Using A Shared Line; Understanding Shared Lines - Cisco 7906G Phone Manual

When you are away from your phone, you can prevent hunt group calls from ringing your phone by
logging out of hunt groups.
If you want to...
Log out of hunt groups to
temporarily block hunt group
calls
Log in to receive hunt group
calls
Tip
Logging out of hunt groups does not prevent non-hunt group calls from ringing your phone.

Using a Shared Line

Your system administrator might ask you to use a shared line if you:
• Have multiple phones and want one phone number
• Share call-handling tasks with coworkers
• Handle calls on behalf of a manager

Understanding Shared Lines

Remote-in-Use Icon
The remote-in-use icon
You can place and receive calls as usual on the shared line, even when the remote-in-use icon appears.
Sharing Call Information and Barging
Phones that share a line each display information about calls that are placed and received on the shared
line. This information might include caller ID and call duration. (See
When call information is visible in this way, you and coworkers who share a line can add yourselves
to calls using either Barge or cBarge. See
Privacy
If you do not want coworkers who share your line to see information about your calls, enable the
Privacy feature. Doing so also prevents coworkers from barging your calls. See
Viewing or Barging a Shared-Line Call, page
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1
Then...
Press HLog. Your phone screen displays, "Logged out of Hunt
Group."
Press HLog.
appears when another phone that shares your line has a connected call.
Using Barge to Add Yourself to a Shared-Line Call, page
31.
Advanced Call Handling
Privacy, page 29 for exceptions.)
Preventing Others from
30.
29