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Chapter 3: Telephone System Configuration
Dial Plans
A Dial Plan is a collection of Outgoing Calling Rules. Dial Plans are
assigned to user extensions to specify the dialing permissions associated
with that extension. For example, you might have one Dial Plan for local
calling that only permits extensions associated with that Dial Plan to dial
local numbers, via the "local" outgoing calling rule. Another extension
may be permitted to dial long distance numbers, and so would have a Dial
Plan that includes both the "local" and "longdistance" outgoing calling
rules.
Click New at the top of the Calling Rules page and create a new dial plan
name. You can then add calling rules for that dial plan definition.
Figure 17: Create New Dial Plan
The default dial plan, the collection of your calling rules, is
Default_Dialplan. You can create more than one dial plan, especially if
you want to have different dial plans for different user extensions. Change
the DialPlanName, and then select the checkbox for each Outgoing
Calling Rule associated with this plan. You can also select which local
contexts, such as conferences, voicemenu, and queues should be part of
the dial plan.
Once you have completed the dial plan definition click Save to accept the
plan, or Cancel to abandon your changes. Click Apply Changes in the
