Overview; Setting Up Extensions For Standard Phones; Using The Switchhook; Using Feature Phones - AT&T Partner Series Installation And Use Manual

Overview

The call handling procedures in
this chapter are meant to be
photocopied and given to those
users with standard phones.
Single-line cordless phones, and
fax machines and answering
machines with built-in phones,
function the same way standard
phones do as described in this
chapter.
Setting Up Extensions
for Standard Phones

Using the Switchhook

Some feature phones have a
button labeled "Recall" or "Flash"
that you can press instead of
pressing the switchhook.

Using Feature Phones

You can connect standard touch-tone or rotary dial phones directly to the
system without expensive adapters or connecters. Standard phones can do
many of the things that the PARTNER phones can do, but because standard
phones have no line buttons, feature buttons, or calling feature buttons, basic
call handling is sometimes different.
You cannot make or answer a call on a specific line. You can only make
calls on automatically selected lines.
You cannot use the PARTNER system's Privacy feature, nor can you join a
call at another extension. However, another call can add you to a
conference call.
You cannot pick up a call on hold at another extension. However, you can
receive a transferred call.
You cannot use a standard phone to change system settings.
You must set the Automatic Line Selection to "Intercom first" for all standard
phones, regardless of whether the standard phone is at an extension by itself or
shares an extension with a PARTNER phone (see p. 3-3). When you lift the
handset on a standard phone, you are automatically connected to an intercom
line. To get an outside line, dial [
Some of the procedures here direct you to "rapidly press and release the
switchhook." Pressing the switchhook down for 1/4 to 1 second sends a signal
over the line called a switchhook flash. However, do not press the switchhook
too quickly. If you press the switchhook and nothing happens, try again,
pressing a little longer.
A feature phone is a standard telephone with more buttons than a 12-key dial
pad (for example, auto dial buttons, last number redial buttons, hold buttons,
and built-in speakerphones). Most features on these phones will work with the
PARTNER system. You can use the system's calling features from a feature
phone, and program them onto a feature phone button. However, there are
some limitations to what these phones can do.
The capabilities of a feature phone are in the phone itself. For example, if you
store a number on a feature phone's auto dial button, that number is stored in
the feature phone. (When you program a button on a PARTNER phone, the
number is actually stored in the 206 module.) Similarly, when you press a [
button on a feature phone, the call is held at the phone itself. Therefore, a
feature phone does not release a held call.
To store an outside number on a feature phone's auto dial button, add a 9
[pause] [pause] before each outside number. (The 9 gets an outside line, and
the [pause] accounts for the few seconds in which the outside line connects.)
Note that the feature phone's redial button will not work for an outside call. To
redial the last number, use the PARTNER system's Last Number Redial feature
by pressing [ ] [ ] [ ].
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Using Standard Telephones
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