MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
Feature Reference
555-650-110
Issue 1
June 1997
Features
Page 40
Authorization Code
Authorization Code
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At a Glance
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Description
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The Authorization Code feature allows you to pick up someone else’s telephone,
enter your authorization code, and complete a call with the restrictions that apply
to your own telephone (
home extension
). This includes toll restrictions, outward
restriction, Facility Restriction Level (FRL), Allowed Lists, Disallowed Lists,
Forced Account Code Entry, Night Service Exclusion List, and dial access to
pools. All other functions on the telephone are those of the extension you are
using, not your home extension.
Each entry of an authorization code provides restriction privileges for a single
phone call. If you put the first call on hold and start to make an outside call, the
Authorization Code button’s green LED goes off. If you wish to make another call,
you must reactivate the Authorization Code feature in order to obtain the
restriction privileges of the home extension. Authorization codes can also be used
for call control and call accounting through the SMDR printout. SMDR may be
programmed so that when no account code is entered, either the home extension
Users Affected
Telephone users, data users
Reports Affected
Extension Information, Authorization Code Information,
SMDR
Modes
All
Telephones
All (touch-tone telephones except QCC)
Programming Code
*80
Feature Code
80
MLX Display Label
Auth Code [Auth]
System Programming
Assign or remove Authorization Code for an extension:
●
Extension
→
More
→
Auth Code
→
Enter
Assign home extension in SMDR Report:
●
Options
→
SMDR
→
Auth Code
→
Home Extension Number
Assign actual authorization code in SMDR Report:
●
Options
→
SMDR
→
Auth Code
→
Authorization Code
To print a report on all authorization codes on a system:
●
More
→
→
Auth Code
Maximums
Number of Digits in
Authorization Code
11 (range 2–11) (digits 0–9,
*
)
Factory Settings
SMDR Report
Authorization codes
Home Extension Number
Not assigned to any extensions