Turning The Ring Off Or Delaying The Ring - AT&T MERLIN Plus Training Manual

Turning the Ring Off or Delaying the Ring

When your MERLIN Plus phone system was first installed, every phone with an
outside line rang immediately when a call was received on that line. This is not
always desirable.
You can program your phone to specify how it will ring when an outside call is
received on a particular line. (In fact, the System Administrator already may have
set up the On/Off/Delayed ringing for each phone.) Examples of situations in which
you might want to do this are:
If your company has a Receptionist/Attendant and wants only the Attendant's
phone to ring.
If you have a personal line, you may want it to ring, but not outside lines that
you share with others.
Turning ringing on/off does not affect internal calls or transferred calls. These will
still ring.
You also can assign a delayed ring to a phone. For example, if a work group (or
company) has a Secretary/Attendant who screens calls for the others, his or her
phone should ring for all calls while the others should not. However, another phone
can be programmed for delayed ringing, so that if the Secretary/Attendant is away,
or can't be disturbed, no call will go unanswered. If you select delayed ringing for a
phone line, the second phone will ring after a specified number of rings at the first
phone.
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