to specific
transaction boxes, where <first trunk> is the
number of the first trunk in the range, <last
trunk> is the number of the last trunk in the
range, and <system ID> is the system ID of the
transaction box. For example, type tm13=987 to map trunks 1, 2, and 3 to transaction box ID 987. To map to more than one
transaction box, follow with a comma and the
next range and system ID. For example, tm13=987,4-6=988 maps trunks 1, 2, and 3 to
transaction box 987, and trunk 4 to transaction
box 988.
To use this feature, program trunks to ring
directly to the voice messaging system ports. If
an invalid transaction box ID is specified for a
trunk, the system plays the Im sorry, I did not
hear your selection message for callers on
that trunk.
Using an outdial access number
To place an external call, a subscriber must

first dial an outdial access number (usually
9) to reach an outside line. To direct the
voice messaging system to deliver messages
to an outside phone number or to activate
pagers, set up an outdial access number on
Switch Setup screen page 1.
After setup, the voice messaging system will
automatically dial the outdial access number before dialing any message delivery
number that exceeds the length of an internal extension number. Because some
phone systems require a brief pause after
the outdial access number, type a comma
after the outdial access number in the Outdial access field on Switch Setup screen
page 1.

assumes that any phone number exceeding
four digits is an external number. If your
voice messaging system uses extension IDs
that exceed four digits, use the OTL option
in the Integration options field to increase
the number of digits that cause the voice
messaging system to dial the outdial access
number to one more digit than the extension length. Once the OTL option is set up,
the voice messaging system treats phone
numbers with fewer digits than the OTL
value as internal extensions, and any phone
number equal to or greater than the OTL
value as an external number.
To change external number recognition for
outdial access numbers
To set up an outdial access number

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otl=<n> where <n> equals any number between 4 and 15. Press ENTER.
2 In the Outdial access field, type 9,

(nine comma), and press ENTER.
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DEFAULTS
2. Integration options: OTL=6
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay: 450
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
Outdial access Accepts the outdial access number that the voice messaging system dials to call
outside the system, for example, to deliver messages to pagers. If you type 9, (nine comma),
the system dials 9 and pauses briefly before dialing the external number. The system automatically
dials the outdial access number before dialing any
message delivery number that exceeds four digits.
Use the OTL=<n> integration option if your
extension IDs or message waiting indication control sequences exceed four digits.
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options that control how the voice messaging system works with the phone system, such as
OTL=<n>.
Redirecting extension numbers
The voice messaging system can redirect

both calling and called numbers on a systemwide basis. Calling numbers are extension numbers from which a call originates.
Called numbers are extension numbers at
which a call is received. The following table
shows several examples of how to use this
redirect feature.
When a live record conversation is initiated

from a redirected extension, the system
sends the recorded conversation to the
mailbox of the called extension, rather than
the redirected extension.
How to use the redirect feature

Use the redirect feature to
Example
Retrieve your mail messages from multiple

extensions.
You can retrieve your voice messages from

your primary phone or your wireless
headset.
Forward calls to your mailbox when any of

your extensions are busy or unanswered.
Calls from your primary phone and

wireless headset forward to your personal
mailbox.
Send, forward, and respond to voice

messages from any extension.
When you forward a voice message from

any extension in your hotel room, the
person receiving the forwarded call hears
your room number before they hear the
message.
Retrieve voice messages from any extension

in your hotel room.
When one extension in your hotel room is

busy, you can use another extension to
retrieve, send, forward, and respond to
voice messages.
See also
Setting up default live record options .... 134
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REDIRECTING EXTENSION NUMBERS
To redirect extension numbers

2 Using the OS/2 EPM text editor, open
the Cps.ini file located in the Vmail
directory.
3 Position the cursor at the end of the
[ExtensionRemap] line and press ENTER
to begin a new line.
If your Cps.ini file does not have the
[ExtensionRemap] line, type it at the end
of the file.
4 Using the syntax symbols and examples

on page 450 and on page 451, type each
redirect command on an individual line.
Do not put spaces between digits or
before or after the equal sign. When typing redirect commands for called numbers, do not insert a symbol at the
beginning of the line.
5 Save and close the Cps.ini file.
7 Go to Switch Setup screen page 1, press
F2, and choose Activate new settings.
Syntax symbols
Symbol
Type in as
Represents
first character on the line
calling and called numbers
first character on the line
calling numbers
one-to-one correspondence on
both sides of the equal sign
one-digit wildcard
one-to-one correspondence on
both sides of the equal sign
wildcard of one or more digits
[+n] or [n]
last characters on the line
adding n to the preceding asterisk

wildcard or subtracting n from the
preceding asterisk wildcard
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REDIRECTING EXTENSION NUMBERS
Syntax examples
Command
Represents
Result
A540=6724
Calling and called number 540 Extension 540 is redirected to 6724.

is redirected to 6724.
A5?00=6?00
Calling and called numbers that Extension 5300 is redirected to

begin with 5 and end with 00 6300.
now begin with 6.
9*1=9*2
Called numbers that end with 1 Called extension 971 is redirected to

now end with 2.
972.
C2*=7*[+20]
Calling numbers that begin with Calling extension 235 is redirected to

2 now begin with 7 and 20 is 755 and 295 is redirected to 7115.
added to the wildcard.
3*=3*[10]
Called numbers that begin with

3 have 10 subtracted from the
wildcard part of the number.
A3201=3200
A3202=3200
Calling and called numbers

Extensions 3201 and 3202 are
3201 and 3202 are redirected redirected to 3200.
to 3200.
Called extension 321 is redirected to

311.
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Other phone system options
The remaining fields on Switch Setup

screen page 1 are usually kept at their
default values. If you have a special circumstance, or need to reset the value of a field to
resolve a problem, refer to the field descriptions for the following screen before changing any of the default values. Call Technical
Support if you are unsure about changing
the values in these fields.
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1. Switch: DEFAULTS
Default parameters
DEFAULTS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Outdial access: 9,
Recall: &,
Connect: Q
Busy recall: &,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5.
6.
7.
8.
Ring-on time: 10
Pooled delay: 450
Release on LCR? Yes

Off-hook delay: 25
Ring-off time: 40
Transfer initiate This sequence puts an unidentified caller on hold to ring an extension. Type
&,x (hookflash, pause, dial the extension) to activate this option.
Transfer recall This recall sequence returns to the
unidentified caller when the internal extension does
not answer. Type &, (hookflash, pause) to activate this field.
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Connect This recall sequence completes the transfer when the called party answers. Type q (disconnect) to activate this field.
Busy recall This recall sequence returns to the
unidentified caller on hold when the internal
extension is busy. Type &, (hookflash, pause) to
activate this field.
OTHER PHONE SYSTEM OPTIONS
TT prompt Touchtone prompt accepts a number for the duration of touchtones when the voice
messaging system plays a prompt and expects
the caller to enter a digit. You do not need to
change the default setting unless the system fails
to accept touchtones. In that case, reduce the setting by 1 until the system consistently accepts
touchtones. The minimum setting is 4 (40 milliseconds).
TT Msg Accepts a minimum length for touchtones when the voice messaging system plays
back a message recorded over the phone. You do
not need to change the default setting unless the
system fails to accept touchtones. In that case,
reduce the setting by 1 until the system consistently accepts touchtones. The minimum setting is
4 (40 milliseconds).
TT Record Accepts a minimum length for
touchtones when the voice messaging system is
recording a message and does not expect the
caller to enter a digit. You do not need to change
the default setting unless the system fails to
accept touchtones. In that case, reduce the setting by 1 until the system consistently accepts
touchtones. The minimum setting is 4 (40 milliseconds).
Off-hook delay Accepts the number of seconds

(in 100ths of a second) that you want the voice
messaging system to wait after answering a call
before it plays a prompt or accepts touchtones.
Ring-on time Combines with the ring-off time
setting to control a ring signal that accompanies
incoming calls to the voice messaging system.
The ring signal contains voltage that alternates on
and off. Accepts the length (in 10ths of a second)
for the on period in the ring cycle. For example,
type 10 to set up an on period of 1 second.
Ring-off time Combines with the ring-on time
setting to control a ring signal that accompanies
incoming calls to the voice messaging system.
The ring signal contains voltage that alternates on
and off. Accepts the length (in 10ths of a second)
for the off period in the ring cycle. For example,
type 40 to set up an off period of 4 seconds.
Pooled delay Accepts the length of time you
want the system to wait for the ring signal to settle
after answering a call when the lines are set for
pooled ringing. The system ignores any ring signals received during this waiting period. Pooled
delay can be modified for systems that do not
quickly stop the ring signal to other ports.
Release on LCR? Type y if you want the voice

messaging system to assume that the caller has
hung up when the system receives a loop current
open signal from the phone system. Otherwise,
type n.
Answer on ring low? Type y if you want the
voice messaging system to wait through a complete ring on an incoming call before answering.
Otherwise, type n.
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Switch Setup screen page 2, the second of

four phone system integration screens,
includes additional voice messaging system options that let you set up constant
message count, ports on hold, call-holding
message cycle, and message waiting indicators.
These options are described on the following pages.
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10. Message lamp on: ,*3,X

Retries: 0
off: ,#3,X
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
Lamp every message? No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------14. LCD refresh interval: 5
15. Max lines holding total: 6
16. Number tries between TT checks: 4

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Changing message waiting indicator

and touchtone settings
The codes to control message waiting indicators and touchtone settings can be
viewed on Switch Setup screen page 2, and
changed if necessary. The fields used for
message waiting indicators and touchtone
settings on Switch Setup screen page 2 are
described on page 458.
Message waiting indicators

For the voice messaging system to control
message waiting indication on the phone
system, the phone system must have message waiting indicators on the extensions.
The phone system also must allow the indicators to be turned on and off from a standard nondigital phone. Some special phone
integrations are exceptions.
If the phone system lets the voice messaging system control message waiting indicators, perform the following procedure, To
confirm or change message waiting indicator settings, to verify the message waiting
indicator settings.
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To confirm or change message waiting indicator

settings

2 The voice messaging system must know
the codes that activate and deactivate
message waiting indication. Confirm
that the values in the Message waiting
lamp on / off fields are correct for your
phone system. Change the codes if they
are not correct.
3 The voice messaging system needs to
know how many times to dial each message waiting code to confirm that it takes
effect. Confirm that the setting in the
Retries field is correct for your phone
system. Change the setting if necessary.
4 The voice messaging system also needs
to know how long to wait between
dialout attempts to the same message
waiting indicator. Confirm that the value
in the Interval field is correct for your
phone system. Change the setting if necessary.
CHANGING MESSAGE WAITING INDICATOR AND TOUCHTONE SETTINGS
To reset message waiting indicators

2 If your phone system was temporarily
unavailable and caused message waiting indication to turn off, type y in the
Reset all lamps? field.
3 If your phone system requires a daily
message waiting indicator reset, enter
the reset time in the Daily lamp reset
field.
Touchtone settings
The default values in the dialout, hookflash,
and touchtone fields usually do not need to
be changed. If you have a special circumstance, or need to reset the value of a field
to resolve a problem, refer to the field
descriptions for Switch Setup screen page 2
on page 458 before changing any of the
default values. Call Technical Support if you
are unsure about changing the values in
these fields.
4 To have the voice messaging system

immediately reset the subscribers message waiting indicator after each new
message, type y in the Lamp every
message? field.
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Retries: 0
off: ,#3,X
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200

Message waiting lamp on / off Activates message waiting indication. The dialing codes entered
in the Message lamp fields must include x,
which represents the extension number.
Retries Accepts the number of times you want
the system to resend the Message Lamp On or
Message Lamp Off sequence to subscriber extensions. Retries may be necessary when circumstances prevent the activation of a message
waiting indicator on the first attempt of a call.
voice messaging system waits between retries.
Reset all lamps? Type y to have the voice
messaging system immediately reset all message
waiting indication and reactivate message waiting
indication for each subscriber with new messages.
Daily lamp reset Accepts the time for daily
reset of message waiting indication. Each day at
the time specified, the system activates message
waiting indication for subscribers with new messages. Use the hh:mmam format, for example,
2:32am.
Lamp every message Type y to have the system immediately reset a subscribers message
waiting indicator after each new message.
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Dialout pause (,) Accepts the number of 100ths

of a second for the length of a pause for a comma
(,) in a dialing sequence.
Dialout pause (;) Accepts the number of 100ths
of a second for the length of a pause for a semicolon (;) in a dialing sequence.
Hookflash (&) Accepts the number of 100ths of
a second for the length of a hookflash for an
ampersand (&) in a dialing sequence.
Hookflash (%) Accepts the number of 100ths of
a second for the length of a hookflash for a percent sign (%) in a dialing sequence.
Dialout DTMF duration Accepts the number of
100ths of a second for the length of the touchtone. For PLUSNET-1 sites, this value ranges from
8 to 50; for all other sites, the range is 5 to 50.
DTMF interdigit delay Accepts the number of
100ths of a second that the system waits between
touchtones when dialing. For PLUSNET-1 sites,
this value ranges from 8 to 50; for all other sites,
the range is 5 to 50.You may need to change this
range if you have optional packages installed.
Dialtone delay Accepts the number of 100ths of
a second that the system waits for a dial tone
before it places a call.
Limiting the number of ports on hold
If call holding is active for boxes or subscribers, limit both the number of ports that
can be on hold for any single extension and
the number of ports that can be on hold in
the entire voice messaging system. For best
performance, set the Max lines holding
total field to half or less of the total number of ports in your voice messaging system. Set the Max lines holding for ext field
to less than the setting of the Max lines
holding total field.
To limit the number of ports on hold

2 In the Max lines holding total field,
type the number of ports that can be on
hold for the entire system.
3 In the Max lines holding for ext field,
type the number of ports that can be on
hold for any single extension.
When the voice messaging system reaches

the maximum number of ports on hold, it
directly routes additional callers to the
greeting for the extension without offering
them the option to hold.
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Retries: 0
off: ,#3,X
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200

Max lines holding total Accepts the maximum

number of calls allowed on hold at one time for
the entire voice messaging system.
Max lines holding for ext Accepts the maximum number of calls allowed on hold at one time
for any one physical extension.
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Controlling the call-holding message cycle
You can set the length of time that the voice

messaging system lets the caller who is first
in line in a call-holding queue be on hold
before asking whether the caller wants to
keep holding, leave a message, or try
another extension. For callers who are farther back in the queue, the message cycle is
determined by the length of 10 music-onhold prompts.
The actual time that a caller waits is the
value in the Extra hold time between tries
field multiplied by the value in the Number
tries between TT checks field, plus a few
seconds. The recommended settings are 4
for the Number tries between TT checks
field and 50 for the Extra hold time
between tries field.
To set up the message-holding cycle for the caller

who is first in the queue

page 2.
2 In the Number tries between TT
checks field, type the number of times
that you want the voice messaging system to try to transfer a call before checking back with the caller, and press
ENTER.
3 In the Extra hold time between tries
field, type the time, in seconds, that you
want the voice messaging system to wait
before trying to transfer a call, and press
ENTER.
To set up the hold-time message cycle for callers
who are farther back in the queue

Editor screen.
2 Press F8 to locate the music-on-hold
prompts in the holding (HD) prompt set.
3 The first music-on-hold prompt is
already recorded. You can record the
other nine prompts with music or promotional messages. See Making a
recording on page 428 for more information on recording prompts.
See also
Setting up on-hold prompts.................... 424
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Retries: 0
off: ,#3,X
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200

Number tries between TT checks Accepts the

number of times that the voice messaging system
tries to transfer a call to a busy extension between
checks with the caller. Combined with the Extra
hold time between tries field, this controls how
often the system tries a busy extension for the first
caller on hold. The actual time the caller waits is
the value of this field, multiplied by the value in
the Extra hold time between tries field, plus a
few seconds. The recommended setting for this
field is 4. A lower setting may put calls through a
little more quickly. A higher setting may make the
holding conversation sound better to the caller.
Extra hold time between tries Specifies the

time, in 10ths of a second, that the voice messaging system waits between transfer attempts. Combined with the Number tries between TT checks
field, this controls how often the system tries a
busy extension for the first caller on hold. The
actual time the caller waits is the value of this field
multiplied by the value in the Number tries
between TT checks field, plus a few seconds. The
recommended setting for this field is 50 (5 seconds). A lower setting may put calls through a little
more quickly. A higher setting may make the holding conversation sound better to the caller.
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Setting up constant message count
Some liquid crystal display (LCD) phones

show the number of new messages waiting,
but only while the phone is not in use. You
can specify the intervals at which the voice
messaging system refreshes the display. Not
all phone systems support the constant
message function. Check with your installer
or dealer if you need more information
about constant message count on your
phone system.
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To set up constant message count

2 In the LCD refresh interval field, type
an interval between 4 and 10 seconds, or
type 0 (zero) to turn off constant message count. The default is 4 seconds.
This field is not used for integrations
that do not support constant message
count.
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Retries: 0
off: ,#3,X
Interval (mins): 0
Reset all lamps? No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Dialout pause (,)= 100 (;)= 300
Hookflash (&)= 50
(%)= 200

LCD refresh interval Accepts the number of

seconds that the voice messaging system waits to
refresh the constant message count on LCD display phones. Unless you experience delays with
the constant message count, you do not need to
change this field. To turn off the message waiting
information for all subscribers, type 0 (zero).
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Switch Setup screen page 3 shows the call

progress settings for your phone system, as
well as the voice detection parameters.
Default call progress settings are automatically provided for your phone system.
Changes to call progress settings can be
made by performing the ring signal test,
described on page 468 and a busy signal
test, described on page 469.
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20. Call analysis delay: 2

Ring to begin on: 1
21. Debounce silence: 9
Voice: 3
Leading edge detect? Yes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------22. Tolerance above 1st low %: 60
Below 1st low %: 13
23. Tolerance above 2nd low %: 13
Below 2nd low %: 13
24. Tolerance above 1st high %: 13
Below 1st high %: 13
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------25. Max short low in dbl ring: 90
Min long low: 250
26. Max time busy 1st low: 75
Max time busy 2nd low: 90
27. Max time busy high: 75
Busy states over rings: 0
28. Size of long high: 75
Max sil. long: 500
short: 500
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------29. Max time to wait for voice: 3
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Testing call progress
Testing for call progress can help you

resolve problems, such as calls released
with the Await answer call transfer type, or
calls not quickly released after someone
answers the extension.
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The fields on Switch Setup screen page 3

contain values used to help the voice messaging system determine what signal patterns to expect from the phone system. If
you do not know the values for these fields,
test for call progress. Testing for call
progress consists of a ring signal test and a
busy signal test. These tests automatically
update these settings on Switch Setup
screen page 3. If problems persist after testing for call progress, contact Technical Support.
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Ring to begin on: 1
Voice: 3
Below 1st low %: 13
Below 2nd low %: 13
Min long low: 250
Max sil. long: 500
short: 500
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To perform a ring signal test
1 Remove the port that you plan to use for

the test from the master hunt group. See
your phone system documentation for
information on how to do this.
8 Type the number of rings that the voice

messaging system waits for before it
considers a call to be unanswered. Press
ENTER.

page 2. Move the cursor to the field for
the port that you plan to use.

Press F2.
9 Call the extension of the phone that you

are using for the test. Listen for the number of rings that you entered in step 8.
Confirm that the call has not been forwarded to the voice messaging system,
then hang up. If the call was forwarded,
disable call forward for that extension,
find another extension without call forwarding, or lower the number of rings in
step 8.
5 Select Test call progress, and press

ENTER.
10 Type the extension of the test phone that

you used in step 9, and press ENTER.
6 Type the number of the port that you are

using and made busy, and press ENTER.
11 When asked for confirmation, press

ENTER. When the extension rings, do
not answer it. The voice messaging system is conducting the ring signal test.
The test takes from 3 to 10 minutes.
3 Note the current port setting so that you

can return the port to this setting when
the test is complete. Type busy and
press ENTER.
7 Type the number of calls to make for the

ring signal test, and press ENTER.
If you do not want to run the ring signal
test, type 0 and proceed to the busy signal test procedure on page 469.
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To perform a busy signal test
1 When the ring signal test is completed,

type the number of calls for the busy signal test, and press ENTER.
If you do not want to run the busy signal
test, type 0 (zero) and proceed to
step 7.
2 Type the number of busy signal cycles
that the voice messaging system waits
for before it considers the test phone to
be busy. Press ENTER.
7 When the voice messaging system has

completed the busy signal test, it asks
whether you want to update the fields
on Switch Setup screen page 3. Type y
to update. If you enter n, the system
will not be updated with new information generated from the busy signal test.
8 Hang up the phones used in step 3.
9 Press ENTER to return to Switch Setup
screen page 3.
The recommended number of busy signal cycles is eight. If your phone system
offers fewer than eight cycles, enter the
maximum number allowed.

page 2. Move the cursor to the field for
the port that you used for the tests.
Return the port to the original setting.
3 Place a call from the phone that you are

using for the test to another extension.
Answer the called extension. Do not
return the handset to the receiver until
step 7 is complete.
11 Add the port back into the hunt group.
4 Place a call to the test phone from a

third extension. Listen for the busy signal. Confirm that the call has not been
forwarded to the voice messaging system, and hang up only this handset
leave the other two handsets offhook.
5 Type the extension of the test phone that
you used in step 3, and press ENTER.
6 Press any key on the keyboard to start
the busy signal test. Once the test has
started, do not return the phone handsets to the receivers until the test
is complete.
12 If you updated the Switch Setup screen

page 3 fields in step 7, place several calls
to confirm that calls are being transferred correctly.
Output files
Three files are generated when you test for
call progress: Callparm.out, Ring.out, and
Busy.out. The Callparm.out file lists call
progress parameters. The Ring.out file contains the results of the ring signal test. The
Busy.out file contains the results of the busy
signal test. View any of these files by using
the voice messaging systems Previous
Reports function or the OS/2 EPM text editor. See Using reports to monitor your system on page 484 for more information.
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Changing the voice detection setting
Voice detection controls the length of time

the voice messaging system waits for a
caller to speak when leaving a message. This
setting applies to voice detect boxes and to
boxes with voice detect call holding.
To change the voice detection setting

2 In the Max time to wait for voice field,
type the length of time, in seconds, that
the voice messaging system waits for a
caller to speak.
If the caller does not speak within the
specified time, the voice messaging system either routes the caller to the system
ID indicated in the Silence field on the
Transaction Directory screen (for voice
detect boxes), or performs the action
indicated in the Action section (for call
holding).
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Ring to begin on: 1
Voice: 3
Below 1st low %: 13
Below 2nd low %: 13
Min long low: 250
Max sil. long: 500
short: 500
Max time to wait for voice Accepts the number of seconds that the voice messaging system
waits for an unidentified caller to speak. This field
is applicable to both voice detect boxes and
boxes that use voice detect call holding.
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Switch Setup screen page 4 provides settings for you to use in setting up live record
for subscribers and cut-through paging.
These options are discussed on the following pages.
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30. Barge-In Code: 77,X

Live Record beep interval: 3
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------31. Cut-Through Paging enabled? No
Cut-Through Page Type: Attended
32. Cut-Through Page ID: $CUT
Use Only 1 Port? No
33. Cut-Through Page Initiate: %
Cut-Through Page Recall: &,&
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Setting up live record
If your phone system supports the live

record feature, subscribers can record
phone conversations by using either ViewMail or their phone. If you want to use live
record from ViewMail, perform the procedure To set up live record on page 475 to
enable it on the voice messaging system. If
you are using live record from the phone,
see Setting up live record in Chapter 6 of
the Installation Guide and your phone system documentation. For information on
using live record, see Recording a conversation in the User Guide.
Many locales require phone systems to
issue a tone during recorded conversations.
You can program the voice messaging system to provide this beep, or you can program the phone system to provide it.
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Barge-in code
The barge-in code lets the voice messaging
system tap into a line and record a call in
progress. The voice messaging system uses
the Barge-in code field on Switch Setup
screen page 4 to initiate live record in ViewMail. The field setting is a dialable sequence
and should be set to initiate the executive
override function, which requires a busy
tone.
For example, if the phone systems executive
override function is initiated by dialing the
extension followed by the Transfer key (\KG)
and *0, then type X\KG*0 in the Bargein code field. Then, for each subscriber
who wants to use live record in ViewMail,
disable Call Forward Busy on the phone system for each extension.
SETTING UP LIVE RECORD
1 Program the phone system to use a

barge-in code for executive override (or
silent monitor). For details, see the
phone manufacturer's documentation.
2 Disable Call Forward Busy for each
phone set that will be recording from
ViewMail. For details, see the phone
manufacturers documentation.
4 In the Barge-in code field, type the
barge-in code for your phone system.
For example, type x*0 where x
represents the extension number.
5 If you are using live record from the

phone, set the Live record beep interval field to provide a tone or beep at the
interval you specify during live record
sessions.
For example, set the Live record beep
interval field to 60 to provide a beep
every 60 seconds during a live record
session. If you are using live record from
ViewMail, program the phone to provide
this beep. For details, see the phone
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Use Only 1 Port? No
Barge-in code Accepts the barge-in code for

your phone system to enable live record for subscribers. The default is 77,x. If you have TeLANophy, provide the voice messaging system with a
barge-in code in order for live record to be available from ViewMail.
Live record beep interval When live record is

enabled, use this field to set the number of seconds between beeps while a conversation is being
recorded. You can specify a value of between 0
and 60 seconds. To disable the beep, set the
interval to 0. For live record from ViewMail, program the phone system to provide this beep. For
live record from the phone, you can program the
voice messaging system to provide the beep.
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Enabling callers to send cut-through pages
The voice messaging system can let callers

send their phone number to a subscribers
pager when the subscribers phone is unanswered. This process is called cut-through
paging.
By performing the procedure To enable
cut-through paging for a subscriber that
begins on page 477, the system manager
can enable one of three types of cutthrough paging for a subscribers extension:
attended paging, unattended paging, and
release paging.
Attended paging
When a call is unanswered, the caller
presses a key to send a phone number to the
subscribers pager. The caller then enters his
or her phone number. After placing the
caller on hold, the voice messaging system
dials the subscribers pager and sends the
callers phone number. Then, the system
reports whether this call was successful
before closing the call. If the call to the
pager does not connect, the caller is offered
the opportunity to leave the subscriber a
voice message. Attended paging can be set
up to use two ports or only one.
Unattended paging
subscribers pager. The caller then enters his
or her phone number. The voice messaging
system then closes the call and sends the
callers phone number to the subscribers
pager. Unattended paging can be set up to
use two ports or only one.
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When attended or unattended paging uses

only one port, the system setup might
enable toll fraud. When attended or unattended paging uses two ports, there is no
risk of toll fraud. However, the phone system ties up two ports for the call.
Release paging
subscribers pager. The voice messaging system then transfers the caller to the subscribers paging service and closes the call.
When release paging and music on hold

are both enabled, callers hear music
while the voice messaging system dials
the subscribers pager.
Release paging is available only if the

phone system supports trunk-to-trunk
transfers. For information, contact your
phone system administrator.
When release paging is enabled and the

number for the subscribers paging service is a long-distance call, the pager
message causes a long-distance charge.
The system manager can remove the

prompt that announces the transfer of
the caller to the paging service. Perform
the procedure To remove the prompt
for transferring to the paging service on
page 481.
ENABLING CALLERS TO SEND CUT-THROUGH PAGES
To enable cut-through paging for a subscriber
1 Sign in to the voice messaging system.

2 Press CTRL+S to go to the Switch Setup
screen. Press PAGE DOWN to go to
page 4.
3 In the Cut-through paging enabled?
field, type y.
4 In the Cut-through page type field,
type the appropriate code for the type of
cut-through paging that you want to
enable: A (Attended), U (Unattended),
or R (Release).
5 In the Cut-through page ID field, type
a unique system ID. For example, type
$cut. This system ID is used in step 13.
6 For release paging, skip to step 7.
Otherwise, in the Use only 1 port?
field, type y to use the same port that
handled the call for dialing out to the
paging service or type n to use a second port for dialing out.
7 In the Cut-through page initiate field,

type the transfer sequences to transfer
the call for cut-through paging only. If
this field is blank, the voice messaging
system uses the setting in the Transfer
initiate field on Switch Setup screen
page 1.
For example, type \kk (Recall key) or
\kf (Release/Drop key) to hang up on
a caller when setting up unattended
paging on only one port for a phone system installed with D/42-NE2 boards
emulating a Dterm Series 3 phone.
8 In the Cut-through page recall field,
type the appropriate recall setting for
cut-through paging only. If this field is
blank, the voice messaging system uses
the setting in the Recall field on Switch
For example, type &,& (double hookflash) or % (long hookflash) to prevent
a conference call between the caller,
voice messaging system, and the subscribers paging service during attended
paging using only one port.
Continued
477

E A S Y M A D E
S W I T C H
S E T U P
Page 4 of 4

Use Only 1 Port? No
Cut-through paging enabled? Accepts y to

enable cut-through paging, or accepts n to
disable cut-through paging.
Cut-through page type Accepts one of the following codes for the type of cut-through paging to
enable:
A Attended paging asks for the callers phone
number, places the caller on hold while dialing
the pager, reports whether the call was successful, and either closes the call if successful
or lets the caller leave the subscriber a voice
message.
U Unattended paging asks for the callers
phone number, closes the call, and dials the
pager.
R Release paging transfers the caller to the
subscribers paging service and closes the call.
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Cut-through page ID
cut-through paging.
Accepts the system ID for
Use only 1 port? Accepts y to use the same

port that handled the call for dialing out to the
paging service, or accepts n to use a second
port for dialing out.
Cut-through page initiate Accepts the transfer
dialing sequences to put the caller on hold or to
disconnect the caller when dialing the paging service number.
Cut-through page recall Accepts the recall
value the system uses to signal the phone system
to hang up on the paging service.
To enable cut-through paging for a subscriber, continued

Directory screen. Press PAGE DOWN to
go to the subscribers personal directory
page.
10 If the system doesnt have fax capabilities, skip to step 11.
Otherwise, press CTRL+E and type n
to open the Expanded Notification
Options screen.
11 After #3 in the Voice Delivery section,

type the pager number (including any
necessary pauses and security code),
and optionally a colon (:) and origin
code word or number to indicate that
the phone number is a page delivered
from the system. Type:
<pager number>:<origin code>
Press ESC to close the screen.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
Lamp-------------------------------------------------------------------------Lamp #: X
-Voice delivery--------------------------------------------------------------#1: X
after 0 min, 8:00am- 6:00pm MTWHF
#2: 4444444
after 0 min, 6:00pm- 9:00pm MTWHF
5 rings 60 min,Off
#3: 5555555:892 after 0 min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU 4 rings 30 min,Off
#4: 6666666
after 0 min, 12:00am-11:59pm MTWHFSU 1 rings 60 min,Urgent
-Fax delivery----------------------------------------------------------------# : 222-2222 after 0
30
min,Off
#3: Pager phone for message delivery or cutthrough paging Accepts the pager phone number to dial.
Type <pager phone number>:<origin code>
For example, if the pager phone number is 5551234, and the origin code is 892 (to indicate that
the page is from extension 892), then type:
5551234:892
If you are using other notification options, specify
these in any other Voice delivery line except
line #3 .
Continued
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To enable cut-through paging for a subscriber, continued

14 Repeat steps 9 through 13 for each subscriber who can be paged.
13 In an available one-key dialing field,

type the system ID shown in the Cutthrough page ID field on Switch Setup
screen page 4. Press ESC to close the
screen.
15 Sign out of the voice messaging system.

16 Request that subscribers with pagers
rerecord their greetings telling callers
which digit to enter to send a phone
number to the pager.

P E R S O N A L
D I R E C T O R Y
NAME SORT
Name: Yale, Hugh
Personal ID: 9892
Extension # ID: 892
Hold/archive msgs:
0 /2 days
E X P A N D E D
T R A N S F E R
O P T I O N S
Press ESC to Exit
-->Transfer ------------------->Greeting ----->Action -----------------------Transfer? Yes 892
| Busy: 0:00 |
|
| Busy:
No |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------One-key dialing: 1-> 123
2-> $CUT
3-> 555
4->
5->
6->
7->
8->
9->
0->
One-key delay:
0 seconds
One-key dialing fields Accepts the system ID to

which callers are routed when they enter a number. The voice messaging system listens for onekey dialing entries during the greeting and during
the good-bye prompt.
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To remove the prompt for transferring to the

paging service
1 Sign in to the voice messaging system.

Editor screen.
3 Press F8 repeatedly until the prompt set
MB-Message Box appears. Locate the
prompt with the text Please hold while
I transfer you to the subscribers pager
service.
4 Record over the prompt with about 5
seconds of silence. For details, see
Copying or appending a recording to a
voice field on page 429.
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482
C H A P T E R 1 8
Reports
Using reports to monitor your system............ 484

Evaluating voice messaging system usage.... 488
Analyzing port usage ...................................... 490
Using Multisite Messaging reports................. 491
Using directory information............................. 492
Using call log information ............................... 496
Using the error log ........................................... 500
Monitoring wake-up calls ................................ 503
Using the hotel guests report ......................... 506
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Using reports to monitor your system
The voice messaging system can provide

information about your companys incoming and outgoing phone calls, system usage,
and subscribers through a variety of reports.
You can use the information in the voice
messaging system reports to make decisions for your company, such as staffing levels and your phone equipment needs.
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The voice messaging system provides five

different categories of reports: usage, directory, ports, call log, and error log. Reports
that you create are stored in the voice messaging system software directory on your
voice messaging computer. You can view
reports on the voice messaging system console, print them on a printer connected to
the voice messaging system computer, as
well as import the report data into spreadsheet or word processing files.
USING REPORTS TO MONITOR YOUR SYSTEM
The following table lists the standard voice

messaging and optional package reports.
Standard voice messaging and optional package reports
Title
Selection and sort criteria
Format
Output file name
Usage report
Subscribers, extensions,
system IDs, remote sites
Graph
Graph.rpt
Usage report
Subscribers, extensions,
system IDs, remote sites
Table
Table.rpt
Directory report
Subscribers
Table
Subscrib.rpt
Directory report
Extensions
Table
Extensio.rpt
Directory report
Message groups
Table
Grouplis.rpt
Directory report
Members in groups
Table
Groupmem.rpt
Directory report
Subscribers
Table
Membersh.rpt
Directory report
Directory assistance
Table
Dalist.rpt
Busy ports report
Ports
Table
Busyport.rpt
Call log
Subscribers
Table
Replog.rpt
Error log
Date
Table
Errlog.rpt
Fax
Document
Table
Faxlib.rpt
Fax
Local exchange
Table
Locexch.rpt
Multisite messaging
(Network)
Subscribers
Table
Remotsub.rpt
Multisite messaging
(Network)
Groups
Table
Remotegrp.rpt
Multisite messaging
(Network)
Date
Table
Remotcal.rpt
Hotel guests
Guests
Table
Hvmguest.rpt
Wake-up call failures
Date
Table
Wakefail.rpt
Wake-up call log
Date
Table
Wakelog.rpt
Pending wake-up calls
Date
Table
Wakepend.rpt
Continued
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Viewing reports and text files

You can use the voice messaging system
console to view a report or to view the contents of a text file.
To view a previously created report or text file
1 From any voice messaging system

screen, press F2.
Reports and press ENTER.
6 If you selected Copy, you can save the

report by doing one of the following:
To save the report output for use or

printing on another workstation,
specify a new file name for the report
and save the file to a disk. When you
save your report to a disk, the voice
messaging system automatically
replaces the old version of each
report with a new version whenever
you create a new report.
To save an old report, rename it or

copy it to a different file or directory
before creating the same report
again.
3 Select Previous report and press

ENTER.
4 Type the full path and file name of the
report or text file you want to view, and
press ENTER.
5 Select Display, Copy, or Print, and
press ENTER.
If you select Display, you can

search the report by pressing CTRL+J
and entering the text you want to
search for.
If you select Copy, the voice messaging system offers a default file
name and directory. You can use the
Copy command to save the report
with a different name, as described in
step 6.
To use the Print option, a printer

must be properly configured and
connected to the voice messaging
system computer.
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Source data for reports

Each day, the voice messaging system creates data files containing information about
actions and call traffic. The data is used
when you generate reports. You can set the
number of days that the voice messaging
system stores these files. The voice messaging system deletes the files at midnight on
the day that they expire. You can store the
files for up to 365 days.
To set the storage time for report source data

page 9.
2 In the Call report aging field, type the
number of days that you want the voice
messaging system to store the data that
is used to generate reports, and press
ENTER.
You specify start and stop dates when creating some reports. If you specify start or stop
dates that include more days than indicated
in the Call report aging field, your report
contains data only for the number of days
in the Call report aging field.

E A S Y M A D E
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New msgs: 0=0:00
Total: 0=0:00
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.

Auto xrefs? Yes
Max ID attempts: 4
Bad ID Goto--> 0

Voice name: 0:01
|
| Holding? No
| Announce: Always
Call report aging Accepts the number of days

(up to 365) that the system stores the files. Each
day, the voice messaging system creates a file to
store system activity data. The system uses these
daily files to create reports.
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Evaluating voice messaging system usage
Usage reports show you patterns of voice

messaging system activity over time. A
usage report can contain data about the
entire voice messaging system or be limited
to incoming and outgoing calls, subscribers,
groups, and boxes. Usage reports can be formatted as bar graphs or tables. You can
specify a range of days to be covered by the
report. In a usage report, the term day
represents the hours between 6:00 A.M. and
6:00 P.M. and the term night represents
the hours between 6:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M.
To create a usage report
1 From any screen in the voice messaging

system, press F2.
3 From the Reports menu, select Usage
and press ENTER.
4 To create a report about how the entire
voice messaging system is used, type n
and press ENTER. Skip to step 6.
To create a report on use of the voice
messaging system for an individual
guest, subscriber, extension ID, or system ID, type y and press ENTER. Continue with step 5.
5 For a single guest or subscriber, type the
persons last name, and press ENTER.
For an extension ID or a system ID, type
the ID, and press ENTER.
A dialog box will ask for confirmation of
the name or ID. Type y to confirm your
selection.
6 Type the report start date (using d-mmm
format), and press ENTER.
7 Type the report end date (using d-mmm
8 From the menu, select Graph of usage
or Table of usage and press ENTER.
9 From the menu, select Display,
Copy, or Print and press ENTER.
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EVALUATING VOICE MESSAGING SYSTEM USAGE
Sample usage report

TOTAL CALLS/TIME USAGE REPORT FOR 6-Dec TO
TOTAL
Calls HH:MM
6A- 7A:
7A- 8A:
8A- 9A:
9A-10A:
10A-11A:
11A-12P:
12P- 1P:
1P- 2P:
2P- 3P:
3P- 4P:
4P- 5P:
5P- 6P:
DAY
0
0
0
0
6
24
0
0
5
25
16
1
77
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:02
0:08
0:00
0:00
0:02
0:03
0:02
0:01
0:18
TOTAL
Calls HH:MM
6P- 7P:
7P- 8P:
8P- 9P:
9P-10P:
10P-11P:
11P-12A:
12A- 1A:
1A- 2A:
2A- 3A:
3A- 4A:
4
0
0
0
0
0
10
37
0
0
0:01
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:03
0:09
0:00
0:00
PORT 1
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
5
22
0
0
5
8
9
0
49
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:02
0:08
0:00
0:00
0:02
0:03
0:02
0:00
0:17
PORT 1
Calls HH:MM
3
0
0
0
0
0
8
25
0
0
0:01
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:02
0:07
0:00
0:00
6-Dec CREATED: 7-Dec-00 AT 5:01pm
PORT 2
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:01
0:01
0:02
PORT 2
Calls HH:MM
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
0:01
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:01
0:01
0:00
0:00
PORT 3
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:01
0:00
0:01
PORT 3
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
PORT 4
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:01
0:00
0:01
PORT 4
Calls HH:MM
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
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Analyzing port usage
The busy ports report lets you evaluate the

load on your ports. You can use information
from the busy ports report to make decisions regarding port management and adding ports.
The busy ports report shows the total number of times all or selected ports were busy.
It also shows the average percentage of time
the ports were busy during a specific time
period. You can create the report for all
ports on the system or for a selected group
of ports.
If all or nearly all of your ports are busy
during peak hours, external callers may not
get through unless they let the ring continue
until a port becomes free.
To create a busy ports report

screen, press F2.
3 From the Reports menu, select Busy
ports and press ENTER.
4 Type the report start date (using d-mmm
5 Type the report end date (using d-mmm
6 Select the ports you want to include in
the report. For all ports, press ENTER.
7 To select a specific port or ports, type
port numbers separated by commas (for
example, 1, 3, 6), or type a range of
ports separated by a hyphen (for example, 15). Press ENTER.
490
Using Multisite Messaging reports
Multisite Messaging reports give you information about subscribers and message
groups at remote sites as well as remote call
log information, and provide a message
transmission log.
To create a Multisite Messaging report

screen, press F2.
6 To create a remote call log report, do one

of the following:

To create a remote call report log for

all sites, type y and press ENTER.
3 From the Reports menu, select Network reports and press ENTER.
To create a remote call log for a single

site, type n and press ENTER. In the
menu that opens, type the site name
4 From the Network Reports menu, select

the name of the report you want to create.
To create a report on subscribers at

all remote sites, type y and press
ENTER.
To create a report for a single site,

type n and press ENTER. In the
menu that opens, type the site name
7 To create a message transmission log,

type the report start date (using d-mmm
format), and press ENTER. Type the
report end date (using d-mmm format),
and press ENTER.
5 To create a report on message groups,

do one of the following:
To create a report at all remote sites,

type y and press ENTER.
To create a report on message groups

for a single site, type n and press
ENTER. In the menu that opens, type
the site name and press ENTER. Skip
to step 8.
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Using directory information
Directory reports provide you with information about message groups, directory
groups, and directory menus that you have
set up on your voice messaging system.
There are three different types of directory
reports: subscriber, extension, and group.
Subscriber reports
A subscriber report lists all subscribers,
sorted by last name, with their total new
and saved message count and total time of
the new and saved messages. This report is
useful for determining which subscribers
are using the most message storage space.
Extension reports
An extension report lists all subscriber
extensions and transaction box IDs, sorted
by subscriber last name, with their transfer
type and transfer options. This report is useful for viewing summary information on
subscriber extensions and their transaction
boxes.
Group reports
A group report lets you review and manage
groups on your system. There are seven different types of group reports that you can
choose from on the Directory Reports
menu, which are diagrammed on the next
page. For example, you can run a report that
lists all of the groups that a subscriber
belongs to or owns. You can also run a
report that lists the members of a specific
group, or all groups and their members.
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USING DIRECTORY INFORMATION
Directory Reports menu structure
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To create a directory report

screen, press F2.
If you chose Groups including person, type the name of a subscriber,

guest, or remote site and press
ENTER. Press ENTER again to confirm your selection and skip to step 8,
or type n to scroll through a list of
subscribers, guests, and remote sites
until you find the one you want, and
press ENTER.
If you chose List of message

groups, select All groups in the system, All open groups, All local
access groups, or Groups owned by
a particular subscriber and press
ENTER.

3 From the Reports menu, select Directory reports and press ENTER.
4 Select Subscriber report, Extension
report, or Group report, and press
ENTER.
5 If you chose Subscriber report or
Extension report, skip to step 8.
If you chose Group reports, select List
of message groups, Members in a
group, Groups including person, or
Directory assistance and press ENTER.
If you chose Directory assistance,

skip to step 8.
If you chose Members in a group,

type the name of the group and press
ENTER. Press ENTER again to confirm your selection, and skip to
step 8, or type n to scroll through a
list of groups until you find the one
you want, and press ENTER.
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7 If you chose All groups in the system,

All open groups, or All local access
groups, skip to step 8.
If you chose Groups owned by a particular subscriber, type the name of the
subscriber and press ENTER. Press
ENTER again to confirm your selection,
or type n to scroll through a list of subscribers until you find the one you want,
and press ENTER.
8 Select Display, Copy, or Print.
Sample directory report

Subscriber Membership Report
GREER, EDDIE is a member of:
Group Name
147
348
362
982
All Subscribers Group
Created
7-Dec-00 at
5:06pm
Group Name
337
349
732
991
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Using call log information
The call log provides a record of call activity

for the entire voice messaging system or an
individual subscriber. This report includes
information on every call the voice messaging system answers, dials, or transfers, and
is useful in troubleshooting voice messaging system problems.
When you run a call log report, the system

creates an ASCII file called Replog.prn,
which you can import into most database,
spreadsheet, and word processing programs to do additional sorting or formatting. The Replog.prn file contains a record
of each call placed to the system that meets
your report selection critera. Each record in
the file is divided into data fields separated
by commas. Each record is 82 characters
long, including the commas and two control characters (return and line feed)
ending each record. Text fields, including
Date, Time, and System ID fields, are
surrounded by quotation marks; the
numeric fields for Port and Length of
call are not. Items in the report are
described in the following table.
Call log report items

Field name
Value
Meaning
Port
2-digit numeric
Voice messaging system port answering the call
Date
yy/mm/dd
Date of call
Time
hh:mm:ss
Time of call
Length
Up to 4-digit
numeric
Duration of the call in seconds
Origin
A
C
D
L
F
Answered incoming call/Collision

Continued (call routed from another system ID or
box)
Dialed out
Local area network connection
System failure
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USING CALL LOG INFORMATION
Call log report items, continued

Field name
Value
Meaning
FAILURE
Call from a subscriber

Call from a guest
Call for an interview box
Call for a transaction box
Call for a message box
Public call
Transfer to operator
Operator ID transfer
System restarted
System stopped
System dial out to light a message waiting indicator or
to do message delivery
System failure (Fail codes appear in next three fields)
Status of
Call
Busy
Complete
Transfer
No answer
No connect
Intercept
Incomplete
No ID
No msg
Error
Bad ID
Bad SC
Locked
Hung up
Dial out reached a busy tone

Call completed successfully
Call transferred successfully
Dial out resulted in no answer
Dial out resulted in no connection
Dial out resulted in intercept tone
Dial out interrupted by local connect
Dial out resulted in answer but no ID
Unidentified caller hung up
Error during call or ** pressed
Caller entered an unrecognized ID
Invalid security code
Caller ID locked out
Caller hung up
System ID
text
ID of called box, calling subscriber, or invalid ID

(packet sent by switch)
Name
text
Subscriber, guest, or box
Type of Call Owner

Guest
Int Box
Tran Box
Msgbox
Public
Xfer op
Xfer ID
Restart
Shutdown
<Phone #>
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To create the call log report

screen, press F2.
5 Type the start date for the report (using

dd-mmm format), and press ENTER.

6 Type the end date for the report (using

dd-mmm format), and press ENTER.
3 From the Reports menu, select Call

report log and press ENTER.
4 Select the subject of the report you want

to create. For the entire voice messaging
system, press ENTER.
To run the report for a single guest,

subscriber, extension ID, or system
ID, type y.
To select a guest or subscriber, type

their last name and press ENTER.
To select an extension ID or a system

ID, type the ID and press ENTER.
498
Sample call log report

05,"00/10/15","17:35:50",
0,"F","FAILURE ","(M60-2) ","(E7--1)
","(D4)
"
05,"00/10/15","17:35:52",
0,"F","FAILURE ","(M61-1) ","(E7--1)
","(D4)
"
01,"YIELDWAIT: hangup detect code=269
"
01,"00/10/15","18:02:11",
9,"A","Public ","Complete","OPEN
","OpeningB"
01,"END CALL cc=-24
"
01,"Ignored: 1035 (25600) Expecting: 292 267
"
01,"YIELDWAIT: hangup detect code=269
"
35,"00/10/15","18:07:46", 35," ","Sysmgr ","Sign out","Bailey, S","
"
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Using the error log
The error log lists information about system

errors, including the port on which the error
occurred, and the date and time of the error.
Use this report to identify voice messaging
system problems.
Error codes are generated by the system in
the format Mxxx-xx Exx-xx Dxxx, which
means:
To create the error log report

screen, press F2.
3 From the Reports menu, select Error
log and press ENTER.
Mxxx-xx is the module in which the error

appears. The xx is the error location in
that module.
4 Type the report start date (using ddmmm format), and press ENTER.
Exx-xx is the type of error.
5 Type the report end date (using ddmmm format), and press ENTER.
The value of Dxxx depends on the type

of error. For a database error, D is the
record number in the database file. For a
memory error, D is the memory location, sometimes in hex or decimal format.
For a voice board error, D is the port
number having the problem. For a fax
error, Drepresents the fax status codes
or failure codes.
If you cannot solve the problem by using

this information, contact Technical Support.
500
USING THE ERROR LOG
Sample error log

Error Log Report for 1-Dec to 7-Dec
Created: 7-Dec-00 at 5:16pm
Contact your service representative for more information on any errors found
Error:
(M60-2)
(E7--1)
Port:
8
Date/Time:
7-Dec-00
at
Error:
(M61-1)
(E7--1)
Port:
8
Date/Time:
7-Dec-00
at
Error:
(M61-1)
(E7--1)
Port:
8
Date/Time:
7-Dec-00
at
Error:
(M290-10 (E8-0)
Port:
9
Date/Time:
2-Dec-00
at
Error:
(M290-10 (E8-0)
Port:
9
Date/Time:
7-Dec-00
at
(D4)
4:34pm
(D4)
4:34pm
(D4)
4:34pm
(D0)
3:21pm
(D0)
4:57pm
Continued
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USING THE ERROR LOG
Error types
Error type
Meaning
E1
Operating system or disk errors. This error indicates that database

files may be missing or corrupted.
E2
Database error in key files. This error can be due to corrupted or

missing files.
E3
Program errors generated by the voice messaging system.
E4
Screen errors related to objects drawn on the screen. These errors

are not hardware related.
E5
Operating system interface errors. This error indicates that

database files may be missing or corrupted.
E6
Memory allocation errors. This error indicates that startup files

may not have the correct configuration.
E7
Voice board errors indicating a loss of communication between

the application and a voice board. This error does not mean that
the voice board is defective.
E8
Miscellaneous errors.
E9
Fax module errors.
502
Monitoring wake-up calls
Three reports are provided to help you

manage the hospitality wake-up call service: pending wake-up calls, wake-up failures, and wake-up log. These reports
ensure that hotel guests are receiving the
wake-up call services that they need. Wakeup call reports should be created at least
once a week. During times of peak demand,
such as during a large convention, you may
find it helpful to generate them more frequently.
To create a wake-up call report
1 From any screen on the voice messaging

system, press F2.
Reports.
3 From the Reports menu, select Hospitality reports.
4 From the Hospitality Reports menu,
select Pending wake-up calls, Wakeup call log, or Wake-up call failures,
and press ENTER.
5 If you selected Wake-up call log or
Wake-up call failures, enter the start
and end dates for the report, using the
format dd-mmm, and press ENTER.
Continued
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503
MONITORING WAKE-UP CALLS
Pending wake-up calls
Wake-up call log
This report lists all pending wake-up calls in

the system queue. It helps the system
administrator monitor wake-up call use and
schedule alternative wake-up call service if
the system is unavailable. Always create this
report before the system is brought down
for maintenance.
This report lists all attempted wake-up call

dialouts. It can be used as a troubleshooting
tool to check when a wake-up call was
made. When tracked over time, wake-up
call usage patterns can be established and
monitored.
Wake-up call failures

This report assists the system administrator
by listing wake-up calls that:
Were scheduled for more than 10 minutes before a guests requested time.
These calls are logged as overload on
the report.
Were unanswered after the maximum

number of retries. This condition also
generates an urgent message to the designated subscriber. These calls are
logged as max retry on the report.
Expired before they could be made. A

wake-up call request expires when it
cannot be made within 20 minutes of its
scheduled time. This report provides the
only notification for expired wake-up
calls. These calls are logged as expired
on the report.
504
MONITORING WAKE-UP CALLS
Sample wake-up call report

PENDING WAKE-UP CALL REPORT CREATED
5-Jan-00 AT
Guest Name
Room
Date
Time
Silverman, Joel
Barnes, William
Masters, Irena
Wu, Cheryl
Moss, Amaryllis
Geist, Joanne
Perez, Ricardo
111
114
112
115
113
110
116
01/06/00
01/06/00
01/06/00
01/06/00
01/06/00
01/06/00
01/06/00
6:15am
6:15am
6:25am
6:30am
6:45am
7:00am
7:15am
9:14am
Next Attempt
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
6:15am
6:15am
6:25am
6:30am
6:45am
7:00am
7:15am
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Using the hotel guests report
The system can provide a report that lists all

hotel guests. The report is sorted by guest
name, if available, or by room number if the
guest name is not available. This report can
be useful if staff want an on-demand guest
list, or if you need to research a voice messaging system problem for a guest. This
report is also useful to have before the system needs to be taken down for maintenance or an upgrade.
To create a hotel guests report
1 From any screen on the voice messaging

system, press F2.
Reports.
3 From the Reports menu, select Hospitality reports.
4 From the Hospitality Reports menu,
select Hotel guests and press ENTER.
506
USING THE HOTEL GUESTS REPORT
Sample hotel guests report

HOTEL GUEST REPORT CREATED
NAME
{1149
{1150
{1151
{1152
{1152
{1155
{1203
{1205
{1206
{1207
{1209
{1210
{1211
{1212
{1213
{1215
{1216
{1217
{1218
{1219
{1220
{1221
{1222
{1223
{1224
{1224
{1224
{1230
{1230
{1231
{1232
{1233
{1234
{1235
{1236
{1238
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Pers ID
Ext. Id
51149
51150
51151
51152
57748
51155
51203
51205
51206
51207
51209
51210
51211
51212
51213
51215
51216
51217
51218
51219
51220
51221
51222
51223
51104
51224
57913
51042
51230
51231
51232
51233
51234
51235
51236
51238
1149
1150
1151
1152
7748
1155
1203
1205
1206
1207
1209
1210
1211
1212
1213
1215
1216
1217
1218
1219
1220
1221
1222
1223
1104
1224
7913
1042
1230
1231
1232
1233
1234
1235
1236
1238
21-APR-00 AT
New
Messages
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
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0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
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0=0:00
0=0:00
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0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
0=0:00
5:17pm
Last
Contact
Voice
Name
In Dir?
04/19/00
04/19/00
Never
04/18/00
04/18/00
04/19/00
Never
Never
Never
Never
Never
Never
Never
Never
Never
04/20/00
04/19/00
Never
04/20/00
Never
04/20/00
04/20/00
04/19/00
Never
Never
Never
Never
04/19/00
04/19/00
04/20/00
04/20/00
04/19/00
04/20/00
04/20/00
Never
04/20/00
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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No
No
No
No
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No
CHAPTER 18: REPORTS
507
508
C H A P T E R 1 9
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting overview .............................. 510
Voice messaging computer hardware

components and peripherals .......................... 523
The system key................................................. 512

Upgrade issues................................................. 514
Troubleshooting networking, TeLANophy,

and e-mail integration...................................... 528
Delayed messages........................................... 515
Troubleshooting Hospitality............................ 535
Delays in message notification ....................... 518
Troubleshooting the ActiveFax package ....... 544
Disk full error messages .................................. 519
Multisite Messaging troubleshooting............. 550
Touchtone sensitivity....................................... 520
Troubleshooting remote maintenance .......... 554
General tone detection ................................... 521
CHAPTER 19: TROUBLESHOOTING
509
Troubleshooting overview
Topics in this chapter identify problems

related to voice messaging system installation, maintenance, and customization.
Refer to the general topics listed in the table
below to find information about a type of
problem, or refer to the index for specific
topics.
If you experience a problem that you cannot

solve using the information and the
resources cited, or you experience a problem that is not discussed, contact your
installer or Active Voice Technical Support.
Troubleshooting topics
Symptom or problem
See
Error message Demonstration copy, system key

not found
The system key on page 512
Problems with voice messaging system

computer hardware (hard disk, CD-ROM drive,
IRQ settings, etc.), voice boards, or peripheral
devices
Voice messaging computer

hardware components and
peripherals on page 523
Delivery of subscriber messages is delayed, or

subscriber message notification delays occur
Delayed messages on page 515,

and Delays in message notification
on page 518
Voice messaging computer hard disk is full
Disk full error messages on

page 519
Problems with networking, TeLANophy, or

e-mail
Troubleshooting networking,
TeLANophy, and e-mail integration
on page 528
System does not identify touchtones correctly
Touchtone sensitivity on page 520
Incoming and outgoing calls collide, phantom

calls go to the operator, or dial tones are
recorded in mailboxes
The procedures to activate general

tone detection, as described in
Selecting integration options on
page 440
Increased number of busy signals occur
Troubleshooting networking,
TeLANophy, and e-mail integration
on page 528
Calls are released with the Await answer

transfer type
Testing call progress on page 466
510
TROUBLESHOOTING OVERVIEW
Troubleshooting topics, continued

Symptom or problem
See
Problems are reported after a voice

messaging system upgrade
Upgrade issues on page 514
Hospitality application issues, hotel guest

Troubleshooting Hospitality on page 535
message problems, or Property Management
System integration problems
Fax setup or integration problems, or fax
messages not able to be sent or received
Troubleshooting the ActiveFax package

on page 544
Remote maintenance problems
Troubleshooting remote maintenance

on page 554
Multisite Messaging problems
Multisite Messaging troubleshooting on

page 550
Phone system integration problems
Your phone system Integration Guide or

the phone system documentation
511
The system key
If the Banner screen does not appear on a

newly installed system after an upgrade, use
the next procedure, To test the system key,
to confirm that it is working correctly.
If you are installing TeLANophy as part of
the voice messaging system, you may
encounter network errors while you are
testing the system key. Ignore the errors if
you have not yet connected the network
interface card to the LAN. Otherwise, consult your LAN administrator or refer to your
LAN documentation for further assistance.
If the system has been programmed and the
key is defective or not attached, the system
will not start at the Banner screen. Instead
the error M95-1 appears on your screen.
512
THE SYSTEM KEY
To test the system key
1 Turn on the voice messaging computer.
6 Turn on the voice messaging computer.
2 If Demonstration copy, system key not

found appears on the Banner screen,
the system key is installed incorrectly or
is defective. Continue with step 3.
7 If Demonstration copy, system key not

found appears on the Banner screen,
the system key may be defective. Call
Sales Support.
If the Banner screen appears, the system

key is installed correctly. Skip to step 8.
If the Banner screen appears, the system

key is installed correctly. Continue with
step 8.
3 Confirm that the system key is firmly

connected to the LPT1 parallel port. If
there is more than one parallel port on
the voice messaging computer, move
the system key to another parallel port
and continue with step 4.
4 Go to the OS/2 desktop and choose the
Shut Down OS/2 icon.
8 Press F5 from the Banner screen to confirm that the number of ports and features installed on the system is correct.
If the number of ports and feature packages is correct, the test was successful. If
the number of ports or feature packages
is incorrect, call Sales Support.
5 After OS/2 has completely shut down,

turn off the voice messaging computer.
513
Upgrade issues
After a system upgrade, you may experience

one of the following problems:
Reports of missing archived messages

after an upgrade
Missing desktop icons
Missing archived messages
When the upgrade process spans several

days, archived messages may be deleted if
the archive days limit was reached during
the upgrade process. All messages older
than the archive days limit will be deleted
when the system is brought back online. To
prevent this from happening, tell users to
re-archive their messages prior to beginning
the upgrade process.
Desktop icons missing after an upgrade

If the OS/2 desktop icons are missing from
the voice messaging computers console
after an upgrade, refer to Shutting down
and restarting the system on page 28. Shut
down the voice messaging system and
OS/2, then restart. The desktop icons will
appear.
514
Delayed messages
Occasionally, you may receive a complaint

about new messages being delayed or arriving late in a subscribers voice mailbox.
Although it may sometimes appear that the
voice messaging system is delaying the
delivery of a new message, the system never
holds a new message and delivers it at a
later time unless the Future message delivery option is set by the sender.
Perceptions of delayed or late messages are
real, however, and should be taken seriously. Something is happening that causes
the subscriber to think that messages are
being delayed.
See also
Delays in message notification ............... 518
The following options can help you investigate and resolve delayed message reports.
Check the clock settings
Make sure that the clocks in the office and
the subscribers wristwatch agree with the
voice messaging computers clock setting.
Also, check to see if the voice messaging
system is ever logged on to another server
for example, to do a backup on the LAN. If
the Novell logon script is set to synchronize
the time settings, the LAN server could be
changing the clock setting when the voice
messaging system logs on.
Continued
515
DELAYED MESSAGES
Discuss findings with the subscriber

Review the subscribers interactions with
the voice messaging system. For instance,
are all new messages being played when
new messages are checked?
Many phone systems do not immediately
disconnect the call when a subscriber hangs
up. If a subscriber hangs up before hearing
all the new messages, the system may continue to play them after the subscriber has
disconnected. The next time the subscriber
checks messages, the unheard messages
may be old messages. The subscriber will
wonder why these messages were not
played when they were new.
516
Subscribers with touchtone phones can

press * (star character) three times to stop
message play and exit the voice mailbox,
preserving the new message status for
unheard messages.
DELAYED MESSAGES
Use Diagnostic Traces

Use the Diagnostic Traces option to pinpoint the problem. When the subscriber
first reports an instance of a delayed message, turn on Diagnostic Traces by typing
^# T51 in the Startup field on Application screen page 8.
The Diagnostic Traces option adds important troubleshooting details to a call log.
When Diagnostic Traces is off, the call log
only indicates when the subscriber
accessed the subscriber conversation.
When it is turned on, the call log details
everything that happened during a
message-checking session.
When the next delayed message report

comes in, create an individual call log for
the day of the occurrence. Print the report
and use it to pinpoint why messages may
appear to be delayed. When you discuss the
problem with the subscriber, you will be
able to explain what happens and what the
subscriber can do to resolve the situation.
When you finish troubleshooting the problem, first turn Diagnostic Traces off by
changing ^# T51 to ^# T50 from the
Startup field on Application screen page
8, and then delete ^# T50 from this field.
Diagnostic Traces should only be on while
troubleshooting a problem. If Diagnostic
Traces is left on, your voice messaging systems hard disk may fill up.
517
Delays in message notification
Delays in message notification may be the

cause of reports of delayed messages. The
messages are arriving properly, but the subscribers message notification may be
delayed. When the system is operating normally, subscribers receive notification of
new messages immediately after the message is left.
The following situations can cause message
notification delays:
The Future message delivery option

was set by the sender.
On some phone systems, if the subscribers extension is busy, the system

cannot dial the extension to activate the
message light.
If all Answer/dial out ports are busy, the

system cannot process all message notifications promptly. Create the call log for
the answer-dial ports to determine if you
need more Answer-dial ports.
If all the ports are busy, the system cannot dial any extension to activate message lights.
See also
Using reports to monitor your system ... 484
518
If the Switch setup fields are not completed properly, the phone system integration may interfere with message
notification. See your phone system
Integration Guide for more information.
If the connection between a workstation

and the network is terminated, or if a
problem arises with the connection, the
system cannot update ViewMail with
notification of new messages. Try one of
the following:
Press F5 to refresh the ViewMail window.
If refreshing does not update the window, restart ViewMail. If starting does
not update the window, restart the workstation and reconnect to the network.
If the message waiting lamps do not
light, or calls collide during callout, or
dial tones appear in voice mailbox messages, your phone system may require
that general tone detection (GTD) be
enabled and that the GTDETECT utility
be run. See General tone detection on
page 521.
Disk full error messages
If the voice messaging system runs out of

message storage space, perform the following procedure.
NOTE
The voice messaging system may run out of
message storage space while a subscriber is
recording a message in ViewMail, or during
a live record session. If this happens, only
the portion of the message or recording that
was made before the disk became full will
be saved or sent. The subscriber does not
receive a disk full error message when this
occurs. The recipient of the message may
report the problem as a partial or truncated
message.
To resolve a voice messaging system disk full condition
1 Check the contents of the public interview box. Confirm that at least one subscriber has P and C access codes set to
allow access to public messages.
Confirm that the subscribers who have
access to public messages are routinely
reviewing and taking action on the messages in this box. Also, check the Hold/
Archive field for the Public Message
box. The default values are 0 (zero) hold
days and 4 archive days. Higher values
for hold and archive days may require
additional disk space.
2 Check the Hold/Archive field for the
default subscriber and for individual
subscribers. The default values are 0
(zero) hold days and 4 archive days.
Higher values for hold and archive days
may require additional disk space.
3 Check whether Diagnostic Traces is

enabled, and the level at which it is
enabled. Diagnostic Traces should only
be enabled for troubleshooting. Higher
levels may require more disk space.
4 Determine whether sufficient disk space
is available before starting a tape
backup with verify. The verify option
writes a temporary file to the voice messaging system hard disk, which may
cause the disk full error message.
5 If none of these steps resolves the problem, contact your installer or Active
Voice Technical Support.
519
Touchtone sensitivity
The voice messaging system detects real

touchtones dialed by a caller while screening out false touchtones that occur in natural human speech. The system distinguishes between them on the basis of
length. Dialed touchtones are usually longer
than the similar tones in speech, so the system ignores tones under a specified length.
The voice messaging system stores three
different minimum lengths for touchtones,
each of which is specified in 100ths of a second. For example, if you enter the number
6, the system ignores tones shorter than
600ths of a second.
The DTMF prompt length is used whenever
the system plays a prompt and expects a
caller to enter touchtone keys. This is the
first number in the TT Prompt/Msg/
Record field on Switch Setup screen page 1.
The second number in the TT Prompt/
Msg/Record field is used when the system
plays a message and expects a caller to enter
digits. The third number is used when the
system records a message and does not
expect a caller to enter any digits.
520
If you find that the voice messaging system

is not identifying touchtones, reduce the
length of the DMTF prompt. Reduce the
number by one until the system consistently detects dialed touchtones.
Users of analog cellular phones are the most
likely to complain about the system not recognizing touchtones. Unfortunately, due to
the inherent limitations of analog transmission, you may not be able to fully resolve the
problem for those subscribers.
General tone detection
One or more of the following situations

indicates a problem with general tone
detection (GTD).
Calls collide during callout. For example, when the voice messaging system
tries to dial out and a new call comes in
at the same time, the caller hears dialed
touchtones.
Phantom calls go to the operator. This

typically occurs when a caller hangs up
during the opening greeting and the call
is transferred to the operator.
Dial tones appear in messages in voice

mailboxes.
To activate general tone detection

page 1.
dt (dialtone detection) and press
ENTER.
3 If this does not correct the problem, perform the procedure To run GTDETECT on page 522.
Continued
521
GENERAL TONE DETECTION
Running GTDETECT
The GTDETECT utility tests the busy, reorder, and dial tones from the phone system,
and saves the correct frequency, cadence,
and length for each.
To run GTDETECT
1 Set up a test extension, and place it in a

busy state.
3 At the voice messaging directory
prompt, type gtdetect and press
ENTER.
4 Type 1 to choose Detect busy, reorder
and dial tone.
5 Type an invalid extension number that
will return a reorder tone, and press
ENTER.
You can use an extension that does not
actually exist. On some phone systems,
dialing the port that is placing the call
(Port 1) will return a reorder tone.
If your phone system does not provide a
reorder tone, press ENTER to skip to
step 6.
6 Type the test extension number that will
return a busy tone and press ENTER.
7 During the test, the screen displays several status messages. When the test is
finished, a menu appears. Type 5 to
save the settings.
8 Type 0 (zero) to exit the utility.
522
Voice messaging computer hardware

components and peripherals
Troubleshooting instructions for problems
with the voice messaging computer hardware components and peripherals are presented in the following subtopics:
Startup
Hard disk
Voice boards or other devices
NovaBack
LinkWiz
RAID
Console display
Startup problems
If the system will not start after a new
installation or upgrade, perform the procedure To resolve startup problems on
page 524.
Continued
523
VOICE MESSAGING COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS AND PERIPHERALS
To resolve startup problems
1 If an error occurs when starting the system, you may have a disk in drive A.
Remove the disk and restart the system.
2 If OS/2 is not recognizing hardware
options or is not starting correctly, OS/2
may not be properly installed. To reinstall OS/2 Warp 4.0, see Installing the
OS/2 software in Chapter 5 of the
Installation Guide.
3 If an error message appears during
startup saying that the hard disk has
failed, see Voice messaging computer
hard disk problems on page 525.
4 If the voice messaging system locks up at
the copyright screen, this can indicate
an IRQ setting conflict. Confirm that the
voice board jumper switches are set to
the correct IRQ settings. See Table of
IRQ settings in Appendix D, Hardware
settings and connections, in the Installation Guide.
Also, if the remote computer uses an
external modem, confirm that it is
turned on and connected to a serial port
with 16550 or higher UART chip support
before installing the software.
524
5 If Error! REQ0815: The program cannot

get the connection ID appears during
startup, then confirm that the cable is
not defective by trying a different cable.
Confirm that the system is successfully
connected to the LAN. See Connecting
the computer to a LAN in Chapter 14,
TeLANophy, in the Installation Guide.
Also, confirm that the network protocols
and NIC drivers are correctly set up by
performing the procedures described in
Changing the NIC drivers and network
protocols in Appendix C in the Installation Guide. If this does not resolve the
error, reinstall OS/2 Warp and the voice
messaging system software.
Voice messaging computer hard disk

problems
If the system does not recognize drive D or
E as a hard disk, the system may not have
the hard disk partitioned correctly into
three partitions. At a command prompt,
type chkdsk followed by the drive letter
to check the size of the drives.
To partition the hard disk and format the
partitions, see Creating and formatting
OS/2 hard disk partitions, in Chapter 5,
Installing Software, in the Installation
Guide.
If you get the error message The size of the
requested partition exceeds 2,048 MB or is
beyond cylinder 1023 of your disk, then set
the computers CMOS BIOS setting to LBA,
or enable Adaptecs extended BIOS setting.
To change the Adaptecs setting, see
Enabling an Adaptec BIOS setting in
Chapter 8, Upgrading the voice messaging
system hardware and software, in the
Installation Guide.
The voice messaging computer does

not recognize voice boards or other
devices
If voice boards or other devices are not recognized, perform the following procedure,
To troubleshoot unrecognized voice
boards or other devices.
Or, if you suspect that the voice board
equipment is malfunctioning, check the
appropriate part of the Installation Guide to
see that all installation procedures have
been followed correctly. If after checking
the installation procedures, you cannot
locate the problem, contact Active Voice
Technical Support.
To troubleshoot unrecognized voice boards or
other devices
1 Confirm that expansion boards are

firmly seated in the motherboard slots
and that each board is properly configured.
2 Check the IRQ (hardware interrupt) settings. See Table of IRQ settings in
Appendix D, Hardware settings and
connections, in the Installation Guide.
3 Confirm that your CD-ROM driver software is current. Contact Technical Support if you need assistance.
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NovaBack problems
LinkWiz problems
If the error message The NovaBack application is not responding. Press ENTER to
terminate it appears during a NovaBack
session, then CTRL+ESC may have been
pressed during an online backup, and OS/2
returned a dialog box to allow the user to
terminate the application. In this case, press
CANCEL when this dialog box appears, to
let NovaBack continue the backup process.
If ENTER is pressed, the online backup
terminates.
If LinkWiz does not recognize the other

computer, confirm that the parallel connection is secure. If the connection is made
through the system key, confirm that the
system key is screwed securely into the parallel port.
If LinkWiz does not transfer the files, or if
LinkWiz stops on a file and displays packet
error 35 or 106, confirm that you are using
LinkWiz version 2.4.4. Version 3.0 is neither
supported nor shipped with Repartee products.
If voice message files are corrupted after a
LinkWiz transfer, transfer the data using
DOS names in uppercase.
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Error occurs during tape backup of a

RAID.
Voice messaging system display

problems
If an error occurs during a tape backup of a

RAID, on the RAID Performance Monitor,
go to the View menu and confirm that
Capture data is disabled. If the Capture
Data option is enabled, it writes data to a
*.cap file continually at set increments of
seconds, minutes, hours until it runs out of
disk space. To free hard disk space, search
for and delete the *.cap file located in the
Perfmon directory.
If garbage characters appear on the voice

messaging systems screen, the voice messaging system was set to troubleshooting
(trace) mode.
To restore the normal screen display
1 Press ALT+8 to turn off the trace mode.

2 Exit to the Banner screen, then sign in to
the system to refresh the display.
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Troubleshooting networking, TeLANophy,

and e-mail integration
The corrective actions described in this section may require the LAN administrators
assistance.
TeLANophy and busy ports

When TeLANophy packages are installed,
certain performance problems may occur,
including message notification delays and
an increase in the percentage of busy signals.
Installing TeLANophy packages, particularly
ViewMail, means subscribers will be using
TeLANophy to connect to phone ports.
ViewMail users without sound devices will
use voice messaging ports to record and listen to messages. These users can increase
the amount of traffic on voice messaging
ports. If the voice messaging system is
operating at or near port capacity, adding
ViewMail may occasionally cause all the
ports to be busy. The number of subscribers
who can simultaneously use voice messaging is limited by the number of ports on the
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TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORKING, TELANOPHY, AND E-MAIL INTEGRATION
Optimizing performance on a busy

system using TeLANophy
To alleviate performance problems on a
busy system, you can perform the following
tasks:
Limit the number of ports
The voice messaging system includes a
special option that limits the number of
ports available for making phone connections with network-based subscribers. Typing n in a ports Special port
options field on Application screen
page 2 prevents that port from dialing
out to a TeLANophy workstation. This
will keep at least some ports available
for the system to use for processing
voice messaging traffic.
Enabling firewall access

To allow access through a firewall, you need
to know the TCP/UDP port. This value for
TeLANophy is TCP port 1024.
Use PC sound devices

If subscribers have Windows-compatible
sound devices installed on their workstations, let them know they can listen to and
record messages through their workstations
instead of through the phone. This eliminates the need for a voice port connection.
Disconnect immediately
Encourage subscribers to disconnect
immediately after listening to or recording messages. ViewMail does not disconnect immediately, which allows
subscribers to play or record a series of
messages without breaking the connection. However, if a subscriber does not
hang up, minimize the ViewMail window, or choose Disconnect when finished, the connection remains open for
3 minutes and ties up a port.
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E-mail integration problems

You need to troubleshoot the e-mail integration if:
A caller hears E-mail will not be accessible during this call.
A subscriber cannot forward a ViewMail

message through the e-mail system.
The e-mail integration is not available

for a subscriber. Perform the next procedure, To troubleshoot the e-mail integration.
To troubleshoot the e-mail integration
1 Confirm that the voice messaging systems network connection is still intact
and that the e-mail system is still running correctly.
2 Confirm that the voice messaging system is logged on to the LAN before starting the system. If the system is not
logged on to the LAN, the integration
will not initialize.
3 If the subscriber is newly added to the
system, confirm that the subscriber has
completed the first-time enrollment
process to set up his or her mailbox in
the system. Until the subscribers mailbox is set up, that person cannot send or
receive messages.
4 Go to the subscribers personal directory
page and confirm that the subscriber
has access code 4 set on the Access Code
Options screen.
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To troubleshoot the e-mail integration, continued
5 If the system uses a GroupWise 5.0 or

higher integration with a trusted server
password, confirm that the password is
set up. See Setting up the trusted server
password for GroupWise 5.0 or later in
Chapter 16, Setting up the E-Mail Integration package, in the Installation
Guide.
6 Confirm that the subscriber is entering
the correct password to successfully log
on to e-mail. To confirm this, perform
the procedure To confirm settings for
e-mail integration for subscribers on
page 532.
7 Confirm that the e-mail post offices are

set up correctly for the integration. See
Setting up post offices for cc:Mail or
Setting up post offices for GroupWise
in Chapter 16, Setting up the E-mail
Integration Package, in the Installation
Guide. Also see the procedure To confirm settings for e-mail integration for
subscribers on page 532.
8 Confirm that the network drive mappings do not extend beyond the domain
directory. For example, drive I:\ may be
mapped to \\Ariel\Apps\Domain
instead of \\Ariel\Apps\. To check drive
mappings, type map at a command
prompt.
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Subscribers e-mail password does not

work.
If the subscriber uses letters for the e-mail
password, confirm that the password is
typed as lowercase letters. Passwords may
be set up as case sensitive.
If the system uses a GroupWise e-mail integration, confirm that the subscriber has a
password set up for the integration. It is
required for the integration and it must be
set up using the GroupWise client Tools
menu. Also, confirm that the e-mail post
offices are set up correctly for the integration. See Setting up post offices for
cc:Mail or Setting up post offices for
GroupWise in Chapter 16, Setting up the
E-Mail Integration package, in the Installation Guide.
Confirm that the voice messaging system
can access the subscribers post office and
that it has the proper rights set up, by performing the procedure, To confirm settings
for e-mail integration for subscribers, on
this page.
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To confirm settings for e-mail integration for

subscribers
1 Shut down the voice messaging system.

2 At a command prompt, type
emlogin followed by the subscribers
logon name, password, and post office
name, each enclosed in double quotation marks, and press ENTER.
For example, type
emlogin "name" "password"
"post office"
and press ENTER.

3 If the message You successfully logged
in appears on the screen, the subscriber
is set up correctly and the e-mail integration is set up correctly. If you do not
receive this message, try the solutions
listed in the appropriate troubleshooting
section.
Fax document appears as multiple TIF files

All fax documents are received by the voice
messaging system as multiple TIF files
one TIF file is generated for each page in
the fax document. These files are named
according to their number in the document
sequence; for example, page 1 is
Page001.tif, page 2 is Page002.tif, and so on.
When a user opens one of these fax pages
by double-clicking it, the file is copied to a
temporary directory which can then be
accessed by ViewFax.
If the system uses ViewMail or ViewMail for

Microsoft Messaging, all of the TIF files are
automatically copied into the temporary
directory and are accessible by ViewFax. It
is not necessary for the user to open and
close each TIF file to view the fax document
pages.
If the system uses a GroupWise e-mail integration, users must double-click each TIF
file individually to open and view the pages
of the fax document in ViewFax. As the user
opens these files (and copies them to the
temporary directory), ViewFax is able to
access the files and display them in sequential order without the user opening and
closing each file. For example, if the user
opens Page001.tif to view it in ViewFax,
closes the file, and opens Page002.tif, ViewFax will display page 2 and provide access
to page 1.
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Act! 4.0 and 5.0 field mapping

You cannot customize field mappings when
you set up ACT! 4.0 and 5.0 as the personal
database option in ViewCall Plus.
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Subscriber is unable to change an

unknown callers name
ViewMail users cant replace Unknown
caller with the callers name. Changing the
callers name in the message window is not
supported.
Troubleshooting Hospitality
Troubleshooting information for the Hospitality package is presented in the following

subtopics:
Wake-up calls
Hotel guest directory
Tall hotel
Property management system (PMS)
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TROUBLESHOOTING HOSPITALITY
Troubleshooting wake-up call problems

If wake-up calls are made earlier or later
than the guests requested times, perform
the next procedure, To troubleshoot wakeup call problems.
To troubleshoot wake-up call problems
1 Confirm that the system time is correct.

2 Create the wake-up call log to determine
the time difference between the
requested times and the actual times of
the wake-up calls for the problem days.
3 Check the wake-up call greeting length.
If this greeting has been changed and is
longer than 6 seconds, try a shorter
greeting.
If the wake-up call greeting length is the
same as, or similar to, the default greeting length, there may be insufficient port
capacity to handle the call volume. You
can add more ports with dial-out capability, or set one port to Message only
so that it does not interfere with message
waiting indicators.
4 Create the wake-up call log to see
whether the slow response time for message waiting indicators coincides with
times of heavy wake-up call volume. If
this is the case, there may be insufficient
port capacity to handle the call volume.
You can add more ports with dial-out
capability, or separate your wake-up call
ports from your lamp dial ports by setting one or more ports to Answer/message and one or more ports to Answer/
lamp.
5 If the wake-up call problems continue,
create the Busy Ports report and call
Technical Support to request assistance
with balancing system demand and port
capacity.
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Guest did not receive a wake-up call
Hotel guest directory problems
If a guest says that he or she did not receive

a wake-up call, create the wake-up call log
to see when the wake-up call was dialed for
that guest. If the results column of the
report states Complete, then the system
dialed out and detected that the call was
answered. If the guest insists that they
didnt receive a call, call progress may not
be working correctly. The voice messaging
system may be incorrectly detecting a connection and considers the wake-up call to
be complete.
If a guest name is missing from the hotel

guest directory, possible causes are:
You can also run the call progress utility and

use the troubleshooting steps for call
progress problems with message notification. See Testing call progress on
page 466.
The guest chose not to be in the directory.
The guest did not record his or her name

for the directory.
No spelled name was entered in the system by the guest, hotel staff, or the PMS.
If an external caller cant locate a guest in

the directory, check to see whether the
guest is listed with the room or whether the
guest has checked out.
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Problems related to Tall Hotel

If calls or messages to guests are intermittently misdirected to incorrect guest rooms
in a facility that has the Tall Hotel field set
to Yes on the Hospitality Setup screen,
perform the next procedure, To troubleshoot misdirected calls or guest messages
when the Tall Hotel? field is set to Yes.
To troubleshoot misdirected calls or guest

messages when the Tall Hotel? field
is set to Yes
1 Verify the circumstances of the misdirected calls by creating the call log for
the days that the misdirected calls
occurred.
2 Confirm that the Tall Hotel ID entry
delay field on the Hospitality Setup
screen is set to at least 2 seconds. See
Using overlapping room extension
numbers on page 228.
3 Check to see whether the misdirected
calls could be the result of hotel employees anticipating system instructions and
entering numbers before the actual system instructions say to. If this appears to
be a likely cause, hotel staff should
receive additional training.
4 If transfers to guests fail, or callers
remain on hold without a transfer
attempt, confirm that the Integration
options field on Switch Setup screen
page 1 contains TIA,,,. See Using overlapping room extension numbers on
page 228.
5 If guest message lamps are not lit for
new messages when the TIA integration
option is used, confirm that the Message lamp on and Message lamp off
fields on the Switch Setup screen page 2
have two commas following the lamp
codes.
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Only some PMS features are working correctly

If some, but not all PMS features work, use a
text editor to check the Pms.ini file on the
voice messaging system. Confirm that the
beginning of the file says that it is the right
protocol used for your PMS or phone system. If the Pms.ini file is corrupted, either
replace the file with a backup version or
copy the correct one from the voice messaging system compact disc.
If you copy the file from the compact disc,

locate the INI file that matches your PMS
protocol (for example, for the CLS protocol,
the file name is Cls.ini). Copy the file over
the Pms.ini file, renaming it to Pms.ini.
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PMS and voice messaging system communication problems

There may be communication problems
between the PMS and voice messaging system if there is no communication between
the PMS and the voice messaging system, if
the PMS system is not checking in a guest,
or if guests are not receiving messages.
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Try the following corrective actions to confirm that the voice messaging systems software is set up and functioning correctly.
Confirm that the voice messaging system software is set up and functioning.
See To confirm that the voice messaging system software is set up and functioning on page 541.
Change the communication settings.

See To change the communication settings on page 541.
Confirm that the voice messaging systems hardware is set up and functioning
correctly. See To confirm that the voice
messaging systems hardware is set up
and functioning correctly on page 542.
Test the COM port. See To test the COM

port on page 542.
To confirm that the voice messaging system

software is set up and functioning
1 Confirm that the software version on the

voice messaging system is correct. At the
console, exit to the Banner screen and
press F5 to display version information.
Look for HVM PMS, which indicates
that the Hospitality package and the
PMS Integration are both installed.
2 Confirm that the Sbpms.ini file is
present on the voice messaging system.
3 Confirm that the correct communication parameters are used for the PMS.
Using a text editor, check that the correct PMS protocol is at the beginning of
the Pms.ini file. If the Pms.ini file is not
the correct one for your protocol, copy
the correct one from the voice messaging system compact disc. Locate the INI
file that matches your PMS protocol (for
example, for the CLS protocol, the file
name is Cls.ini). Copy the file over the
Pms.ini file, renaming it to Pms.ini.
4 Confirm that the PMS is set up for a
voice messaging integration. To determine this, see the PMS documentation
or contact the manufacturer of your
PMS.
5 The communication parameters for
baud, parity, data bits, and stop bits on
the voice messaging system must match
the parameters on the PMS to enable
serial communications. If they do not
match, perform the procedure To
change the communication settings,
on this page.
To change the communication settings
1 Insert the voice messaging installation

disc in the CD-ROM drive.
2 Go to a command prompt and change
to the CD-ROM drive (usually drive F).
3 Type setup and press ENTER.
4 In the Voice Mail Setup box, choose
Yes, select the drive where the voice
messaging system is installed (usually
drive D), and then choose OK.
5 In the Choose Setup Type box, select
Reconfigure system and choose OK.
6 In the System Detected box, follow the
on-screen instructions.
7 In the Update Configuration box, select
Change PMS configuration and
choose OK.
8 In the Select Additional Hardware box,
select COM port for PMS and choose
OK.
9 Follow the on-screen instructions to
complete the installation.
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541
To confirm that the voice messaging systems

hardware is set up and functioning correctly
1 Confirm that you have plugged the system key into the parallel port on the
voice messaging system computer.
2 Confirm that the serial link used with the
PMS integration is firmly connected to
the correct serial port.
3 Use a known, good serial link cable to
test whether your cable is defective.
4 A null modem adapter may be required
between the voice messaging system
and the PMS, depending on the hardware used. Add it, if needed.
5 Confirm that the dip switches are set
correctly for the multiple serial port
board. If you use a serial board purchased separately from the PMS integration, follow the manufacturers
instructions to set it up to use the hardware-interrupt and base-address settings.
6 Confirm that the serial board added for
the PMS integration does not have an
IRQ conflict with other system hardware.
See Table of IRQ settings in Appendix
D, Hardware Settings and Connections, in the Installation Guide.
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Test the COM port for proper

communication between the voice
messaging system and the PMS
If data can be sent from the voice messaging
system to the PMS, but not from the PMS to
the voice messaging system, then the PMS
is not sending information properly to the
Perform the next procedure, To test the
COM port, and test the cable as well, using
the same procedure. Use the loop-back
tester supplied with your PMS Integration
package and the SIOCHK utility to test the
COM port used for the PMS Integration.
To test the COM port
1 Shut down the voice messaging system.

2 Plug the loop-back connector into the
COM port that the PMS is plugged into.
If you have a 9-pin COM port, use the
9-pin to 25-pin adapter included in your
kit.
3 At the Vmail directory, type siochk
and the number of the COM port and
press ENTER.
For example, type siochk2 to check
the COM2 port.
4 Follow the on-screen instructions. The
utility will test the COM port and notify
you of the results. If there is no response
after 60 seconds, COM2 is not functioning properly. Stop the test by pressing
CTRL+C if needed.
Guests are unable to use the voice

messaging system
A recently checked-in guest may hear the
message Im sorry, I did not hear your
selection when the guest tries to use voice
messaging. In some situations, it may take a
few minutes after a guest checks in before
the PMS sends the new guest information
to the voice messaging system. Confirm
that the guest was checked in, and that the
guest extension ID matches the phone
extension. Also, if easy message access is
used with the PMS integration, confirm that
it is set up correctly.
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Troubleshooting the ActiveFax package
This topic presents corrective actions for

various problems that you can encounter
when using the ActiveFax package.
Faxes are not being delivered or sent

If no faxes can be delivered, sent, or both,
perform the next procedure, To confirm
that fax port information is correctly
entered.
To confirm that fax port information is correctly

entered
1 Confirm that the fax port numbers in the

Fax port status fields are entered in the
same order in which the fax lines are
plugged into the systems fax boards.
2 Confirm that the Fax port status field
on the Fax Setup screen is set up properly. Confirm that the Fax port status
fields contain the values that you want
(Ans, A/D, Dial, or Off). If the settings do
not appear on the screen, it may be necessary to restart the voice messaging system. Wait until after business hours,
when no voice or fax ports are busy, and
restart the voice messaging system. After
you have restarted the system, try sending or receiving a fax.
3 Confirm that the fax port station numbers are entered correctly on Application
screen page 1.
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TROUBLESHOOTING THE ACTIVEFAX PACKAGE
Custom fax mail logo appears

stretched on the fax mail cover sheet
If a custom fax logo looks stretched, confirm that the file containing your fax mail
logo is a Group 3 TIFF file in standard
mode, rather than fine mode. If the file is in
fine mode, resave the file in standard mode
and copy it to the voice messaging system
directory.
Fax board appears to be disconnected

If the fax board appears to be disconnected,
the phone extension may have the wrong
type of connector. The two-port and fourport fax boards require a two-pair RJ-11 line
and the one-port fax board requires a single-pair line. See the fax board backplate
and settings topic for your fax board in
Appendix D, Hardware Settings and Connections, in the Installation Guide.
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Fax mail deliveries to an external phone

are not working
Fax tone detection problems after an

upgrade
If fax mail is not being delivered to a specific

external phone, ask the subscriber to check
the fax delivery phone number by calling in
and reviewing setup options over the
phone. The specified phone number must
be complete and correct. Also, on the Fax
Setup screen, confirm that the Fax outdial
access field contains the number that must
be entered to reach a line outside the phone
system. Also confirm that there are the correct number of pauses (commas) included
for dialing out.
If fax tone detection problems occur on a

system that used an earlier version of faxon-demand, delete any CNG value used in
the Startup field on Application screen
page 8.
Fax mail is not delivered after a

subscriber requests delivery
If fax mail deliveries are not received after a
subscriber request, ask the subscriber to
check the fax delivery phone number by
calling in and reviewing the setup options
over the phone. The subscriber may have
changed delivery to a line outside the phone
system, rather than a number at your establishment.
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Callers are on hold and cannot get

through to a fax machine
If you have multiple fax ports, set the port to
ANS (Answer only), or to A/D (Answer/
Dial out) if the port is also needed for dialing out. If the system has only one fax port,
confirm that the Fax port status field is set
to A/D (Answer/Dial out). If the system
has one fax port and the problem persists,
you may need to add additional fax ports.
Contact your sales representative.
Im sorry, I cant receive (or deliver) a

fax at this time
If callers hear this message while trying to
deliver a fax message or perform another
fax mail function, perform the next procedure, To troubleshoot fax receipt or delivery problems.
To troubleshoot fax receipt or delivery problems
1 Confirm that the numbers in the Fax

port station field are entered correctly
2 Confirm that the system key is fully
plugged into the parallel port. If there
still is a problem, you may not have the
correct key, or the key may be defective.
3 On the Fax Setup screen, confirm that
the Fax outdial access field contains
the number that must be entered to
reach a line outside the phone system.
Also confirm that the correct number of
pauses (commas) are included for dialing out.
4 You may need to restart the voice messaging system. Wait until after business
hours, when no voice or fax ports are
busy, and then restart the voice messaging system. Send or receive a fax to test
the system.
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Fax mail cover sheet is unaddressed

Complete the subscribers Name field on
the subscribers personal directory page.
No answer when trying to call the

system to submit a document to the
fax-on-demand library
A fax port must be temporarily reset to
receive a document submission to the faxon-demand library. Set a Fax port status
field on the Fax Setup screen to Off. Send
the fax-on-demand document to the system
and wait for the document to be received.
Afterwards, reset the Fax port status field
back to its original setting.
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A subscriber is not notified of a fax, or

the fax notification is delayed
If a subscriber does not receive notification
of a fax, confirm that the Fax delivery field
on the Expanded Notification Options
screen accessed from the subscribers personal directory page, specifies the correct
phone number and notification delivery
schedule.
Personal fax box cannot be deleted

Deleting a personal fax box requires deleting the subscriber from the system. However, you can make personal fax boxes
inaccessible. To do this, type $ (dollar
sign) at the beginning of the subscribers fax
ID.
System fails to transfer callers sending

fax mail messages
M189-3 E9-0 D0 appears on the Banner

screen
If callers hear Ill transfer you to a fax

machine now. When you hear the fax tone,
press the start button on your fax machine
and then callers hear the opening greeting
after a long pause, confirm that the fax port
station numbers (extension numbers) are
entered and correct on Application screen
page 1.
Specify a value in the Fax port station field

Trimming the top of fax-on-demand

library originals is not working when
adding documents to the fax-ondemand library
This capability works with faxes originating
only from devices using CCITT Group 3 fax
communications. Use CCITT Group 3 communications to transmit the new document
to the fax-on-demand library.
M238-36 E9-0 Dx appears on the

Banner screen
No fax port is properly set up to answer the
call, or at least one Fax port status field on
the Fax Setup screen needs to be set to
A/D (Answer/Dial out) or ANS (Answer
only).
Multiple print copies of a fax are

requested, yet only one copy prints
The Number of copies selection is not
functional. Only one copy of a fax can be
sent to a printer at a time.
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Multisite Messaging troubleshooting
After troubleshooting any Multisite Messaging problem, reset the Total failed calls
field to 0 (zero) on the applicable Remote
Network Site screen. This field records the
number of times an error occurred since the
last successful communication with the site.
If this number is equal to the setting for the
Maximum failed calls allowed field, the
local site will not send messages to the
remote site.
Local site does not dial out at the

specified message delivery time
Confirm that the Phone #1 field is set up
with the correct number. If you are using a
second delivery phone number, confirm
that the Phone #2 field is also set up. Also,
confirm that the public phone number is set
up correctly at both the remote and the
local site. See Site information on
page 193.
If the local site still does not dial out after
you have solved a problem that was stopping message delivery on a remote site, type
0 (zero) in the Total failed calls field on
the applicable Remote Network Site screen.
This resets the remote site to active status.
Voice error and pager notices

If a participating site is out of service, the
system sends a voice error notice to the person designated to receive public messages
(on the Fax Setup screen) and a text message appears on the console. Go to the
applicable Remote Network Site screen. If
the Last call status field has an error message, perform the actions as described in
the next subtopic, Last call status messages.
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Last call status messages

Each time a local site attempts to deliver
voice messages to a remote site, a status
message appears in the Status field in the
Calls section on the applicable Remote Network Site screen.
Local or remote abort
The site terminated message delivery
because a problem occurred during
transmission. Attempt message delivery
again by following the schedule or by
changing it to transmit sooner. Also, the
system manager at the remote site can
note the Status field for your sites
Remote Network Site screen and perform the indicated actions for the error
message.
Local or remote disk full
The hard disk is full and cannot accept
new messages. Have subscribers
promptly review and delete messages
from the system.
Local or remote protocol error

Protocol errors result from syntax errors
or from voice messaging software that is
not compatible with the latest AMIS
standards. Attempt message delivery
again by following the schedule or by
changing it to transmit sooner to a
pager. Confirm that local and remote
sites are using compatible protocol versions.
Local or remote frame or record error
An incomplete or out-of-sequence data
frame was sent during message delivery.
Frame errors result when DTMFs do not
have sufficient volume or duration. The
site may also have received unexpected
touchtones during message transmission, or had a problem recording messages.
Adjust the local sites DTMF sensitivity.
Using a Ziad LineMaster, test the line for
a low-level DTMF volume. If these problems persist, create the error log report
for the date the error occurred, and then
contact Technical Support for assistance
with error codes.
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Local or remote refused this site

The local or remote sites phone number
may not be entered correctly. Verify the
local and remote sites phone numbers.
See Site information on page 193 and
Adding a remote site on page 200.
Also, the site may be using the S
(screen) option in the Restrictions
field on the Remote Network Site screen,
and will not accept calls from this site.
Delete s from the Restrictions field.
If s is not present, confirm that the
correct system numbers appear in the
Phone #1 and Phone #2 fields on
both the Remote Network Site screen
and the Networking Setup screen.
Local or remote refusing all
The local site will not accept message
delivery calls from remote sites. This status may not be a problem. On the Networking Setup screen, set the Accept
incoming network calls? field to Yes.
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Local or remote time-out error

The site receives no data or reply from
the other site. Both sites attempt to
resume communications, but disconnect when no reply signal is returned. At
both sites, confirm that the system is
running and that communications were
not interrupted. Then attempt message
delivery again. If the connection
involves an international phone call,
relay delays may cause the local site to
time out while waiting for the remote
site to answer. You can add commas
after the message delivery phone number. Each comma creates a 1-second
delay that extends the time-out period.
No answer
The local site cannot connect with a
remote site because of a busy signal or
no answer to the ring. Confirm that you
have the correct message delivery
phone number for the remote site. Call
the remote site during the specified
message delivery time and confirm that
the lines are busy or are not answering.
Successful
This status message indicates that the
call was completed successfully.
Wrong number
A person answered the phone at the
beginning of a message delivery and
pressed a touchtone key. The site treats
this call as a wrong number, sets the
Total failed calls field to the maximum
value, and does not dial the number
again. Confirm that the message delivery phone number in the Phone #1
and Phone #2 fields are correct on the
applicable Remote Network Site screen.
Wrong setup tone
The remote site issued a DTMF other
than the D touchtone. Confirm that
the opening greeting is 10 seconds or
more in duration, and that the delivery
phone number for the remote site is correct.
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Troubleshooting remote maintenance
Corrective actions for various problems that

you can encounter when using remote
maintenance are presented in this topic.
Remote computer locks up during restart

There may be a COM port conflict. Remove
or disable an SIO board, a voice board, or a
mouse that may be using the same COM
port as the modem, or assign the modem to
another COM port.
See Setting up a remote computers phone
book in Chapter 18, Remote Maintenance, in the Installation Guide.
Login ID not accepted error message

appears when attempting to establish a
connection
The logon and password name are case sensitive and must be set up exactly the same
on both the host and remote computers.
Confirm that the host computers phone
book entry uses the same logon name and
password as the host computers logon
name and password. If you are installing the
Windows Remote and OS/2 Host, the software defaults to support as the logon
name and voice as the password. Try the
defaults if you are not sure whether a logon
name and password are set up.
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Unable to open the communications

channel
If this error message appears on the remote
computer when attempting to establish a
connection, there may be a communications setting conflict. Check that the settings used in the phone book entry match
those for the modem.
Invalid command
If this error message appears on the host
computers screen when a remote computer
attempts to establish a connection, the OS/
2 Host may be set up incorrectly. For details,
see Customizing settings on the host computer in Chapter 18, Remote Maintenance, in the Installation Guide.
Unable to establish a connection with

the host computer
Sometimes the host computers modem
does not reset. Have someone on-site reset
the host computer. To reset the modem,
switch to the Cosession screen and type
resetcs2 and then press ENTER.
TROUBLESHOOTING REMOTE MAINTENANCE
Timed-out waiting for specific

response
If this error message appears on the remote
computer when you try to establish a connection, the connection can be established
through a transaction box on the host computer. Perform the next procedure to
increase the Wait response time.
To increase the wait response time
1 On the remote computer, exit Windows

Remote.
2 Use a text editor to edit the Csw.ini file
(usually stored in the C:\Csw directory).
3 In the Serial setup window section,
change the setting to 90 in the line
Wait response time= .
4 Save the file, then retry the connection.
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TROUBLESHOOTING REMOTE MAINTENANCE
Timed-out waiting for a connect

If this error message appears when trying to
establish a connection, the phone number
may be incorrect or the modems phone line
may be connected incorrectly. Confirm that
the host computers phone book entry is
correct, including the phone number, baud
rate, and modem type. Check the phone
line used for the connection. Replace it or
test it on another connection.
Confirm that the phone line is connected to
the correct socket in the modem, and confirm that the COM port for the default
phone book entry is the same as the
modems COM port setting. Repeat the
steps to set up OS/2 Host as described in
either Customizing settings on the host
computer or Setting up a remote computers phone book in Chapter 18,
Remote Maintenance, in the Installation
Guide.
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Abnormal disconnects occur when

transferring a file using remote
maintenance
The voice messaging computers modem
may not be connected to a public phone
network line. Because most phone systems
are not compatible with industry-standard
modems, confirm that the modem is connected to a direct analog line. Or try setting
the systems baud rate to 9600.
C H A P T E R 2 0
Training
Training overview ............................................. 558

Training subscribers......................................... 559
Training operators and receptionists ............. 565
Training hotel staff ........................................... 566
Training system managers............................... 568
Training for recording greetings and
prompts............................................................. 569
Training checklist.............................................. 571
Training memo ................................................. 572
CHAPTER 20: TRAINING
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Training overview
After you are familiar with the voice messaging system and how it operates, you can
train others to use the system.
A sample Training checklist, which you

can use to organize and teach training,
appears on page 571.
This chapter outlines how to train others

to make full use of the voice messaging system, and includes tips for training:
A sample training memo appears in the

topic Training memo on page 572. Use the
training memo to introduce subscribers to
the features of their new voice messaging
system.
Subscribers
Operators and receptionists
Hotel staff
System managers
The person who will record voice

prompts and greetings
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Training subscribers
Subscriber training is by far the most

important part of the training process. It is
crucial that subscribers understand and
value the voice messaging system.
The system has many features, but you
do not need to teach them all at once. Your
training will be more effective if you concentrate on the features essential for using
the system. As subscribers become familiar
with the basics or develop special needs,
you can provide additional training.
Keep the following guidelines in mind when
designing a training program:
Train in small groups. Seven to ten subscribers is a good number.
Hold the training sessions at a convenient time in a place that is free from
interruptions.
Use a speakerphone so that everyone in

the room can hear.
Before the training session

1 Set up a test subscriber on the system.
2 Record a name and a personal greeting
for the test subscriber.
3 Turn off call transfer for the test subscriber.
4 Put a subscriber-to-subscriber message
in the test subscribers mailbox that says
something like:
Hi, welcome to the voice messaging
system. This is what we call a subscriberto-subscriber message, which is one
subscriber leaving a message for another
subscriber. These messages are always
presented alphabetically by the last
name of the person leaving the message.
While listening to a message, press 3 to
hear a menu of quick message actions,
such as deleting the message or replying
to it.
5 Prepare copies of the User Guide to distribute at the training sessions. For each
subscriber, write their name, extension,
and personal ID in the place specified in
the User Guide.
If there are users who need a large-print
version of the User Guide, print the User
Guide PDF file from the voice messaging
compact disc enlarged to 125 percent.
See also
Training checklist..................................... 571
Training memo......................................... 572
6 Set up a Help message box for questions

from subscribers and designate one
member of your support group to
respond to subscribers questions.
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TRAINING SUBSCRIBERS
The training session

The training session should cover the basic
functions of the voice messaging system
and demonstrate to subscribers that the
system is easy to use. Here is a suggested
class outline:
1 Distribute the User Guide.

Stress that subscribers will not need it for
day-to-day use of the system, because
the systems prompts will lead them
through the system.
2 Leave a message as a caller.
Turn on the speakerphone and dial the
system as a caller. Wait until most of the
opening greeting has played before
pressing the touchtone keys.
If the system has directory assistance,
enter the System ID for the directory and
demonstrate how a caller selects a subscriber from the directory. If the system
does not have directory assistance, dial
the extension for the test subscriber.
Because call transfer is turned off, the
test subscriber is unavailable. The system plays the subscribers greeting and
offers to take a message. Leave a simple
message such as: Hello, Ms. Jones, this
is Sam Smith. Please call me as soon as
you get this message. Thank you. Hang
up.
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3 Check messages as a subscriber.

Call in as the test subscriber to check
messages. When the system answers,
enter the test subscribers Personal ID.
Let the system greet you, announce the
number of new messages (there will be
two), play the sample message you
recorded before the session, and ask for a
reply.
4 Record a short reply.

When the system plays the message you
recorded in step 2 and prompts for a
reply, record a short response to the
message. When the system says There
are no further messages, press * (star
character) three times and hang up.
Explain that messages from subscribers
are identified by name, while messages
from callers are tagged as being from
your message box.
5 Listen to the test subscribers reply.

Call the system as in step 3, but this time
call as yourself and enter your Personal
ID. Listen to the reply from the test subscriber and hang up.
6 Send a message to another subscriber.
Call the system. When it answers, enter
your Personal ID. Press 5, then follow the
instructions to leave a message for the
test subscriber. After leaving a brief message, hang up.
7 Stress the importance of using a

security code.
A security code protects subscribers
from the unapproved use of their voice
mailboxes and protects their businesses
from fraudulent use of the voice messaging system. Encourage subscribers to:
Change their security code frequently. Use a code that is easy to

remember but difficult for others to
guess.
Never tell anyone their security code

or write it down.
Tell the system manager if their User

Guide is lost or stolen.
8 Summarize the entire procedure.

Emphasize that callers just need to listen
and enter menu options. To prove how
easy it is to leave a message, ask someone in the class to leave a message for the
test subscriber, and talk the person
through the process.
9 Answer questions and encourage
everyone to call the system to check
for new messages.
10 Consider TeLANophy and E-Mail
Integration training.
See TeLANophy training on page 562
and E-Mail Integration on page 564.
The day after

The day after the training session, record a
group message for all subscribers, soliciting
problems and questions. If you receive a
message indicating that a subscriber is confused or frustrated with the voice messaging system, call or visit that person to better
understand the problem and help resolve it.
In addition, protect the voice messaging
system from unapproved access by checking the Personal Directory frequently during the first few days to be sure that new
subscribers are enrolling by phone.
To see who has and has not enrolled, run
the subscriber report. Never in the Last
contact column means that a subscriber
has not enrolled. Contact any subscribers
who have not enrolled and encourage them
to do so as soon as possible. After everyone
has enrolled, delete unused voice mailboxes from the system.
One week after

A week after the training session, leave a
group message for all subscribers asking
them to call you with any questions or
problems.
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Yes-and-No conversation
TeLANophy training
Some subscribers may want to use the systems Yes-and-No conversation instead of
the menu conversation. You can tell subscribers that the Yes-and-No conversation is
available by leaving a group message or
mentioning the Yes-and-No conversation in
the training memo.
TeLANophy is a suite of applications that

combines features of the voice messaging
software, the phone system, and a LAN.
TeLANophy subscribers can manage live
phone calls and all types of messages visually on their computer screens. Subscribers
need to know the following basic information about using TeLANophy.
Setting up the Yes-and-No conversation is

easyjust remove the M access code from
the Access field for any subscriber who
prefers using the Yes-and-No conversation.
See Changing access options on page 312
Starting a TeLANophy application

To begin using a TeLANophy application, set up the application with the
voice messaging system server name
and protocol. Subscribers will need to
know their personal ID and security
code.
Subscribers can start a TeLANophy
application by double-clicking its icon.
If the system has more than one
TeLANophy package, subscribers can
double-click the ViewApps icon to start
all TeLANophy applications simultaneously.
Starting ViewMail for Microsoft
Messaging
ViewMail for Microsoft Messaging starts
automatically when the Microsoft Messaging application is started. Subscribers
can begin exchanging voice messages
after the Microsoft messaging application is installed and after ViewMail for
Microsoft Messaging is set up at each
workstation.
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Starting ViewFax, Print-to-Fax, and Fax

Library Express
To begin using Print-to-Fax or Fax
Library Express, set up the voice messaging system server name and protocol. Subscribers will need to know their
personal ID and security code.
Subscribers can start ViewFax and Fax
Library Express by using the ViewFax
and Fax Library Express icons. Subscribers can start Print-to-Fax by selecting
Print-to-Fax print driver as the printer
in the Print dialog box, and then printing a document.
How to get information about using
TeLANophy applications
Subscriber information is available in
an applications online Help. Subscribers can start online Help from their
workstations in the following ways:
Click Contents on the Help menu.
Press F1 in the TeLANophy application.
Click the Help button in a dialog

box.
In Program Manager for Windows

3.1, double-click the TeLANophy
applications online Help icon in the
TeLANophy program group. In Windows 2000, Windows 95, or Windows
NT 4.0, choose Start, point to Programs, point to TeLANophy, and
then choose the TeLANophy applications online Help.
ViewCall Plus PIM integrations

Subscribers can use the instructions in
online Help to set up and use personal
information manager (PIM) integrations
with ViewCall Plus. If a PIM requires a
user to log on when starting the application, start the PIM before starting ViewCall Plus.
To access PIM setup in online Help for ViewCall
Plus
1 From the ViewCall Plus Options menu,

choose Personal database.
2 Choose OK to accept the message in
the PIM Configuration dialog box.
3 From the Personal Options Database
Welcome window, choose Help.
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E-Mail Integration
The E-Mail Integration package consists of
two applications:
E-Mail Notify/Delivery. With this base

application, subscribers hear about new
e-mail messages through the voice messaging system. E-Mail Notify/Delivery
also sends messages to the e-mail system, notifying subscribers of voice mail
messages waiting on the voice messaging system.
E-Mail Reader. This optional feature lets
subscribers listen to their e-mail messages from any touchtone phone.
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Introduce subscribers to e-mail integration

by asking them to perform the following
tasks:
Check e-mail by phone.
Receive e-mail by fax (if you also have

the optional ActiveFax package).
Check personal calendar by phone

(available with some e-mail systems).
Check tasks by phone (available with

some e-mail systems).
Hear the number of new e-mail messages you have. For example, There are
no new voice or fax messages. Please
wait while I check e-mail. You have two
new e-mail messages.
Training operators and receptionists
The operator, or receptionist, is an advocate

for the voice messaging system and needs
to understand its benefits: for example, the
system answers calls on fewer rings, transfers calls more quickly, records long messages, and delivers messages in the callers
own voice. The operators attitude and
comfort level with the system can have a
significant influence on system acceptance
by subscribers and external callers.
Where to train
Hold operator training at a phone console
identical to the one the operator uses. This
means you will teach the operator at the
customer site in most cases. It is crucial that
the operator not handle calls during training. Forward calls to another phone or console, or have someone else handle calls
while the operator is in training.
Training operators to handle the voice

messaging system
Teach the operator how to answer calls
transferred from the system versus from
direct phone lines. Sometimes there is no
way to tell the difference between direct
calls and system transfers. In this case, help
the operator come up with a suitable
phrase that can be used to answer all types
of calls.
If the voice messaging system is used as an

automated attendant, acting as a receptionist by answering and routing calls, encourage the operator to tell callers the extension
they are being transferred to. This will help
educate frequent callers and lighten the
operators call load. The operator also must
know how to transfer calls into voice mailboxes. The timing of the transfer is fairly
critical on some phone systems, so have the
operator practice a few times with you on
the line as the caller.
While training the operator, look for ways to
make things easier on the particular operator console. For example, you may be able
to program speed-dial numbers or buttons
to help the operator transfer calls to voice
messaging.
Follow up
Make yourself available for several days
after the training session to answer questions. Also, follow up in a week or so to
check that the operator is comfortable with
the system.
See also
prompts .................................................... 569
565
Training hotel staff
To help staff members understand how the

guest messaging service works, you can lead
them through the following exercise. Modify
step 2, if necessary, to include only the
options the hotel will be using.
4 Have the guest call the front desk, and

have a staff member transfer the guest
to the mailbox.
The guest should save the practice message after reviewing it.
Use a speakerphone during the training session so that all of the training participants
can hear the system conversation.
5 Have the guest check out.

Before resetting the mailbox, staff
members should ask if the guest
has checked for any new messages.
1 Select a guest room extension to use

for practice.
2 Have a staff member pose as a hotel
guest and practice the tasks associated
with the first-time guest enrollment
conversation that your hotel will be
using:
Choose a language (if the Multilingual Guest Conversation package is

installed).
Record a personal greeting.
Enroll in the guest directory.
Set a password.
Set a wake-up call.
3 Have another staff member call the

practice extension and leave a
message.
See also
Hotel Front Desk Card
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6 After checkout, have the guest call

in and ask for messages.
Have a staff member practice transferring
the checked-out guest to the appropriate
mailbox.
If you have a PMS integration, staff may
need additional training on:
Automatic check-in and checkout
Automatic password assignment
Mailbox merge and room change
Restoring a room
Disabling guest messaging
TRAINING HOTEL STAFF
Creating reports
Hotel guest passwords
The hotel staff may want to obtain a current

list of all guests. The hotel guests report can
be created at any time and either printed or
viewed at the console. The hotel staff may
also want to practice creating reports for
pending wake-up calls, wake-up call log,
and wake-up call failures.
Hotel guests sometimes forget their personal passwords. When this happens, a
hotel staff member can go to the Hotel
Guests screen, press F7, select Password,
and then press y to delete. You can also
delete a guest password through the system
manager conversation. After deleting the
password, the guest can call the voice messaging system and enter a new password.
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Training system managers
To effectively train a system manager, you

must know the system well enough to be a
system manager yourself. You should know
how to operate and configure the system at
the console, as well as by phone.
A system manager needs a broad understanding of the voice messaging system,
because he or she will be expected to
respond to questions and provide one-onone assistance. All system managers should
be able to perform routine maintenance
such as:
Adding and deleting subscribers
Rerecording the opening greeting
Signing in at the console
Modifying system default settings
Creating new groups and transaction

boxes
Consider scheduling more advanced training sessions later to cover creating reports,
backing up the system, changing schedules,
and customizing the system as needed.
When training a system manager, use a
working voice messaging system. Your
dealer may have a demonstration or training system set up for this purpose.

The system manager training session
should be at least one hour long. It must be
held on a functioning voice messaging system, preferably away from the customer
site. The best location is usually the
installers office. If you must hold the training at the customers site, the session should
be away from the trainees usual work space
and kept free of interruptions.
The trainee should already be comfortable
using the system as a subscriber.
Follow up
After training a system manager, you should
be available for several days to answer questions. It may be wise to schedule two separate training sessions one week apart.
See also
prompts .................................................... 569
568
Training for recording greetings and prompts
The voice messaging system comes with

hundreds of standard prompts already
recorded, so that customers can begin
using the system as soon as possible. However, some customers like to have a familiar
voice on their system, and having someone
available at the site who can record modifications and updates is convenient.
Keep in mind that the voice messaging system may be the first contact a caller has
with the organization. Following these
guidelines will help ensure that callers have
a pleasant experience. Apply these principles when recording greetings and
prompts:
Be informative
Callers need signposts along the way.
For example, if they call after working
hours, make sure that the night greeting
gives regular business hours and
explains how to leave a message.
Be courteous and welcoming
All callers deserve the best service. Make
greetings and prompts courteous and
welcoming. Have the system acknowledge callers at each step with prompts
such as, Thank you, Ill transfer you
now.
See also
System Conversation Guide, on the voice
messaging compact disc
Give callers options

Callers need to feel they are in control.
If given choices in a friendly, straightforward manner, callers will make their
choices confidently. Let callers know
they have options: they can leave a
message; they can reach an operator at
any time; they can choose to hold; they
can enter another extension if the one
they have called is busy; if they have
touchtone phones, they can repeat any
prompt by pressing #; or they can return
to their previous choice.
Give callers no more than four choices
at one time. Put the most frequently
used choices in the opening greeting.
Sound pleasantly professional
The recorded greetings and prompts
should sound professional but also have
a pleasant, human quality. Callers will
be much more likely to listen to and follow clear, friendly prompts. Try to use
only one voice when recording prompts.
Hearing one reassuring, friendly voice
will help make callers feel comfortable.
The way in which greetings and prompts
are phrased is also important. If you
know your partys extension, you may
enter it at any time sounds friendlier
than Enter the extension you are calling
now.
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TRAINING FOR RECORDING GREETINGS AND PROMPTS

The recorder should understand the voice
messaging system from both the callers and
the subscribers perspectives. The training
session for recording greetings and prompts
should include:
An overview of the system features and

console screens.
How to record at the console (see Making a recording on page 428).
Proper use of tone (not squeaky high or

too deep), intonation (friendly with a
good rhythm), volume (loud enough to
hear but not so loud as to distort), and
timing (no pauses after names, pauses
in prompts where appropriate).
Preparation of a written script.
Practice recording new greetings and

prompts. Listen to the practice recordings on the phone and adjust volume
and tone as needed.
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A good voice training session requires about

an hour. If the person will also be recording
the prompts and names for the system,
allow an extra hour or two.
Before recording prompts and names,
practice different types of recordings
(names and prompts) with the recorder.
Listen to the recordings by phone for volume and tone.
Remember that the person making the
recording may be sensitive to criticisms of
his or her voice. Select words of instruction
and criticism carefully and give plenty of
encouragement. You want the person
speaking to enjoy making the recording,
because that enjoyment will come through
in the recordings, enhancing the sound of
the system.
Training checklist
Use this checklist to help organize and track

training.
Local site information
Site name_______________________________________________________________________________________
System Manager name(s) _________________________________________________________________________
Operator name __________________________________________________________________________________
People trained to record prompts _________________________________________________________________
Configuration
Automated
Attendant
(circle features in use)

Voice
Mail
Call Forward to
Personal Greeting
Message
Delivery
Message
Lamps
Item
Date Scheduled
Date Finished
Subscriber Training
_______________
_________________
Distribute memo
_______________
_________________
Distribute User Guides
_______________
_________________
Training Sessions
_______________
_________________
Group 1
_______________
_________________
Group 2
_______________
_________________
Group 3
_______________
_________________
Leave a starter group message
_______________
_________________
Leave a follow-up group message
_______________
_________________
_______________
_________________
First training session
_______________
_________________
Follow-up session
_______________
_________________
_______________
_________________
First training session
_______________
_________________
Follow-up session
_______________
_________________
_______________
_________________
System Manager Training
Operator Training
Recording Prompts Training
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Training memo
You can use the training memo on page 573

to introduce subscribers to the features of
the new voice messaging system. On the
memo, check the appropriate boxes for the
system features that will be used at your
site. Then, photocopy this memo for every
subscriber and distribute it with the subscribers User Guide. Fill in the subscribers
name, extension, and personal ID in the
specified place in each subscribers User
Guide.
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You may want to send a group message to

all users welcoming them to the voice messaging system and encouraging them to
send you a reply. That gives them practice
using the system and lets you know they are
enrolled and using it.
TRAINING MEMO
MEMORANDUM
To:
From: System Manager, Extension________
Re: The new voice messaging system
We have installed a new voice messaging

system. Its menu-based, so its easy to use.
All you have to do is listen to the menu and
enter the number for a particular task. The
User Guide provides tips on how to use the
systems many time-saving features and
lists all the tasks you can accomplish and
their corresponding keys.
Instead of menus, the system can also be
set up to play the Yes-and-No conversation,
where you press 1 for Yes and 2 for No. If
you prefer to hear the Yes-and-No conversation, please let me know.
The system:
Answers all incoming calls.
The system will notify you of waiting messages:
Answers incoming calls only when the

receptionist is busy.
By lighting the message waiting lamp on

your phone.
Provides voice mail only.
By displaying a message on your phone.
Automatically takes a message for you if

your extension is busy or does not
answer.
By activating a special dial tone on your

phone.
By calling your phone once every 30
minutes.
By saying you have new messages when
you call the system.
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C H A P T E R 2 1
Glossary
GLOSSARY
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Glossary
AMIS
ACCESS CODES
See Audio Messaging Interchange

Specification (AMIS).
Codes that control the system features that are

available to the subscriber. These codes are
entered in a field on a subscribers page in the
Personal Directory, or on Application screen
page 7.
ACTION
What the system does when processing a call.

For example, an action can be taking a message, routing to the operator, or saying goodbye. You specify the system action with action
values.
ARCHIVED MESSAGE
A message a subscriber listens to and then

saves for a number of days. The system manager sets the number of days that messages
are archived. Archived messages must be
saved each time they are heard, or they are
deleted. See also new message and old
message.
AUDIO MESSAGING INTERCHANGE
SPECIFICATION (AMIS)
An optional package that adds two components to your voice messaging system, fax mail
and fax-on-demand.
See also fax mail and fax-on-demand.
An analog protocol used to facilitate communication between voice messaging systems at

different sites. AMIS supports the most common voice messaging functions, including
sending, receiving, and replaying messages.
See also PLUSNET-1.
ALPHABETIC DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
AUDIOTEXT
Lets callers reach a subscribers extension ID

by spelling the first few letters of the name on
a touchtone keypad. Subscribers can spell the
first few letters of the first name or last name,
depending on the system setup. See also
directory assistance and numeric directory
assistance.
Recorded information that is available to callers 24 hours a day. It can include menus of
information or other messages; audiotext
messages can be used in menu keys.
ACTIVEFAX PACKAGE
ALTERNATE GREETING
A substitute greeting for a voice mailbox,

transaction box, or voice detect box that can
be recorded and turned on over the phone.
The alternate greeting can be used as a 24hour-a-day greeting in place of the day greeting or night greeting. See also boxs greeting.
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AUTOMATED ATTENDANT
A group of features that allows the voice messaging system to act as a receptionist to
answer and route incoming calls. Callers hear
a recording, and then route themselves to an
extension through touchtone input.
AUTOMATIC DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
See alphabetic directory assistance.
AUTOMATIC FAX
BROADCAST DISTRIBUTION
Functionality that allows faxes to be sent

automatically, without human monitoring.
When the voice messaging system answers
the call and detects a fax tone, the system
transfers the call to the fax extension automatically. See also manual fax.
Allows each member of a message group to

receive and hear messages sent to the
group. This is the default setting for all message groups created by phone. See also
dispatch distribution.
BUSY GREETING
AWAIT ANSWER
A call transfer option in which the voice

messaging system waits for the extension to
be answered before completing a transfer to
that extension. One of three types of call
transfer. See also release and wait for
ringback.
B
BATCH DELIVERY
A message delivery process in which the

voice messaging system collects messages
and then calls subscribers at regularly
scheduled intervals to let them know they
have messages. The system manager sets up
the delivery intervals. One of three message
delivery methods. See also each delivery;
message notification; and urgent message.
BOXS GREETING
A recorded greeting or menu of options in a

transaction box. The box owner is responsible for recording the box greeting. See also
alternate greeting; day greeting; and night
greeting.
The recording that plays when a subscribers extension is busy.

BUSY PORTS REPORT
Provides data on how often ports are busy,

whether phone ports are full or nearly full
during peak times, and the average percentage of time the ports are busy during a
specific time period. A report can be created
for an individual port, for a group of ports,
or for all ports on the system.
C
CALL ANNOUNCE
A call transfer option that causes the system

to beep when connecting a caller.
CALL CONFIRM
A call transfer option that allows subscribers

to either accept a call or forward it to a voice
mailbox. See also call intro; call screening;
and memory screening.
CALL HOLDING
A function that allows callers to hold until

the busy extension they are calling becomes
free.
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CALL INTRO
CALL TRANSFER OPTIONS

to hear which subscriber the call is intended
for. Useful when two subscribers share an
extension. See also call confirm.
A set of options that are available if call

transfer is turned on and the await answer
call transfer type is selected. See also call
announce; call intro; call screening; and
gather ID.
CALL LOG
A record of every call, both incoming and

outgoing, that the voice messaging system
answers, dials, or routes. A log can be created for the entire system, or for an
individual subscriber or system ID. For further analysis of the data, the log can be
imported into most database and spreadsheet programs.
CONSOLE ENROLLMENT
Enrollment of subscribers by entering information about each subscriber at the system

console, including the complete spelled
name, recorded name, personal ID, and
extension ID. See also enrollment conversation and over-the-phone enrollment.
CONVERSATION
CALL ROUTING
The processing of calls through the voice

messaging system without transfer to the
phone system. See also call transfer.
CALL SCREENING

to hear information about the caller. See
also call transfer.
CALL TRANSFER
The transfer of calls from the voice messaging system to the phone system, which
takes control of connecting the call to an
extension. Call transfer can be turned on
and off. See also await answer; call routing;
release; and wait for ringback.
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The collection of prerecorded questions,

choices, and responses that the voice messaging system plays to guide callers through
the system. The conversation consists of
greetings and prompts. Greetings can be
changed over the phone or at the console.
Prompts can be changed at the console. See
also enrollment conversation and over-thephone conversation.
D
DAY GREETING
The greeting that plays during the days and

times designated as normal business hours.
See also alternate greeting and night
greeting.
DAY MODE
DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
The voice messaging systems operating

mode during normal business hours. The
system manager sets the voice messaging
system to function differently during day
mode and night mode hours, defining
which days of the week and hours of the day
are day mode. All other hours are assigned
to night mode. See also holiday schedule
and schedule.
DEFAULT
A directory of subscribers extension IDs

that is available to callers with lettered keypads. Callers can use directory assistance to
reach a subscribers extension ID without
speaking to an operator. Callers whose
phones do not have letters or who need
other special directory assistance can use
numeric directory assistance. See also
alphabetic directory assistance; directory
group; directory menu; and numeric directory assistance.
The setting the system uses if a user does

not select another option.
DIRECTORY GROUP
DIAL PULSE DETECTION
An optional voice messaging system configuration that enables the system to detect
and recognize pulse tones entered by callers
with rotary phones.
DIAL TONE DETECTION
Enables the voice messaging system to listen for a dial tone when initiating a dialout.
Upon initiating a dialout for message waiting indication or message delivery, the
system can listen to make sure a line is
available. Dial tone detection is accomplished through a feature called general
tone detection. See also general tone detection (GTD).
When callers request numeric directory

assistance, the system plays the names of
subscribers in the directory group and their
extensions. Directory groups are set up to
list subscribers with common characteristics such as department, location, or
schedule. See also numeric directory
assistance.
DIRECTORY ID
Used by callers to access numeric directory

assistance.
DIRECTORY MENU
Lists the names of directory groups or submenus. Used to automatically create onekey dialing menus for numeric directory
assistance.
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DIRECTORY REPORT
E-MAIL INTEGRATION
Shows the structure of the system: its subscribers, system IDs, message groups, and
numeric directory assistance. Reports can
be created for everyone enrolled in the system, for all extension IDs, for message
groups, and for numeric directory
assistance.
An optional package that integrates voice

messaging and e-mail systems. With e-mail
integration, subscribers can receive e-mail
messages along with voice messages. Subscribers can reply to, redirect, save, and
delete e-mail messages in the same way as
voice messages.
DISPATCH DISTRIBUTION
ENROLLMENT CONVERSATION
A distribution option used when only one

member of a group needs to hear a message. Once the message has been heard by a
group member, it is no longer distributed.
See also broadcast distribution.
A special conversation that plays for new

subscribers the first time they call the voice
messaging system; it walks subscribers
through the enrollment process. See also
console enrollment and over-the-phone
enrollment.
DTMF
Dual-tone multi-frequency. The system

used by touchtone phones to identify keys
that are pressed. DMTF assigns a specific
frequency, or tone, to each key so that it can
easily be identified by a microprocessor.
DTMF is used for user input and in analog
integrations.
ERROR LOG REPORT
Shows system errors; it includes the error

code, the port on which the error occurred,
and the date and time the error occurred.
EXTENSION
The actual phone number of a phone in

your system. The extension number may
not be the same as its extension ID. See also
extension ID.
EACH DELIVERY
EXTENSION ID
A message delivery process in which the

voice messaging system calls subscribers
each time they have a new message. See also
batch delivery; message notification; and
urgent message.
The number a caller uses to reach a subscribers voice mailbox. The extension ID is
not always the same as the actual phone
extension number. For example, if two subscribers share the same extension, they will
have different extension IDs for their separate voice mailboxes. See also extension.
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EXTERNAL CALLER
FAX LIBRARY
A caller from outside an organizations

phone system. In addition, a subscriber
who calls the system and does not enter a
personal ID will be treated as an external
caller. See also internal caller.
A central fax library, used by fax-ondemand, that is accessible to subscribers

and outside callers. Callers can request the
documents they want directly from your
library, and your organizations employees
can fax documents from the library to customers and business contacts. You can
custom-build your fax library to best serve
your organization. See also fax-on-demand.
F
FAX BOARD
A specialized synchronous modem

designed to transmit and receive facsimile
documents. The optional ActiveFax package
requires installation of one fax board for
every fax port on the voice messaging
system.
FAX DETECT
A function that allows the voice messaging

system to detect an incoming fax tone and
automatically deliver faxes to the appropriate extension, usually the public fax box.
FAX ID
A unique ID that identifies a subscribers fax

mailbox. The optional ActiveFax package
provides each subscriber with a fax mailbox
that stores faxes for each subscriber. See also
fax mail.
FAX LIBRARY ID
The unique system ID that identifies the fax

library. See also fax-on-demand.
FAX MAIL
Allows subscribers to receive fax mail in

personal fax boxes. Fax messages are stored
and delivered at the subscribers convenience. Fax mail is a component of the
optional ActiveFax package.
FAX NOTIFICATION

system to notify the operator each time it
delivers a fax. When this function is
enabled, the fax sender is given the opportunity to record a message describing the
fax and stating who the recipient is.
FAX-ON-DEMAND
Allows callers to select documents from a

fax library and have the documents faxed
directly to them. Subscribers can use the fax
library to send documents to customers or
business contacts. Fax-on-demand is a
component of the optional ActiveFax
package.
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FOLLOW ALONG ID
GREETING
The extension ID provided by the phone

system to the voice messaging system when
a call is forwarded back to the phone system
on a ring-no-answer or busy condition.
A recording that welcomes callers to the system, gives information, offers menu
options, or offers a chance to leave a message. If your organization uses the
automated attendant, the opening greeting
is what callers hear when they dial the main
phone number for the organization. A subscribers personal greeting is what callers
hear when they reach a subscribers voice
mailbox. See also alternate greeting; busy
greeting; and opening greeting.
FUTURE MESSAGE DELIVERY
A delivery option where subscribers can

specify a future date and time for a message
to be sent. This is often used to send automatic reminders to individuals or groups.
GROUP REPORT
A call transfer option that causes the system

to request a callers account and/or phone
number.
Shows all message groups, the members of a

particular group, the owners of private
groups, and the groups that a particular
subscriber or guest belongs to. See also
directory report.
GENERAL TONE DETECTION (GTD)
GUEST
A feature in the voice messaging system

used to determine the correct frequencies
for dial tone, reorder tone, and busy tone.
GTD is useful for phone systems that do not
provide immediate disconnect signaling;
when GTD is turned on, the voice messaging system listens for dial tone, reorder
tone, and busy tone.
A person who is hosted by a particular subscriber. A guest is given a guest mailbox and
allowed to trade two-way messages only
with the guests host. A guest can be a member of the hosts private message groups, but
cannot be a member of open message
groups.
GATHER ID
H
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
A special schedule mode that overrides the

normal schedule. The system manager uses
Application screen page 6 to define up to 18
holidays and record up to 18 associated holiday greetings. See also day mode and night
mode.
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HOST SUBSCRIBER
A subscriber who sponsors a guest on the

voice messaging system. Some subscribers
may want to give vendors or important customers special privileges within your
organization by hosting them as guests.
IK
INSTALLER
The individual who installs the voice messaging system. Typically, the installer sets
up many options for the system, including
ports and phone system integration.
INTERNAL CALLER
An individual who can be identified by the

voice messaging system by using an ID.
Subscribers and guests who call from within
the voice messaging system, or who enter
their personal IDs when calling from outside the system, are internal callers.
L
LOCAL CONNECT
A mode in which you can record prompts or

greetings using an internal phone extension. You establish the local connection on
the system console, then use a nearby
extension to complete your recordings.
LOCAL SITE
Part of the optional Multisite Messaging

package. The onsite voice messaging system
in a network is called the local site. It defines
all other offices linked to it in the system as
remote sites. The terms local site and
remote site are relative, depending on
which voice messaging system you use as a
point of reference. See also Multisite Messaging and remote site.
M
MAILBOX
INTERNAL ID
A system ID that callers are unable to dial

directly. Internal IDs include a prefix, such
as $ (dollar sign), which cannot be dialed on
a phone.
The location where the voice messaging

system stores messages from callers. For
example, the voice messaging system keeps
messages for a subscriber in that subscribers mailbox.
INTERVIEW BOX
MANUAL FAX
A type of transaction box that can contain

up to 20 recorded questions. For example, a
business could use interview boxes to take
sales orders or perform market research.
The interview box records responses to each
of the interview questions. See also transaction box.
A fax that requires monitoring by the

sender. When the voice messaging system
answers, the sender enters the number for
the fax extension. Senders can leave a message for the fax recipient before connecting
to the fax machine. See also automatic fax.
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MEMORY SCREENING
MESSAGE WAITING INDICATOR

to hear information about the caller. If the
subscriber does not take the call, this information is retained as a message, or part of a
message. See also call confirm.
A feature on a phone, such as an indication

light, a distinctive dial tone, or an LCD display, that alerts subscribers when they have
messages waiting.
MULTISITE MESSAGING
MENU CONVERSATION
The default conversation, where subscribers hear a menu of options and enter the
number associated with the option to perform a particular task. An alternative to the
Yes-and-No conversation, in which subscribers select menu options by entering 1
for Yes and 2 for No.
An optional package, also known as

ActiveNet, that links each offices voice messaging system and lets the linked offices
send and receive voice messages. This package enables an organization to reduce the
costs of exchanging long distance voice
messages with regional offices, vendors, or
customers. This package uses the AMIS or
PLUSNET-1 protocols.
MESSAGE GROUP
A list of subscribers and/or guests to whom

a subscriber can send the same message at
once. Any subscriber can be a member of
any message group. Guests can only be
members of private groups owned by their
host subscriber. See also open message
group and private message group.
N
NEW MESSAGE
A message that has not yet been heard by

the recipient. See also archived message and
old message.
MESSAGE NOTIFICATION
NIGHT GREETING
Allows the voice messaging system to call

subscribers at any phone number they
specify when they have new messages. The
system can also deliver message notification by activating pagers and message
waiting indicators.
Plays during all days and times except those

specified in day mode. See also alternate
greeting and day greeting.
MESSAGE STACK
The collection of new, unheard messages

listed by source in a subscribers mailbox.
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NIGHT MODE
The voice messaging systems operation

mode outside of normal business hours. All
days and hours not assigned to day mode
are assigned to night mode. See also holiday
schedule and schedule.
NUMBERED GROUP
OPEN MESSAGE GROUP
Message groups that are identified by a

group number instead of a name.
A message group to which all authorized

subscribers can send messages. Guests cannot be members of an open group.
NUMBERED GROUPS ID
A system ID number that identifies a numbered message group.

NUMERIC DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
Lets callers identify and connect to a subscribers extension ID by pressing numbers

to move through a directory of subscribers.
See also alphabetic directory assistance;
directory assistance; directory group; and
directory menu.
O
OLD MESSAGE
A message that has been heard, but not

deleted or archived. You decide how long
old messages are saved. See also archived
message and new message.
ONE-KEY DIALING
Lets callers press one key during a greeting

to connect to system IDs. This feature lets
you offer callers a menu of choices during a
greeting. You can set up one-key dialing for
subscribers, transaction boxes, and for the
opening greeting.
OPENING GREETING
The greeting that callers hear when they

enter the main phone number for your
organization.
OPERATOR BOX
A transaction box used exclusively for handling calls that go to your operator.
OVER-THE-PHONE ENROLLMENT
You can configure the system to play a special enrollment conversation for new
subscribers that lets them enroll themselves
in the voice messaging system the first time
they call the system. See also console enrollment and enrollment conversation.
OWNER
A subscriber or system manager who has

control over a transaction box, interview
box, voice detect box, or message group. If
the owner is deleted, boxes and private
message groups for the owner are also
deleted. The system reassigns the owners
open message groups to SYSTEM.
P-Q
ONE-WAY MESSAGE
A message left by an unknown caller. The

recipient must enter the extension of the
caller in order to reply. See also two-way
message and unknown caller.
PERSONAL ID
A unique system ID that identifies a subscriber or guest to the system.
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PLUSNET-1
PUBLIC FAX BOX
An analog protocol used to facilitate communication between voice messaging

systems at different sites. PLUSNET-1 provides advanced messaging features,
including urgent and private messages,
unlimited number of messages per call,
unlimited message length, and unlimited
number of recipients per message. See also
audio messaging interchange specification
(AMIS).
A specialized mailbox that provides fax

detect, routing, and notification for incoming faxes.
PUBLIC INTERVIEW BOX
An interview box that handles callers who

have not reached an operator or have not
chosen any system ID. Other callers can also
be routed to this box. Messages in this box
are public messages. See also interview box
and public messages.
PORT
Consists of the standard modular phone

jacks on the voice messaging system that
the voice messaging system uses to connect
to and communicate with the phone
system.
PUBLIC MESSAGES
PREVIOUS REPORT
PULSE TONE
Used to display, copy, or print reports created earlier. This feature is useful when you
display a report on screen and later decide
to print it. You can also use Previous Report
to view or print any text file without leaving
the voice messaging system.
The tone generated by rotary phones. Pulse

tones are detected and recognized only
when a system has dial pulse detection
enabled. See also dial pulse detection.
Messages collected in the public interview

box or the operator box. Public messages
are distributed only to subscribers with
public message access.
PRIVATE MESSAGE GROUP
Allows only the groups owner to send a

message to the group. Group owners cannot
be members of their own private groups. See
also guest, message group, and owner.
RECEIPT
PROMPT
The audio recording of the subscribers

name that the voice messaging system plays
in prompts to identify the source or destination of a message or call. This is also
referred to as the voice name.
A recording that is played at specific places

in the system conversation. Most system
prompts are stored in voice fields on the
Voice Prompt Editor screen.
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A record of a message one subscriber has

left for another.
RECORDED NAME
RELEASE
SINGLE-EXTENSION ACCESS
One of the three types of call transfer. In

release transfer, the voice messaging system
completes the transfer without checking
whether the call is answered or whether
there is a busy signal. See also await answer
and wait for ringback.
A single extension number used to leave

either fax mail or voice mail for a subscriber.
Part of the optional ActiveFax package.
REMOTE SITE
Part of the optional Multisite Messaging

package. All offices linked in the network to
a local site are considered remote sites. The
terms local site and remote site are relative,
depending on which voice messaging system you use as a point of reference. See also
local site and Multisite Messaging.
SPELLED-NAME GROUP
Message groups that are identified by a

name instead of a number. To reach a
named group, subscribers select the group
by spelling its name on the phone.
SUBSCRIBER
Anyone who is enrolled in the voice messaging system. The system identifies a caller
as a subscriber when the subscriber enters a
personal ID. See also guest and system
manager.
REPLY TIME
The maximum time allowed to record an

answer to an interview box question.
SUBSCRIBERS PERSONAL GREETING
The greeting callers hear when they reach a

subscribers voice mailbox. See also alternate greeting.
SWITCH
SCHEDULE
The method for determining how calls are

handled at different times and/or on different days. Up to three different schedules
can be defined. See also day mode; holiday
schedule; and night mode.
SECURITY CODE
A series of alphanumeric characters that

subscribers set as a security code so that no
one else can access their voice mailboxes.
Another name for the phone system.

SYSTEM GREETINGS
See opening greeting.

SYSTEM ID
A unique identifier associated with each

subscriber, guest, interview box, transaction
box, voice detect box, fax box, directory
group, and directory menu. System IDs can
include numbers, letters, or certain
symbols.
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SYSTEM KEY
TRANSFER-GREETING-ACTION
A key programmed with the number of

ports and optional packages purchased for
a system. The key is a piece of hardware that
attaches to the parallel port. The voice messaging software checks the system key
before activating system options. Each system key has a unique serial number.
The three-part sequence for handling every

call routed to a voice mailbox, transaction
box, or other type of box. Transfer determines whether and how to connect a call to
the destination phone. If the transfer does
not occur or the call is not answered, the
greeting plays a recording and offers new
options to the caller. After the greeting, the
system takes the specified action, for example, takes a message or says good-bye.
SYSTEM MANAGER
The individual in an organization who sets

up and maintains the voice messaging system. See also installer and subscriber.
TWO-WAY MESSAGE
The collection of prerecorded prompts,

questions, choices, and menus that the system plays to the system manager to enable
the system manager to maintain the voice
messaging system.
Allows a recipient to immediately reply to a

message, when prompted to do so, by simply staying on the line. This function is
available only when both the sender and the
recipient of a message are enrolled on the
voice messaging system. See also one-way
message.
TOUCHTONES
UNKNOWN CALLER
The sounds made by pressing keys on

touchtone phones. See also DTMF.
A subscriber or other caller who has not

entered a system ID while calling from outside the organization, or a subscriber who
has not entered a system ID while calling
from inside the organization on a phone
system that does not support identified
subscriber messaging.
SYSTEM MANAGER CONVERSATION
TRANSACTION BOX
A type of box used to set up call routing, create menus, or provide audiotext
announcements. See also interview box;
operator box; public interview box; and
voice detect box.
TRANSFER
A physical connection of a call to a particular phone. See call transfer.
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URGENT MESSAGE
A message the caller has marked urgent.

Urgent messages are listed first in a recipients message stack.
USAGE REPORTS
VOICE NAME
Reports that show how much the voice messaging system is being used hour by hour.
Usage reports can be created for an individual subscriber, guest, extension ID, system
ID, or the entire voice messaging system.
The recorded name of a subscriber. The system plays the voice name in prompts that
identify the source or destination of a message or call. See also recorded name.
VOICEMATE
V
VIRTUAL SUBSCRIBER
Serves as the owner of a collection of transaction boxes and/or message groups that
are not connected to a particular individual
in an organization. Using virtual subscribers helps ensure that important boxes and
groups are not inadvertently deleted.
VOICE DETECTION

system to listen for spoken sounds, rather
than touchtones or pulse tones.
VOICE DETECT BOX
A type of transaction box that uses voice

detection to allow callers to make choices or
respond to prompts by saying Yes or by
remaining silent for No.
A voice messaging system with all of the

necessary hardware and software preinstalled.
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WAIT FOR RINGBACK
One of three types of call transfer, in which

the voice messaging system waits for an
extension to ring a certain number of times
before transferring the call. See also await
answer and release.
YES-AND-NO CONVERSATION
An alternate system conversation, in which

subscribers select menu options by entering
1 for Yes and 2 for No. See also menu
conversation.
VOICE DETECT CALL HOLDING
Allows callers to choose to hold by saying

Yes rather than by pressing keys.
VOICE FIELD
Where a user records greetings, prompts,

recorded names, or interview questions.
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Index
INDEX
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Index
Special characters
$_FAXBOX 17
$_internal ID 16
$PM 17
$VOICE 17
A
about 100, 312
list of codes 101103, 313315
access codes
list of codes 101103, 313315
multisite messaging 216
setting defaults 100
setting for individual subscribers 312
ACT! integration, troubleshooting use with
TeLANophy 534
ActiveFax
assigning fax boxes 125, 305
setup overview 172
troubleshooting 544549
ActiveNet. See Multisite Messaging
advertisements
business announcement 272
ownership of 273
remote recording of 273
advertisers
as guests 272
as subscribers 273
training for 273
All Subscribers group
about 328
removing subscribers from 328
sending messages to 328
alphabetic directory assistance
See also numeric directory assistance
and opening greeting 62
setup overview 157
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alternate directory update

exporting Multisite Messaging directory
data 208
importing Multisite Messaging directory
data 212
using 207
AMIS protocol
about 193
and Multisite Messaging features 194
and special delivery options 217
# of trunks answered field 37
about 32, 34
All ports busy action field 37
Alternate trunk #s field 37
Calls/day fields 36
completing site information fields 35
Contact field 36
Day calls answered field 36
Fax port station numbers field 37
Night calls field 37
Phone # field 36
setup steps 32
Site name field 36
Total trunks/stations fields 36
Trunk pilot # field 37
Voice port station numbers field 37
Voice port stations pilot # field 37
about 32
Day/night schedule field 39
Language field 41
Opening line ID field 41
Port status field 39
Rings to answer field 39
setup steps 32
Special port options field 43
System language field 41

about 48
action fields 55
greeting fields 53
Max time to wait for voice field 471
Name field 51
One-key delay field 57
One-key dialing field 57
Opening line ID field 61
Restart IDs field 59
System ID field 51
Voice name field 53
about 66
action fields 75
Active greeting field 73
After msg field 75
Alternate system IDs for special operators on
each port field 77
Call transfer field 71
Day? transfer field 71
Edits OK? field 75
Gather ID intro field 72
greetings fields 73
Holding? field 72
Intro field 71
Language field 69
Max-msg field 75
Night? transfer field 71
Rings field 71
Send msg urgent field 75
System ID field 69
Transfer options field 72
Voice name field 69
about 80
Alternate mode on? field 87
Current mode field 85
Date off field 91
Date on field 91
Daylight savings? field 91

Hours field 91
Ignore holidays? field 90
On now? field 91
Schedule #4 field 86
schedule fields 85
Time now field 82
Todays date field 82
about 80, 88
greeting fields 89
holiday fields 89
#1 field 121
about 94
Access Code Options screen 100
Action field 109
Activate lamps? field 119
Archive msgs field 99
Call transfer type field 107
Expanded E-Mail Options screen 133
Expanded Fax Options screen 127
Expanded Notification Options screen 122
expanded screens 94
Expanded Transfer Options screen 110, 116
Fax ID field 126
Hold msgs field 99
Holding? field 109
Lamp # field 119
Language field 97
Live Record Options screen 134
Personal ID field 96
Phone number field 107
Rings field 107
schedule fields 121
Transfer? field 107
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593

about 138
Absolute date/time stamp? field 149
Amount to skip/forward on rewind/
fastforward 141
Beep on record? field 143
Blank PC screen? field 150
Disk full warning at field 144
Error notices to field 153
Keypad field 145
Max person-person recording field 140
Max screening recording field 140
OS surrender fields 152
record pauses fields 142
Redirect with single introduction? field 147
Screen type field 150
Startup field 159, 165, 175
about 138
Alt action field 166, 170
Announce field 166
Auto xfers? field 158
Bad ID Goto field 162
Call report aging field 156
Fax ID field 165
Holding? field 166
ID for alpha directory field 158
ID for numeric access to groups and remote
sites field 158
Max ID attempts field 162
Maximum message life field 155
Public archive msgs field 155
Public hold msgs field 155
Rings field 166
Three character directory mode field 161
594
Transfer? field 165, 170

Voice name field 165
automatic directory assistance. See alphabetic
B
Banner screen
about 6
date and time 19
function keys 19
insert indicator 19
mode indicator 19
Port selector 19
Port status fields 19
recording time 19
barge-in code 474
baud rate
troubleshooting for PMS integration
troubleshooting for remote
maintenance 556
BIOS, LBA setting for upgrades 525
Box ID 14
business announcements 272
541
C
call holding
for default subscriber 104
for individual subscriber 288
limiting callers time 460
limiting number of ports on hold 459
setting up 284
setup for voice detect boxes 376
call routing
for subscribers 291
from transaction boxes 361
setting up for default subscriber 114
using interview boxes 368
call screening
for subscribers 290
specifying maximum time 140
call transfer
about 104
and actions after 105, 285
and call holding 104, 284
and call screening 104, 284
customizing for subscribers 284
for operator 70
for transaction boxes 352
setting up for default subscriber 104, 106
transfer types 104, 107, 284
callers, preparing frequent callers 569
clock settings 515
COM port, test for setting 542
constant message count 462
cover sheet, fax-on-demand 402
cut-through paging
attended paging 476
release paging 476
setup 476480
unattended paging 476
D
D/160 voice board, troubleshooting 518
data, entering and changing 26
daylight saving time, adjusting system schedule
for 91
default subscriber
about 94
compared to individual subscriber 276
diagnostic traces tool 517
dial tone detection
about 444
DID. See direct-inward-dialing
Digi-trap setting for ports 43, 45
direct-inward-dialing (DID)
setting up ports 44
setting up system 44
about 157
alphabetic 157158
directory IDs 15
numeric 62, 157, 337
setting up system IDs for 157159
Directory Group screen 338
directory groups
about 326, 338
adding menus to 342
adding submenus to 342
adding subscribers to 343
creating 342
deleting 344
differences from message groups 338
setting up numeric directory assistance
for 338
directory information, setting up for Multisite
Messaging 204
directory menus
about 340
adding submenus to 342
assigning groups to 343
creating 342
deleting 344
system ID 340
DTMF, troubleshooting 518, 520
E
easy message access 445
E-Mail Integration
training 564
troubleshooting 528, 530, 532
Emlogin utility 532
enrollment, enabling subscribers to selfenroll 132, 316
INDEX
595
error messages
network 512
setting up notification 153
about 318
E-mail name field 319
E-mail post office field 319
E-mail post office screen 133
about 127
Access field 132
After msg/hold field 131, 311
Announce even if no voice? field 129, 309
Ask for voice field 129, 309
Edits OK? field 129, 309
Fax intro field 311
Greeting field 309
Max-msg field 129, 309
No fax available field 131, 311
about 122
Fax delivery field 124, 304
Phones to notify for fax field 124, 304
schedule fields 123, 303
about 110
Action field 115, 295
After msg field 115, 295
Busy field 115, 295
Edits OK? field 115, 295
greetings fields 295
Max-msg field 115, 295
One-key delay field 117, 297
One-key dialing field 117, 297
Screening options field 113, 293
Screening? field 113, 293
Send msg urgent? field 115, 295
Transfer options field 113, 293
extension IDs 14
596
extensions, redirecting 449451

external caller group messaging 334
external calls, outdial access number 447
F
fax
action after failed delivery 180
assigning default fax boxes 125
assigning subscriber fax boxes 305
automatic fax delivery 127
changing default connect time settings 176
changing default fax dialout settings 176
changing fax transmit settings 178
customizing fax delivery options 306
error messages 544
fax-on-demand overview 390
one-key dialing 410
restricting dialing area for fax-ondemand 183
setting default fax delivery options 127
setting up actions for unavailable fax
ports 130
setting up automatic fax delivery 308
setting up default fax box 126
setting up fax delivery 128
setting up fax machine hunt group 167
setting up fax ports 174
setting up public fax box 163
setting up voice annotations 128, 308
setting up voice announcement 128, 308
subscriber notification settings 302
using special-purpose fax boxes 363367
vertical spacing 393
Fax Box screen
about 363
After msg/hold field 367
Announce even if no voice? field 365
Ask for Voice? field 365
Edits OK? field 365

Greeting field 365
Max-msg field 365
No fax available field 367
fax catalog, creating 400
fax IDs
about 14
defaults 125
fax library
adding documents 396
changing menu 399
creating menus 412
deleting documents 397
document numbers 393
routing callers to 406
Fax Library Express, starting on
workstations 563
Fax Library screen
Cover sheet logo field 403
Description field 398
Doc # field 403
Fax library ID screen 407
Selection field 398
Trim top of documents field 398
Voice field 396
fax mail
about 125, 305
adding cover sheet logo 186
adding special-purpose fax box 363
assigning default fax boxes 125
changing fax transmit settings 178
custom cover sheet 185
custom cover sheet logo 185
delivery options 127, 306
incoming faxes 167
planning for 167
recording greetings for 306
removing cover sheet logo 186
restoring cover sheet 187
setup overview 172
system actions for unavailable

ports 127, 306
Fax Setup screen
about 172
Call non-local exchanges? field 184
Call outside home area code? field 184
Fax connect wait-time field 177
Fax outdial access field 177
Fax port status field 175
Home area code field 184
Local exchanges field 184
Prefix for non-local exchanges field 184
Prefix for other area codes field 184
Use North American SmartDialing? field 184
fax-on-demand
about 390
adding documents 392397
adding fax library documents 396
building fax library menus with transaction
boxes 412
changing fax library menu 399
configuring North American
SmartDialing 183
creating a custom cover sheet 402
creating menus 412
fax catalog 400
fax library menu 412
faxing documents from console 404
one-key dialing 410, 413
routing callers to library 406
setting up automatic fax transmittal 408
setup overview 172
system ID 413
fields, entering data 26
first directory update for Multisite
Messaging 204
future delivery messages, use with multisite
messaging 216
INDEX
597
G
general tone detection
activating 440, 521
and phantom calls 379
troubleshooting 518
greetings
about 418
for subscribers 290
for transaction boxes 355
hotel guest 258
setting up by console 356
setting up by phone 355
setting up for operator box 73
groups
about 326
All Subscribers group 328
assigning dispatch distribution 333
deleting directory groups 344
deleting directory menus 344
directory groups 326, 338
directory menus 340
local access 336
message groups 326
Multisite Messaging for 218
renaming message groups 332
Groups screen
about 326
Directory Group screen 338
Dispatch field 333
Guest screen
Name field 323
Send msg urgent? field 323
598
guests
about 8, 322
adding for subscribers 322
deleting 322
setting message notification 322
H
hard disk
error when formatting 525
failure, troubleshooting 524
setting the BIOS 525
Help, online Help for TeLANophy
workstations 563
holding
for operators extension 74
holidays
and schedule #4 88
holiday mode 80
setting 88
setting up schedule to ignore holidays 88, 90
Hospitality
accessing guest messages 225
changing spelling of guest names in
directory 227
changing wake-up greeting 233
converting guests to subscribers 264
deleting guest messages 255
deleting guests 255
enabling guest passwords 238
enrolling guests 266
handling unanswered wake-up calls 233
hotel guests report 506
individual guest information 249
informational messages 242
managing wake-up calls 262
manually adding hotel rooms to system 254
overlapping room extension numbers 228
pending wake-up calls report 504
personal options for guests 247

reports for 503
resetting guest message box 224
restoring guest mailbox and settings 246
retrieving guest messages 241
setting check-in messages 235
setting up auto-login 240
setting up hotel guest directory 226227
setting up multilingual guest conversation
package 236
setting up wake-up calls 231
setup overview 222
storing guest messages after checkout 244
tall hotel 228
troubleshooting 535543
using hotel guest IDs 243
wake-up call failures report 504
wake-up call log report 504
about 222
After message retrieval Goto ID field 242
Allow edits in msg box? field 248
Allow language choice? field 237
Allow passwords? field 239
Allow personal greetings? field 248
Archive days field 245
Auto xfer? field 227
Automatic password assignment? field 239
Callers hear guest language? field 237
Check-in msg enabled? field 235
Check-in msg greeting field 235
Check-in msg ID field 235
Default guest ID 245
First time enrollment? field 235, 248
Give guest option to set spelled name for
directory? field 227
ID for guest directory field 227
Password length field 239
Post checkout ID field 225
Reset msg box ID field 224
Tall hotel ID entry delay field 229

Tall hotel? field 229
Unanswered wake-up notify ID field 234
wake-up call schedule fields 232
Wake-up call? field 232
Wake-up greeting ID field 234
Wake-up greeting recording time field 234
hotel guest directory
auto transfer of external callers 226
setting up 226
spelled guest names 227
troubleshooting 537
hotel guests
accessing messages for 225
adding to hotel directory 266
advertisers enrolled as 272
archiving messages for 244, 252
call transfer settings 256
changing greeting for 258
converting to subscribers 264
deleting 255
deleting messages 255
deleting passwords 267
direct call transfer 271
direct operator access 270
enabling personal greeting for 247
enrolling 266
enrollment conversation 247
forgotten password 567
Help setup 270
menu routing 270
message notification 260
password management 238
personal ID for 243
report 567
resetting password 567
restoring mailbox and settings for 246
retrieving messages for 241
setting call transfer for 256
setting language for 250
INDEX
599
setting personal ID for 250

setting personal options for 247
setting up auto-login for 240
specifying actions after greeting for 258
specifying information for individual 249
storing messages after checkout 244
Hotel Guests screen
about 249
Action field 259
Allow password? field 267
Allow personal greeting? field 267
Daily? field 263
Edits OK? field 259
Extension # ID field 253
First time enrollment? field 267
Greeting field 259
Hold msgs field 253
Include in guest directory? field 267
Lamp # field 261
Language field 251
Max-msg field 259
message delivery schedule fields 261
Name field 251
New msgs field 253
On now? field 261
Rings field 257
Total field 253
Transfer? field 257
Wake-up call field 263
hotel information service

evaluating 274
setup 268
hotel staff, training 566
hunt groups, and faxes 167
IJ
identified subscriber messaging, setting up
internal IDs 16
Interview Box screen
After field 371
Question field 371
Reply field 371
Send msg urgent? field 371
Send to group field 371
interview boxes
about 368
adding to system 370
planning 369
public interview box 372
removing from system 370
using to route information 368
IRQ settings
troubleshooting, hardware 525
troubleshooting, PMS integration 542
K
key presses, troubleshooting 520
keypad map 145
keys
for moving between screens 24
for moving within screens 25
for system manager conversation
L
language select box
routing callers with 58
setting restart ID 58
600
2627
442
Language Select Box screen

Action field 387
Greeting field 386
Introduction field 386
Language field 386
Name field 386
No TT field 387
Repeat greeting field 387
System ID field 386
Wait for TT field 387
language select boxes
about 382
adding to system 384387
deleting 386
setting restart ID 384
setup overview 385
languages
determining which ones are installed 40
language select boxes 40
multiple opening greetings 60
selecting for a port 40
setting the default 40, 97
two-letter codes 41
large print version, User Guide 559
last call status, for Multisite Messaging 551
LBA BIOS setting 525
LinkWiz, troubleshooting 526
live record
about 134
configuring subscriber settings 134
customizing subscriber settings 320
for individual subscribers 320
phone system setup 474475
setting maximum message length 134
Live record extensions for ViewMail
field 135, 321
Live record maximum record time

field 135, 321
Live record? field 135, 321
local access groups
about 336
changing type 336
creating 336
local connection
about 22
establishing 22
terminating 23
local site
about 193
phone number setup for Multisite
Messaging 196
setting up for Multisite Messaging 196
M
maintenance
system information 26
voice messaging system 20
manual directory update, for Multisite
Messaging 206
message delivery
activating for default subscriber 120
activating for subscribers 300
turning off for Multisite Messaging 208
turning on for Multisite Messaging 214
message groups
about 326
changing owner 331
creating 329
deleting 329, 330
differences from directory groups 338
external callers 334
outside caller group messaging 334
owner 329
removing subscribers from 330
INDEX
601
renaming 332
system owner 329
types of 329
message notification
by pager 302
fax delivery 122, 302
for default subscriber 118, 122
for guests 322
for public messages 372
for subscribers 298
message delivery 118, 298
message indication 118, 298
message waiting indicators 298
changing 456
for subscribers 299
messages
activating default delivery 120
archived 98, 154, 283
archiving guest messages 244
changing date and time stamp 149
changing retrieval order 148
check-in, defined 235
delayed message troubleshooting 515
delayed notification troubleshooting 518
deleting archived 154
deleting for guests 322
deleting subscriber 280
delivery 118, 298
guest storage after checkout 244
informational, for hotel guests 242
managing disk space 140
message groups 326
message indication 118, 298
new (unheard) 98, 154
notification for hotel guests 260
old (heard) 98, 154
playback settings 141
public 154, 372
602
redirecting 146147
retention cycle 154
retrieving guest messages 241
sending to All Subscribers group 328
setting archive time 98, 154, 283
setting maximum recording time 140
setting pause durations 142
setting storage time 98, 154, 283
specifying beep before recording 143
multilingual systems
about 40
assigning languages to ports 40
default language 40
determining installed languages 40
language select boxes 40
multilingual guest conversation package 236
multiple opening greeting boxes 40
setting default language 97
setting subscriber language 282
two-letter language codes 41
using language select boxes with 382
Multisite Messaging
about 190
alternate directory update 204, 207
AMIS protocol 193
and ActiveNet 190
and message groups 218
copying directory information to tape or
disks 211
directory information setup 204
disk space 205
exporting directory information 208, 209
features 190
first directory update methods 204
importing directory information 212, 213
installation overview 190
last call status messages 551
local access groups 336
local site phone number setup 196
local site, about 193

manual directory update 204, 206
message delivery, turning off to remote
sites 208
message delivery, turning on for remote
sites 214
network testing 215
planning worksheet 195
PLUSNET-1 protocol 193
remote site default setup 198
remote site message delivery setup 200
remote site phone number setup 200
remote site protocol setup 200
remote site restrictions setup 200
remote site, about 193
reports 491
setup overview 190, 192
setup steps 190
subsequent directory updates 205
testing the network 215
training 219
transmitting directory information 210
music on hold 424
N
about 190
Accept incoming network calls? field 197
Allow outgoing network calls? field 197
Area code field 197
Local site country code field 197
Maximum failed calls allowed field 199
Private ID field 197
Restrictions field 199
NIC, troubleshooting for TeLANophy 528
North American SmartDialing feature 183
notification, error message 153

null modem adapter, troubleshooting for PMS
integration 542
numeric directory assistance
See also alphabetic directory assistance
about 337
and opening greeting 62
setup overview 337
wildcard characters 337
O
one-key dialing
about 116
for default subscribers 116
for subscribers 296
routing from transaction boxes with 361
routing opening greeting with 56
using to route to fax library 406
using with fax-on-demand 410
opening greeting
about 48
adding additional 48
alternate 48, 52
changing 52
changing default system setup 50
changing opening box name 51
changing opening box system ID 51
customizing 52
day mode 48
default 48, 50
multiple languages 60
night mode 48
routing to a language select box 58
routing with one-key dialing 56
setting actions for 54
setting up directory assistance 62
setting up multiple 60
system ID 48
INDEX
603
operator box
about 66
archiving messages in 74
assigning to a port 76
default settings 66
deleting messages in 74
handling calls 76
setting language settings 68
setting operator system ID 68
setting up actions for 74
setting up call transfer for 70
setting up greetings for 73
setting voice settings 68
setup overview 66
system IDs 14
operators
changing call transfer and holding 70
multiple operators 76
training 565
OS/2, shutting down and restarting 29
outdial access number 447
outside caller group messaging 334
P
password
reset for hotel guests 567
troubleshooting for e-mail 532
Personal Directory
about 276
compared to default subscriber 94, 276
deleting information from 280
personal IDs
about 14
specifying default 96
vs. security code 15
phantom calls
limiting with voice detect boxes 379
troubleshooting 521
604
phone integration
activating general tone detection 440, 521
identified subscriber messaging 442443
setting up trunk mapping 441
phone menu, options 27
phone system
dialing characters 439
selecting 438
setting up constant message count 462
phrases, in system conversation 419
PIM Integration, online Help 563
PLUSNET-1 protocol
about 193
and Multisite Messaging features 194
and special delivery options 217
PMS (property management system)
accessing guest messages 225
adding hotel guest names 254
and Hospitality package 222
changing hotel guest names 250
changing language choices 250
resetting hotel guest message box 224
restoring mailboxes 246
spelled guest name support 227
training hotel staff 566
port status, setting 39
ports
about 38
actions for unavailable fax ports 127, 310
assigning an operator box to 76
assigning schedules to 84
busy ports report 490
Digi-trap setting 43
limiting number on hold 459
selecting a language for 40
setting call routing and handling 42
setting for forwarded calls 42
setting for T1 integration 42
setting the number of rings to answer

calls 38
setting up 38
setting up actions 38
setting up fax ports 174
setting up for a DID unit 44
setting up schedules 38
setting up special options 43
traffic reduction with TeLANophy 42 , 528
using a language select box 40
print-to-fax, starting on a workstation 563
private messages, using with multisite
messaging 216
prompts
about 416, 419
deleting 431
finding specific 416
in system conversation 419
locating 422
on-hold prompts 424426
prompt sets, table of 420, 421
recovering 433
voice fields 422
property management system integration (PMS)
See PMS
public fax box
about 163
routing to multiple fax machines 167170
setup 164
system IDs 14
public interview box
about 372
and operator box 74
deleting messages 372
message notification 372
system ID 372
public messages
deleting 372
saving and storing 154
Q
QP, in prompt names 422
quick keys
moving between screens 24
moving within screens 25
QuickPlay 422
R
receptionists, training 565
recording, music on hold 424
recordings
appending 429
backing up 432
copying 429
deleting 431
listening to 427
making 428
recovering 433
remote maintenance
external modem settings 524
troubleshooting 554, 555
about 190, 200
Area code field 201
Maximum failed calls allowed field 203
Outgoing and Incoming call sections
field 203
Phone network type field 201
Protocol field 201
Remote site name field 201
Restrictions field 203
Total failed calls field 203
remote site
about 193
adding new sites for Multisite Messaging 200
default setup for Multisite Messaging 198
INDEX
605
setting up message delivery for Multisite

Messaging 200
setting up protocol for Multisite
Messaging 200
setting up restrictions for Multisite
Messaging 200
setup for Multisite Messaging 198
reports
about 484
busy ports report 490
call log report 496
call report data 156
directory reports 492
error log 500
extension report 492
for Hospitality 503
for Multisite Messaging 491
group reports 492
hotel guests report 506, 567
pending wake-up calls report 504
source data for 487
subscriber report 492
training hotel staff 566
usage report 488
viewing 486
wake-up call failures report 504
wake-up call log report 504
wake-up call report 503
restart ID
setting for language select boxes 384
setting up for a language 58
return receipt, use with multisite
messaging 216
S
schedules
setting system shutdown 151
setting up for ports 38
screen saver, initiating 150
606
screen type, displaying 150

screening
setting up for subscribers 290
screens
Access Code Options screen 100, 312
Application screen page 1 33
Banner screen 6
Expanded E-Mail Options screen 133, 318
Expanded Fax Options screen 127, 306
Expanded Notification Options
screen 122, 302
Expanded Transfer Options
screen 110, 116, 290, 296
Fax Box screen 363, 365, 367
Fax Library screen 390
Fax Setup screen 172
Groups screen 326
Guest screen 322
Hospitality Setup screen 222
Hotel Guests screen 249
Interview Box screen 368, 371
Language Select Box screen 382
Live Record Options screen 134, 321
moving between 24
moving within 25
Networking Setup screen 190
Public Interview Box screen 372
Remote Network Site screen 190
Subscriber screen 276
Switch Setup screen page 1 436

Transaction Box screen 346
Voice Detect Box screen 374
Voice Prompt Editor screen 416
security codes
deleting for subscriber 280
vs. personal IDs 15
shortcut keys
for system manager conversation 2627
SIOCHK utility 542
site information
about 32
completing Application screen page 1 35
entering 34
sound devices 529
special delivery options
restricting for multisite messaging 216
using with multisite messaging 216
Subscriber screen
about 276
Access Code Options screen 312
Access field 317
Action field 289
delivery schedule fields 301
Expanded E-Mail Options screen 318
Expanded Fax Options screen 306
Expanded Notification Options screen 302
Expanded Transfer Options screen 290
Extension ID field 279
Fax ID field 305
Hold msgs field 283
Holding? field 289
Lamp # field 299
Lamp on now? field 299

Language field 282
Live Record Options screen 321
Name field 279
Rings field 287
Transfer? field 287
subscribers
about 8
activating default message delivery 120
activating message delivery 300
adding guests 322
adding multiple subscribers 278
adding one subscriber 278
adding personal fax box for 305
adding to directory groups 343
adding to message groups 330
advertisers enrolled as 273
All Subscribers group 328
assigning a language 282
assigning as system manager 281
changing greetings 294
converting to hotel guests 264
customizing access options 312
customizing fax options 306
default access options 100
default call transfer 104
default fax boxes 125
default one-key dialing 116
default vs. individual settings 94
deleting 8, 280
e-mail options 318
enabling to self-enroll 132
enrolling 132, 316
individual 276
removing from directory groups 344
removing from message groups 330
sending error messages to 153
setting actions for after greetings 294
INDEX
607
setting default fax delivery 127

setting message storage 283
setting one-key dialing 296
setting up call screening 290, 292
setting up call transfer 284, 286
setting up default actions 114
setting up default call holding 108
setting up default call routing 110
setting up default call screening 110, 112
setting up default call transfer 106
setting up default e-mail options 133
setting up default fax box 126
setting up default greeting 110, 114
setting up default message storage 98
setting up default notification 118, 122
setting up greetings 290
setting up notification 298
specifying default personal ID 96
specifying default settings 94
training 529, 559
about 436
Answer on ring low? field 453
Busy recall field 452
Connect field 452
integration options 444446
Integrations options field 448
Off-hook delay field 453
Outdial access field 448
Pooled delay field 453
Release on LCR? field 453
Ring-off time field 453
Ring-on time field 453
Switch field 438
Transfer initiate field 452
Transfer recall field 452
TT Msg field 453
608
TT prompt field 453

TT Record field 453
about 454
Daily lamp reset field 458
Dialout DTMF duration field 458
Dialout pause fields 458
Dialtone delay field 458
DTMF interdigit delay field 458
Extra hold time between tries field 461
Hookflash (%) field 458
Hookflash (&) field 458
Interval field 458
LCD refresh interval field 463
Max lines holding for ext field 459
Max lines holding total field 459
Message waiting lamp on/off field 458
Number tries between TT checks field 461
Reset all lamps? field 458
Retries field 458
about 464
Max time to wait for voice field 471
testing for call progress 466
about 472
Barge-in code field 475
Cut-through page ID field 478
Cut-through page initiate field 478
Cut-through page recall field 478
Cut-through page type field 478
Cut-through paging enabled? field 478
Live record beep interval field 475
Use only 1 port? field 478
system conversation
about 9, 416
copying recordings 429
greetings 418
listening to recordings 427
making recordings 428

phrases 419
planning 418, 569
prompt sets 416
prompts 416, 419
system date, setting 82
system IDs
about 12
alphabetic IDs 12
automatic directory ID 15
box ID 14
changing opening box system ID 51
default 16, 17
determining unique 12, 13
directory ID 15
extension ID 14
fax ID 14
for directory menus 340
for guests 243
hidden 16
how system listens for 14
numbered groups ID 15
personal ID 14
planning 14
public interview box ID 372
setting for automatic directory
assistance 158
specifying default personal ID 96
system operator 68
types 14
system key, testing 512
system managers
about 1820
backing up data 18
creating 281
remote maintenance 18
removing 281
responsibilities 18
system manager conversation 26
training 568
system operator ID, default 68

system options, confirming installed 18
system schedules
about 80, 82
adjusting for daylight saving time 91
alternate mode 87
assigning to a port 84
assigning to transaction box 84
day mode 80
default 83
holiday mode 80
night mode 80
setting multiple 84
setting one schedule 83
setting up 24-hour schedule 86
setting up holidays 88
setting up schedule #4 86
setting up to handle unforseen events 87
setting up to ignore holidays 90
system screens. See screens
system settings
changing by console 26
changing by phone 26
system time, setting 82
system users
See also subscribers
guests 8, 322
subscribers 8
unidentified callers 8, 162
T
tall hotel
about 228
troubleshooting 538
tape backup, troubleshooting 526, 527
TeLANophy
and busy ports 528
information for subscribers 562
network error messages 512
INDEX
609
online Help for workstations 563

PIM Integration online Help, ViewCall
Plus 563
setting ports for 42
starting on workstations 562
training for subscribers 562
tests
busy signal 469
call progress 466
ring signal 468
touchtones
changing settings 456
how system listens for 14
troubleshooting 520
trace, diagnostic tool 517
training
about 558
checklist 571
e-mail integration 564
hotel staff 566
Multisite Messaging 219
operators 565
receptionists 565
subscribers 529, 559
system managers 568
about 346
action fields 358
After msg field 358
Day? field 353
Edits OK? field 358
greetings fields 356
Holding? field 354
Intro field 354
Language field 350
Max-msg field 358
Name field 350
610
Night? field 353

One-key dialing field 362
Rings field 353
Schedule # field 350
System ID field 350
Transfer options field 354
transaction boxes
about 10, 346
adding 348350
adding a range of 348, 351
and transfer-greeting-action structure 348
assigning schedules to 84
assigning trunks to 442
creating delete-proof 359
deleting 351
deleting messages from 348
fax boxes 167
how callers access 346
removing 348
setting up call transfer for 352
setting up greetings by console 356
setting up greetings by phone 355
setting up greetings for 355
sorting 360
types of 346
using one-key dialing to route callers 361
Transaction Directory
about 346
fax box screen 363
interview box 368
language select box 382
public interview box 372
sorting 360
special-purpose fax box 363
transaction box 346
voice detect box 374
transfer-greeting-action structure
about 11
and transaction boxes 348
troubleshooting
about 510
ActiveFax 544549
clock settings 515
delayed message notification 518
delayed messages 515
disk full errors 519
e-mail integration 528, 530, 532
Emlogin utility 532
error log 500
fax 533, 544, 546548
fax tone detection 546
general tone detection 521
GTD, tone detection 518
Hospitality 535543
hotel guest directory 537
identifying source of problem 510
installation 524, 525
LinkWiz 526
missing archived messages 514
missing OS/2 icons 514
Multisite Messaging 550, 551, 553
remote maintenance 554, 555
running GTDETECT 522
system display 527
system startup 523
tall hotel 538
tape backup 526, 527
TeLANophy 528, 532
testing call progress 466
touchtone sensitivity 520
using reports 484
wake-up calls 536, 537
trunk mapping, setup 441
U
undo a change 25
unidentified callers
about 8
limiting number of times to misdial 162
UPS (uninterruptible power supply) 20
Urgent messages, and multisite messaging 216
User Guide, large print version of 559
V
about 374
Name field 378
Schedule # field 378
System ID field 378
voice selection fields 378
voice detect boxes
about 374
and call holding 374
call holding, setup 376
deleting 378
setting up 377
setup overview 376
using to limit phantom calls 379380
voice messaging system
and phone system 438
backups 18
busy signal test 469
capturing call data 156
care and maintenance 20
changing message waiting indicators 456
changing touchtone settings 456
checking hotel guests out of the system 224
confirming installed options 18
constant message count 462
dialing characters 439
dialing external calls 447
disk full errors 519
INDEX
611
display problems 527

general tone detection 440
generating disk full warning messages 144
identified subscriber messaging 442443
limiting callers time on hold 460
limiting times callers can misdial 162
low storage warning 144
moving the computer console 20
redirecting extensions 449451
remote maintenance 18
restarting 28
ring signal test 468
saving disk space 140
scheduling system shutdown 151
screen saver 150
setting date and time 82
setting holidays 80
setting multiple schedules 84
setting schedules 80, 83
setting up 24-hour schedule 86
setting up call recording times 140
setting up call screening times 140
setting up for daylight savings time 91
setting up holidays 88
setup overview 30
shutting down 28
signing in 21
signing out 21
specifying longer spelled name options 160
starting 28
startup problems 523
subscriber error message delivery 153
system conversation 416
testing call progress 466
trunk mapping 441
using reports to monitor 484
612
verifying keypad map settings 145

voice detection settings 470
voice names 418
about 416
All ports Day/Nt field 423
Language field 423
Port n Day/Nt field 423
Prompt set description field 423
Prompt set field 423
QP field 423
shortcuts 423
Voice fields 423
voice prompts 419
WZ
wake-up calls 231
changing greeting for 233
handling unanswered 233
managing for specific guest 262
Windows Remote
external modem setting 524
troubleshooting 554
worksheets
Multisite Messaging planning 195
training checklist 571

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S y s tem Management G uide

2000 Active Voice Corporation.

ACTIVE VOICE SOFTWARE LICENSE AND HARDWARE SALE AGREEMENT

HEREIN, THE PACKAGE IS PROVIDED AS IS. ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS

Setting up greetings ............................................................................ 73

System schedules ......................................................................79

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

Redirecting messages ........................................................................ 146

Fax mail setup .........................................................................171

Message groups and Multisite Messaging ........................................ 218

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

Setting up message storage .............................................................. 283

Setting up an interview box ............................................................... 368

Fax library ...............................................................................389

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

Other phone system options ............................................................. 452

Troubleshooting the ActiveFax package ........................................... 544

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

About this guide................................................... 2

About this guide

The System Management Guide contains

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

New system managers

How to use this guide

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

This guide uses the following conventions:

These resources can help you learn more

Installation Guide: Contains instructions for installing the voice messaging

System Conversation Guide (available as

User Guide: Contains detailed instructions for subscribers about accessing

Field Help: The voice messaging system

Third-party documentation: You can

Type msgorder and press ENTER.

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

CHAPTER 2: SYSTEM OVERVIEW

By managing all types of communication in

The Banner screen

System date and time

Current mode (such as Day or Night)

Amount of disk space available for

Port setting and status information

Personal Directory screen

Transaction Directory screen

Fax Library screen

Remote Network Site screen

Voice Prompt Editor screen

Switch Setup screen

Hotel Guests screen

Each screen contains one or more pages of

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

You see the Banner screen before you sign

A list of available function keys and their

CHAPTER 2: SYSTEM OVERVIEW

This section describes basic concepts that

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT GUIDE

The system conversation

Check new messages

Review old messages