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Chapter 6: Notifying Users 145
Calling a Pager
The following example shows the Method field with the tokens that call a
pager to indicate the total number of messages and the number of new
messages. You may need more pauses, longer pauses, different signals for
the paging service, or a longer wait for the paging service to respond.
Type: NORMAL
Method: 9,%V,W(2,P)-%U*%M*%N#
Token Description
9
Number to be dialed for an outside line.
,
A two-second pause.
%V The contents of the Variable field in the notification record.
In this case, the Variable field contains the telephone num-
ber for the paging service.
, A two-second pause.
W(2,P)
A two-ring wait for the paging service to respond with a
confirmation tone.
- A half-second pause.
%U
The current mailbox (to let the user who is being paged
know the source of the page).
*
For this particular paging service, the asterisk tells the pag-
ing service to place a hyphen on the screen for the pager.
%M
The total number of messages for this mailbox.
*
Another hyphen.
%N The number of new messages for this mailbox.
#
Signal to the pager service that the information is complete.