MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
Feature Reference
555-650-110
Issue 1
June 1997
Features
Page 379
Messaging
machine. The Message LED goes on when the fax message threshold is
exceeded. The fax message threshold is the length of time (0–30 seconds) before
the system assumes that a fax has arrived.
Return Call is not operable for messages received from a fax machine and cannot
be used to make a call to the fax.
NOTE:
Fax machines only can send message-waiting indications. They cannot
receive message-waiting indications.
Calling Group Message-Waiting Receivers
2
7
An extension can be programmed as the message-waiting receiver for a calling
group. The user can receive personal messages or messages intended for the
calling group from any of the sources listed under “Receiving Messages.”
Posted Messages
2
7
Users can post a message to provide special information to co-workers with
display telephones—for example, to tell callers where the person is when not
answering the telephone or why the person does not want to be disturbed. When
a user with a display telephone calls a co-worker who has a message posted, the
posted message is shown on the caller’s display (even if the call is answered).
Users do not need a display telephone to post a message.
Twenty different posted messages can be programmed in the telephone system.
Ten messages are factory-set but can be changed. Ten additional messages can
be programmed and are factory-set as
CUSTOM MSG ##
. Beginning with Release
2.0, posted message 01,
DO NOT DISTURB
, cannot be changed.
Table 28.
Posted Messages
See
for more information about creating posted
messages.
In Release 2.0 and later systems, when Do Not Disturb is turned on, the system
automatically posts the Do Not Disturb message. This message appears on the
Home screen of an MLX display telephone user with Do Not Disturb turned on and
01 DO NOT DISTURB
06 IN CONFERENCE
11 CUSTOM MSG 11
16 CUSTOM MSG 16
02 OUT TO LUNCH
07 WITH A CLIENT
12 CUSTOM MSG 12
17 CUSTOM MSG 17
03 AT HOME
08 WITH A CUS-
TOMER
13 CUSTOM MSG 13
18 CUSTOM MSG 18
04 OUT SICK
09 AWAY FROM DESK
14 CUSTOM MSG 14
19 CUSTOM MSG 19
05 IN A MEETING
10 OUT ALL DAY
15 CUSTOM MSG 15
20 CUSTOM MSG 20
