Setting the Application Status flag
the phone offer numerous applications like Contacts, Call Log/History, Redial, and so on to the
users. Each of these applications allows the user to add, delete, or in some cases, edit entries.
You, as the administrator, might not want the user to use that level of functionality. For example, a
user cannot delete the contact number of the concierge from the hotel lobby deskphone. Further,
for privacy reasons, that same deskphone must display the Call Log. You can use the Application
Status Flag, APPSTAT, to administer specific application functionality permission levels for one or
more deskphones.
APPSTAT consists of one number, specifying a certain level of allowed functionality. A Zero, 0,
value provides no functionality. Values 2 and 3 provide increasing levels of functionality, and value
1 provides the user complete application functionality.
Table 17: Application status flags and their meaning
APPSTAT value
Meaning
0
Redial and Call Logs/History are suppressed. The user cannot change Contacts.
1
All administered applications are displayed, with full functionality. This is the
default value.
2
Call Log (History) is suppressed. Contact changes are not allowed. Only one-
number Redial is allowed.
3
Contact changes are not allowed.
Suppressed
applications are not displayed to the user. Softkey labels and application tabs are not
labeled or displayed. The deskphones continue to display options associated with suppressed
applications unless you override them by appropriate OPSTAT parameter administration.
Displayed options have no effect while the application is suppressed. The message
Contact
changes are not allowed
means the Contacts application displays and the user can make calls as
normal. The deskphone does not display any controls using which the user can change any
aspect of the Contact application including adding, deleting, or editing any Contact name or
number. This restriction includes the ability to add, delete, or edit any Contact name or number.
The message
Only one-number Redial is allowed
means the user option that allows a choice
between displaying last numbers dialed is suppressed. The Redial buffer stores only one number.
The deskphone does not display the Redial application as the user can redial only one number.
This restriction allows privacy once a given user has left the deskphone.
You can:
• Set APPSTAT to 1, for example, in a staging area
• Administer a given deskphone with Contact entries of your choice, like the Concierge
deskphone number button in the earlier example
• Then move the deskphone to where it will be used, where you have administered APPSTAT
to be, for example, 0
When you change the location of the deskphone and the relocated deskphone resets, it retains its
Contact entries, like Concierge, but does not allow the user to create new entries.
Administering your phone
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