Polycom 400 IP Phone User Manual


 
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You can also enable your phone to automatically change your status to Away when your phone becomes
idle.
To enable your status to automatically change:
1 From Home view, select Settings > Basic > Preferences > Presence > Idle Timeout.
2 From the Idle Timeout screen, enable an office hours or off hours timeout period, and enter the
number of minutes your phone can be idle before your status changes to Away.
Your phone is now set to change your status to away after the designated amount of time. Pressing any
key on your phone returns your status to Online.
You can also view a list of the people you are watching and see their statuses from the Lines view on
your phone.
Managing a Buddy List
If you want to monitor other people’s status from your phone, you need to add contacts to your Buddy list.
You can add people to your Buddy list from your Contact Directory. You must make sure you add
contacts to the Contact Directory to add them as buddies and monitor their status.
To add a contact to monitor on your Buddy list:
1 From your Contact Directory, select a contact.
2 From the contact’s information screen, press Edit.
3 From the Edit Contact screen, navigate to Watch Buddy, and select enable or disable.
When enabled, the contact is added to your Buddy list so you can monitor the contact’s status.
When disabled, the contact is removed from your Buddy list, and you won’t be able to monitor the
contact’s status.
4 Press Save.
Power Tip: Dialing Buddies
You can quickly dial a buddy by accessing your Buddy list. Use the up and down arrow keys to
locate the buddy and press Dial.