Message Waiting - Panasonic KX-TD500 Features Manual

Message Waiting

Description
The system supports the ability to inform the called party of a message waiting. The called
party, with a MESSAGE button, Another Extension Message Waiting button or Phantom
Extension Message Waiting button knows there is a message if the MESSAGE button, Another
Extension Message Waiting button or Phantom Extension Message Waiting button LED
(Light Emitting Diode) lights red. Pressing the lit MESSAGE button, Another Extension
Message Waiting button or Phantom Extension Message Waiting button, or dialing the
Message Waiting feature number can call back the caller or listen to messages which are stored
in a mailbox in the Voice Processing System.
Conditions
• Turning off the light
Either the message sender or the receiver can turn off the light.
• MESSAGE button (Owner Extension)
If a MESSAGE button is not provided on a PT, it can be assigned to a flexible (CO, DSS)
button by Station, User or System Programming.
• MESSAGE-OTHER button (Another Extension/Phantom Extension)
The Another Extension Message Waiting button or the Phantom Extension Message
Waiting button can be assigned to a flexible CO button by User or System Programming
and to a flexible DSS button by System Programming.
• SLTs with message waiting lamp
Any extension user can turn on the message waiting lamp on an SLT in the same way as the
PTs. SLTs with message waiting lamp should be connected to an ESLC (KX-TD50175) or
SLC-M (KX-T96175) card.
One of 12 message waiting lamp lighting patterns (for SLTs) can be selected by System
Programming.
• VPS Integration
If VPS Integration is employed, a VM extension informs an extension that a message is left
in his mailbox by turning on the MESSAGE lamp. The extension user can listen to the
message in the mailbox simply by pressing the red lit MESSAGE lamp.
• Call Forwarding
A message waiting notification is left on the Call Forwarding setting extension regardless
of a type of Call Forwarding features except for "To CO / TIE Line" and "No Answer to CO
/ TIE Line."
• Station Hunting
A message waiting notification to an extension in the station hunting group is treated in the
same manner as the ordinary call.
• A message can be canceled from the sending extension or from the receiving extension.
• Up to 448 message indications can be set in the system.
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