Forward Calls On Your Phone; Call Park - Cisco 8961 User Manual

When forwarding calls from your phone:
• Enter the call forward target number exactly as you would dial it from your phone. For example,
enter an access code or the area code, if necessary.
• Call forwarding is phone-line specific. If a call reaches you on a line where call forwarding is not
enabled, the call will ring as usual.
• Your system administrator can set up other call forward options that:
Allow calls placed from the call forward target number to your phone to ring through, rather
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than be forwarded.
Prevent you from creating a call forward loop or exceeding the maximum number of links in
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a call forwarding chain.
Related Topics
Set Up Call Forwarding Per Line, page 95

Forward Calls on Your Phone

1. On any idle line from which you want to forward your calls, press the Forward All softkey.
2. Enter a phone number, or select an entry from the Call History list. (Depending on how your
voicemail system is set up, you may be able to press the Messages button
to voicemail.)
Visual confirmation displays for a few seconds to confirm the number to which your calls will be
forwarded.
3. To verify that your calls are forwarded, look for:
A Forward All icon
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The forwarding information in the header.
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4. To cancel call forwarding, press the Forward Off softkey.
To set up conditional call forwarding, go to your User Options Web pages.

Call Park

Call Park allows you to use your phone to park (temporarily store) a call, which you can then retrieve
from another phone
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There are two ways you can park a call:
• Park—Allows you to park an active call that you answered on your phone, and retrieve it using
another phone in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager system.
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in the line label.
for example, a phone at a co-worker's desk or in a conference room).
Calling Features
to forward all calls
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