Outside Dial Tone Preference; Line Keys; Private Line - ESI -1000 User Manual

User's Guide

Outside dial tone preference

If you make mostly outside calls, you may find this setting helpful. It tells your station to connect automatically to
an available outside line; i.e., you don't have to dial 9 (or 8 or 71–76) before the phone number. Therefore, when
you lift the handset or press SPEAKER, you will immediately receive an outside dial tone from the highest-
numbered line available to you.
Notes: To place an internal call while in this mode, press the appropriate station key or (a.) press TRANSFER to
switch to internal dial tone and (b.) then dial the extension number. Please note that, if you wish not to
transfer a caller but instead are only placing an internal call, you must press TRANSFER within the first five
seconds after going off-hook. Six seconds after you go off-hook, the ESI system considers the call to be a
transferred call.
On a Cordless Handset, press TALK to receive internal dial tone.

Line keys

If some of your programmable feature keys have been programmed as line keys (you can program line keys by
using PROG/HELP 2), press an unlit key to access the line. An outside call transferred to your station can be
answered by simply lifting the handset or pressing SPEAKER. You do not have to press the line key. The LED
indications for the line keys are:
LED
Solid red
Solid green
Blinking red
Notes: Dialing 9 (or 8 or 71–76) to be assigned a line automatically is always available.
Each ESI Cordless Handset has only red LEDs, and only on its programmable feature keys.
The illumination activity (such as blinking) otherwise is similar to that described above.
Privacy release
This feature makes it easy to "conference-in" on a call: just press a line key assigned to the outside line the
call is using, and you'll automatically join the call.

Private line

If a private line has been assigned to your station, you must have a line key programmed (see pp. C.2–C.3)
in order to access it.
1
This aspect (i.e., that it's always the highest line available to you) can't be changed.
2
This feature may not be available on your system, depending on how it has been programmed. If you wish to enable this feature on your phone
system, contact your System Administrator.
1
Line status
In use
Connected to your station
Ringing at another station
2
F.13
LED Line status
Blinking green Ringing at your station
Slowly blinking red On hold by another station
Slowly blinking green Held by you
Special keys