Using A Vvx Phone As A Common Area Phone; Entering Information In Data Fields - Polycom VVX 300 Series User Manual

Using a VVX Phone as a Common Area Phone

Your system administrator can set up VVX business media phones in your environment as a Common
Area Phone (CAP) and enable you to use the phone as a CAP user.
When a VVX phone is set up as a Common Area Phone, you can access only the following features:
• Flexible Line Keys
• Better Together over Ethernet
• Address Book Service search

Entering Information in Data Fields

You can enter information and edit fields using the dial pad keys on the phone console or the onscreen
keyboard on supported phones.
Before you enter information into fields, you can choose how to enter the information using the following
soft keys:
• Mode—Enables you to enter just numbers or text in title case, lowercase, or uppercase characters.
• Encoding—Enables you to enter alphanumeric and special characters as well as characters in
special languages.
The following table lists the Mode and Encoding options for the dial pad and the onscreen keyboard.
Mode and Encoding Options
Mode Options
Abc (to capitalize the first letter only and use
lowercase for the remaining letters)
ABC (to enter uppercase only)
abc (to enter lowercase only)
123 (to enter numbers only)
When the onscreen keyboard is displayed, the Encoding and Mode soft keys are not available.
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Encoding Options
Abc
ABC
abc
123
ASCII (for regular text)
Latin (to enter accented characters)
Katakana (for Japanese characters)
Unicode (to store characters as double bytes)
Cyrillic (for Russian characters)
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