Group Paging Mode; Sending And Receiving Pages - Polycom IP5000 User Manual

Group Paging Mode

Your system administrator may enable your phone to operate in a broadcast
mode called Group Paging mode. In this mode, you broadcast one-way
announcements to a specified group of phones, called a Paging Group. In
Group Paging mode, users must subscribe to Paging Groups to send and
receive pages.

Sending and Receiving Pages

To send and receive pages, you need to subscribe to certain Paging Groups. By
default, you're subscribed to Paging Groups 1, 24, and 25. This means that you
can send and receive pages to Paging Groups 1, 24, and 25.
Sending Pages
By default, when you send a group page, it's automatically sent to
Paging Group 1. This is your default paging group.
You can change your default paging group to any group you want (see
Updating the Default Paging Group
paging group, you're automatically subscribed to it.
You can't send a Page-mode page while you're in an active call.
To send a page:
1. To send a page, press the Paging soft key.
To automatically send a page to the default paging group, press and hold the
Paging soft key, and then go to step 4.
2. From the Paging Groups List screen, select the paging group to send the
page to.
The list displays the default paging group, the most recent group you
paged, and other paging group that you can page.
3. To begin a page, press the Page soft key.
Just before the page starts, you'll hear an alert tone, and then the page
begins.
4. Begin speaking.
5. To end the page, press the End Page soft key.
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