Avaya PARTNER-18D - Manual (Page 57)

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5
Programming Telephone
Features
Overview
As the System Administrator, you should program telephones at individual
extensions with certain features. There are two types of telephone programming:
• Centralized Telephone Programming–programming individual telephones
from extension 10 or 11.
• Extension Programming–programming an individual system telephone
from the extension to which it is connected.
Use Centralized Telephone Programming to program the Required Telephone
Programming features presented in this chapter. The required features include:
• Automatic Line Selection
• Extension Name Display
• Line Ringing
Automatic Line Selection
This feature determines the line or pool a user is connected to after lifting the
handset or turning on the speaker to make a call. The system looks for lines or
pools in the order specified by Automatic Line Selection and selects the first
available line or pool.
At key extensions, with Automatic Line Selection at its factory setting, the system
first searches to find an idle outside line in numerical order (starting with the
lowest line number). If all outside lines are busy, the system searches for an idle