Allworx Verge IP Phone Series User Guide
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Version: T Revised: February 14, 2019
4.4 Shared Call Appearance
Handle a set of one or more appearances as a single appearance shared across multiple phones. All
phones in the Shared Appearance have access to calls and operations within the group of phones. For
example, an incoming call can ring on all phones using the appearance, one user answers the call and
places the call on hold, and then another user retrieves the call. The Shared Call Appearance is available
as a destination in any extension call route using My Allworx Manager (if permissions are enabled).
Phones that do not share the Shared Call Appearance can pick up ringing calls on a Shared Call
Appearance line. Once another call appearance picks up a call, the shared call appearance returns to
the idle state. If a phone outside the Shared Call Appearance group picks up a call, the call is no longer
a part of that Shared Call Appearance, i.e., a non-Shared Call Appearance phone picks up a call and
places it on hold, it is a “normal” hold and not one of the Shared Call Appearance hold types.
An active inbound call on a Shared Call Appearance line (or connecting an outbound call), renders the
line unavailable to all other phones using the Shared Call Appearance. When there is an active call on a
Shared Call Appearance, the Verge IP phone screen displays the Caller ID information of the party.
If a user parks a Shared Call Appearance call and the Park timeout setting for the system is set to ring
back to the phone that parked the call, the parked call rings back only to the phone that parked it. It
does not ring all phones in the Shared Call Appearance. The Shared Call Appearance programmable
button LED goes out and the call is no longer on the Shared Call Appearance.
Shared Call Appearances support three distinct types of hold behavior:
•
Public Hold
- any phone using the Shared Call Appearance can retrieve the call on hold. When
using this hold type, the system delivers Hold Reminders to all phones in the Shared Call
Appearance per the individual phone settings. If no one picks up the held call, all phones receive
a notification per the individual HOLD reminder settings. Press the
Public
soft key.
Queue Alarm Programmable Button LED
solid green
no alarms.
solid amber
yellow queue alarm.
solid red
red queue alarm.
Queue Alarm Soft Keys
Dismiss
clears the alarm from the call status area.
Silent
keeps the alarm on screen, but quiets the audible alarm.
Note:
Using the Call Forwarding option on a phone does not forward Shared Call Appearance calls.
Note:
The Allworx System does not support including a call on a shared hold in phone-hosted conferences.