Lucent Technologies MERLIN Plus Release 2 System Manual page 147

Button-Free Line
DESCRIPTION
CONSIDERATIONS
ADMINISTRATION
5-28 MERLIN Plus System Features
Operation
Button-Free Line Operation allows people with a 5-button or any 10-button
voice terminal to access lines, even though the lines do not appear on the voice
terminal buttons. Therefore, those voice terminals have additional free buttons
for needed programmed features. This feature is ideal for people who need
several lines, but who rarely handle more than one call at a time. To place or
answer a call, they just lift their handset, and the MERLIN Plus system selects a
free line for outgoing calls or the ringing line for incoming calls.
The system administrator can assign a maximum of eight lines to a button-free
voice terminal. However, if the administrator again wants lines assigned to
buttons on a voice terminal, he or she can assign only the number of lines for
which the voice terminal has line buttons. For example, if the administrator has
assigned eight lines to a 5-button voice terminal with Button-Free Line
Operation and decides to assign lines to voice terminal buttons, only four of
those eight lines can appear. The features that the administrator or user has
programmed onto the voice terminal buttons will be replaced by lines.
With Button-Free Line Operation, the system administrator can administer the
individual voice terminals so that they ring or do not ring when calls come in.
(See "Ringing Options.") Button-Free Line Operation with the no ring option is
appropriate for voice terminals in public places, such as lobbies.
When anyone in your system uses the Button-Free Line Operation feature:
There are no red and green lights associated with lines to keep track of
call-handling features, such as Transferor Hold.
The person with Button-Free Line Operation can answer transferred calls and
ringing lines by picking up the handset.
There is no way of knowing which line the system has selected for an
outgoing call. Therefore, make sure that all lines assigned to these voice
terminals are of the same type. Do not mix regular lines, WATS lines,
and Foreign Exchange lines.
You cannot program an Automatic Line Selection sequence on voice
terminals with Button-Free Line Operation. In this case, only your system
administrator can assign the sequence of lines for your voice terminal.
You can use the Intercom, Hold, Transfer, and Call Pickup features, but you
cannot use the Bridging or the Conference feature.
If your responsibilities do not include system administration, skip this
information.
To make lines on a voice terminal button-free:
Enter administration mode by sliding the T/P switch to P and touching
1
Administer.