Preventing Others From Viewing Or Joining A Shared-Line Call - Cisco 7960G Phone Manual

If you want to...
Add yourself to a call
on a shared line using
the cBarge softkey
Add new conference
participants to a call
that you have barged
Leave a barged call
Tips
• If a phone that is using the shared line has Privacy enabled, call information and barge softkeys
will not appear on the other phones that share the line.
• You will be disconnected from a call that you have joined using Barge if the call is put on hold,
transferred, or turned into a conference call.

Preventing Others from Viewing or Joining a Shared-Line Call

If you share a phone line, you can use the Privacy feature to prevent others who share the line from
viewing or barging (adding themselves to) your calls.
If you want to...
Prevent others from viewing or
barging calls on a shared line
Allow others to view or barge calls
on a shared line
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 4.2(3)
Then...
1. Highlight a remote-in-use call.
2. Press cBarge. (You may need to press the more softkey to display
cBarge.)
Other parties hear a tone and brief audio interruption, and call
information changes on the phone screen.
Barge the call using cBarge, if available.
Unlike Barge, cBarge converts the call into a standard conference call,
allowing you to add new participants. See
page 30.
Hang up.
If you hang up after using Barge, the remaining parties hear a disconnect
tone and the original call continues.
If you hang up after using cBarge, the call remains a conference call
(provided at least three participants remain on the line).
Then...
1. Press Private
2. To verify that Privacy is on, look for the Privacy-enabled
icon
1. Press Private
2. To verify that Privacy is off, look for the Privacy-disabled
icon
Making Conference Calls,
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next to the line button
.
next to line button
Advanced Call Handling
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