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Distinctive Ring (#308)
Description
This System Programming procedure determines whether calls should ring at a
standard device using the system’s distinctive ringing patterns—different patterns
for outside, intercom, and transferred calls—or whether all calls to the standard
device should ring like outside calls.
Considerations
■ Change the setting to Not Active if a standard device such as a modem or
answering machine does not pick up intercom or transferred calls.
■ If distinctive ring is set to Not Active for an extension where both a system
phone and a standard device are installed, the system phone continues to
use the system’s distinctive ringing patterns, but all calls ring at the
standard device using a single ring burst.
■ The system does not pass distinctive ringing patterns generated by a PBX
or central office through to extensions (regardless of the setting for this
feature).
Valid Entries
1 = Active (outside, intercom, and transferred calls ring differently, using the
ssystem’s distinctive ringing patterns) ✔
2= Not Active (outside, intercom, and transferred calls all ring using a single ring
burst)
Programming
(See Figure 2-2 on page 2-19 for the location of special programming buttons
such as
s and e on system phones.)
To change the Distinctive Ring setting:
1. Press
f 0 0 s s # 3 0 8 at extension
10 or 11.
2. At the Extension: prompt, enter the number of the extension to be
programmed. For example, to program extension 22, press
2 2.
3. To activate or deactivate Distinctive Ring for the extension, press
D
until the appropriate value displays.
4. To program another extension, press
n or p until the
extension number shows on the display. Repeat Step 3.
5. Select another procedure or exit programming mode.