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Changing your active settings
You can change your active settings in the following ways:
Q Change each active setting individually by going to the appropriate folder or dialog box.
For example, you can set your active greeting in the Greetings folder, your active routing
list in the Routing Lists folder, your
Where I Am setting by forwarding your calls, and
so forth.
Q Change several active settings at once by selecting a personal status. For example, if
your On Vacation personal status uses the “I’m on vacation” greeting and specifies that
your phone does not ring, whenever you select the On Vacation status, “I’m on vacation”
becomes the active greeting and your Taking calls setting is set to No.
Q Change active settings directly by using the Active Settings dialog box (see the next
section).
Each change you make to an active setting overrides the previous one.
Example: You select the personal status On Vacation, which makes the “I’m on vacation”
greeting active. Then you open the Greetings folder and make the “Standard” greeting active.
The “Standard” greeting is now the active one, even though the On Vacation personal status is
still in effect.
Changing your active settings directly
The Active Settings dialog box gives you quick access to all your active settings in one place.
Changes you make in this dialog box become your new active settings, and remain active until
something else changes them, for example, until you select a new personal status or change the
active greeting in the Greetings folder.
You can use the Active Settings dialog box in the following ways:
Q See at a glance all your current active settings, so that you know how your incoming calls
are being handled.
Q Set an aspect of a personal status differently whenever you select that status. For
example, whenever you select the status Out of the Office, you might want to specify a
different call forwarding location. You would select the status, and then specify your call
forwarding location in the Active Settings dialog box.
You can set a personal status to open the Active Settings dialog box whenever you select
that personal status so that you can make this kind of change. To do so, edit the personal
status as shown in
“Modifying a personal status” on page 9-6, and check When I select
this Personal Status, prompt me to change these settings.
Note:If you find that you override a personal status preference frequently in the same
way, consider changing the preference in the personal status permanently. For example,
if you want the Out of the Office personal status to always use your custom routing list that
includes your cell phone, specify that routing list in the personal status itself.