Nortel BCM 3.7, Manual

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Assigning a Hotline 423
Programming Operations Guide
Assigning a Hotline
The Hotline heading under Capabilities allows you to define a telephone number that
automatically dials when you lift the receiver or press the Handsfree button on a telephone.
ISDN terminals, and legacy handsets (DECT handsets, NetVision): This feature is not
supported for this equipment.
Digital doorphone: Before you install the BST doorphone hardware, ensure there is no hotline
assigned.
Use these steps to define an internal or external Hotline number.
1
If you are not already in the DN record, click on the key beside the telephone DN to which you
want to assign a hotline.
2
Click on the key beside Capabilities .
3 Click on Hotline .
4
Use the information in the following table to configure the hotline setting for a telephone.
Table 82 Hotline values
Attribute Values Description
None The telephone does not automatically dial any number.
Internal Internal #
Direct dial set
DN:
Define the internal telephone you want to access.
Direct dial set: Will automatically dial a telephone on the system defined as a
direct dial telephone
DN: the DN of the telephone that gets automatically dialed when the user picks
up the handset
External External #
Facility Value:
Use line nnn
Use prime line
Pool code
Use routing table
Enter the complete call number for the external telephone you want to access.
Enter the line you want the call to use. (This cannot be a target line.)
Use line nnn : Refer to line assignment for this telephone.
Use prime line : Refer to the General record for this telephone.
Pool code : Refer to the line pool assignment for this telephone.
Use routing table : Refer to the routing tables. The destination code for that
table must be part of the External #.