Polycom VVX 500 IP Phone User Manual


 
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User Tip: How to Access Your Blocked and Watcher Lists
To view a list of contacts that can and cannot monitor your status, do the following:
To display contacts that can view your status, tap Settings from Home view, and tap
Features > Presence > Watcher List.
To display contacts that can’t view your status, tap Settings from Home view, and tap
Features > Presence > Blocked List.
To block or unblock a contact from viewing your status:
1 From your Contact Directory, tap the contact you want to block or unblock.
2 From the contact’s information screen, tap .
3 From the Edit Contact screen, tap Block Buddy, and enable or disable the field. The default setting
is Disabled. When enabled, the contact cannot watch your status, and the contact displays in your
Blocked List. When disabled, the contact can watch your status, and the contact displays in your
Watcher List.
4 Tap Save.
Timesaver: How to Quickly Unblock a Contact
You can use your Blocked List to unblock a contact, rather than updating the Contact Directory:
Tap Settings from Home view, and tap Features > Presence > Blocked List. From the Blocked
List, tap the contact you want to unblock, and tap Unblock. The contact can now watch your phone,
and displays in your Watcher List.
Monitoring Buddies
You can monitor your buddies from your Buddy Status list. If a buddy is a favorite, you can also monitor
the buddy from Home and Lines view.
Your buddies display an icon next to their name to indicate their status. The following table shows the
icons and the status they represent.
Table 9: Buddy Status and Icons
Buddy Status
Icon
Buddy Status
Icon
Available
Do Not Disturb
Busy
Offline
Away
No information