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dial a number automatically. Somebody told 2503”. hat sets the feature “Hotline” to dial a 4-digit way too long to STAT every card in the switch.
me I could program the phone system to do the number, 2503. When someone picks up the handset,
dialing for it. Is it complicated?
the phone should automatically dial extension 2503. I don’t know a way to get the disabled
A:
RUFFIN
he 4 is the number of digits it will dial, and the digits A:
units for the whole system, but you can
following must match that number of digits.
I don’t think it’s complicated. See for
get a list from each shelf by using “ldis” followed
You may want to also have “xfd” in the CLS. hat yourself. You will need to modify the TN by the loop and shelf numbers.
Phil Rufin
keeps people from doing a hookswitch lash and of the phone you’re programming, and you need Q:
dialing another number. On the other hand, you Q:
to know the number you want the phone to dial.
I have two things to ask about. First,
We have a phone at an outside door that
I’m assuming the phone in question is an analog may want to leave it “xfa” to allow you (and those I added some managers extensions to
phone (500/2500 set). Let’s assume it needs to dial you tell) to dial other numbers from the phone.
used to be set up to dial a group number their admins and now their message lights don’t
extension 2503. Use overlay 10 or 20 to change the Q:
automatically when somebody picks it up but
work. he other thing is I have a phone that
phone’s programming. he CLS (Class of Service) it stopped working. I had to replace the phone Is there a quick way to have the PBX tell needs to be unplugged sometimes but when they
should have “mnl”. hen you can program “tr hot d 4
with another wall phone but that one doesn’t
me which ports are disabled? It takes
plug it back in it’s always disabled. Is there a way
to keep just that phone from going down over night?

A:For the irst one, it sounds like the
managers’ extensions are not on key
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