Station Options; Call Waiting/Background Announce; Hands-Free Answer; Message Monitor - ESI -1000 User Manual

User's Guide

3 Station options

The station options sub-menu (PROG/HELP 3) lets you activate or deactivate several features your station
can provide. At each option sub-menu, 1 enables the option and 0 disables it. (Each option listed below is
explained elsewhere in this manual, as noted.)

1 Call waiting/background announce

See page E.13 for call waiting and page E.13 for background announce.
Note: Background announce is not available on a legacy 12-Key Feature Phone.
2 Personal greeting reminder
See page F.10.
3 [Unused]
4 Outside dial tone preference
See page F.13.

5 Hands-free answer

Note: With an ESI Cordless Handset, use of this feature requires a headset.
See page E.3.
Note: Not available on a legacy 12-Key Feature Phone.

6 Message monitor

See page F.10.
Note: Not available on a legacy 12-Key Feature Phone.

7 Power-saving mode

Note: Applicable to only an ESI Cordless Handset.
Allows you to enable or disable an ESI Cordless Handset's power-saving mode. Enabling this mode helps
achieve full battery life. However, if full-time status monitoring is required, you can disable this mode. In
power-saving mode, the phone system blocks all status updates
Handset has been idle for 30 seconds. Pressing the Cordless Handset's keys or receiving an incoming call
on it will discontinue power-saving mode.
Note: When the handset has received no calls or status updates
enters deep-sleep mode. During it, the display is blank and the LEDs don't light up. If the system
sends any updates to the Cordless Handset, it will discontinue deep-sleep mode.
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For example: If you have a programmable feature key set as a station key for someone's extension, the system updates your Cordless Handset
based on that extension's current status (busy, idle, do-not-disturb, or — with optional ESI Presence Management — off-premises).
User programming: An introduction
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to the Cordless Handset when the
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for five minutes, the Cordless Handset
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