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Cisco Unified IP Phone Features A - Z

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Cisco Unified IP Phone Features A - Z

Abbreviated Dialing

Audible Message Waiting Indicator

Auto Answer

Auto Dial

Background Image Setting

Backlight Setting

Barge

Brightness Setting

Busy Lamp Field (BLF)

Call Back

Call Details

Call Forward All

Call History

Call Logs

Call Overview

Call Park

Call Pickup

Caller ID

Call Recording

Call Records

Call Waiting

cBarge

Client Matter Code (CMC)

Conference Features

Contrast Setting

Corporate Directory

Direct Transfer

Directed Call Park

Disable Ringer

Disable Touchscreen

Distinctive Ring

Do Not Disturb (DND)

Drop Conference Party

Edit Dial

Extension Mobility Service

Fast Dials

Forced Authorization Code (FAC)

Group Listen

Group Call Pickup

Headset Support

Help System

Hold

Hold Reversion

Immediate Divert

Intercom

Intercom Call History

Join

Keypad Lock

Line Text Label

Locale Settings

Log Out of Hunt Group

Malicious Call ID

Meet-Me Conference

Message Waiting Indicators

Mobile Connect

Mobile Voice Access

Multilevel Precedence and Preemption (MLPP)

Multiple Calls per Line Appearance

Multiple Lines per Phone

Mute

New Call Indicator Setting

On-hook Dialing

On-hook Transfer

Online Help

Password Setting

Personal Address Book

Personal Address Book Synchronizer

Personal Directory

Phone Book

Phone Help

Phone Lock

Phone Services

Phone Screen

PIN Setting

Pre-Dial

Privacy

Programmable Buttons

Quality Reporting Tool (QRT)

Redial

Remove Conference Participants

Resume

Ring Tone Setting

Secure Conferencing

Service URL Button

Shared Line

Silent Monitoring

Speaker Mode (listen-only)

Speakerphone Mode

Speed Dialing

TAPS Registration

Touchscreen

Transfer

User Options Web Pages

Vibration Alert

Video Display Mode

Video Support

View Conference List

Viewing Angle Settings

Voice Messaging

Volume Settings

WebDialer

Wideband Settings

Wireless Phone Profiles


Cisco Unified IP Phone Features A - Z


You can use this comprehensive listing of Cisco Unified IP Phone features as a quick reference guide for your phone.

Phone features can vary depending upon your company and phone model. Some of these features might not be available on your Cisco Unified IP Phone.

Abbreviated Dialing

Allows you to speed dial a phone number by entering an assigned index code on your phone keypad.

Abbreviated dialing can be useful if your phone model does not provide speed-dial buttons or if you want to configure more speed-dial numbers than you have speed-dial buttons on your phone.

You can assign index codes from your User Options web pages.

Softkey: AbbrDial

See also Fast Dials, Speed Dialing, and User Options Web Pages.

Audible Message Waiting Indicator

See Message Waiting Indicators.

Auto Answer

Allows you to connect incoming calls automatically after a ring or two (without pressing a button or picking up the handset).

Auto Answer can be useful if you receive a high volume of calls.

Your system administrator enables Auto Answer to work with either your speakerphone or headset.

Auto Dial

Allows you to choose from a list of previously dialed numbers that could match the number that you are currently dialing.

Auto Dial displays numbers from your Placed Calls log that match the current string of digits. You can choose a number from the list to place the call.

You must dial on hook (meaning, without lifting the receiver or otherwise activating a dial tone) to use the Auto Dial feature.

See also Pre-Dial.

Background Image Setting

Allows you to change the background image that displays on your phone screen.

Button: Settings

Backlight Setting

Allows you to enable or disable the backlight on your Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone.

Softkey: Menu

Barge

Allows you to add yourself to non-private calls on a shared line.

Barge features include cBarge and Barge:

cBarge adds you to a call and converts it into a conference, allowing you and other parties to access conference features.

Barge adds you to a call but does not convert the call into a conference.

Your system administrator typically enables only one of these barge features.

Softkeys: cBarge, Barge

See also Conference Features and Shared Line.

Brightness Setting

Allows you to control the brightness level of the phone screen.

Button: Settings

Busy Lamp Field (BLF)

Allows you to monitor the line state (in-use, idle, or Do Not Disturb) of a phone line associated with a speed-dial button, call log, or directory listing on your phone.

You can place a call to the line regardless of BLF status.

See also Do Not Disturb (DND).

Call Back

Allows you to initiate an audio and visual alert on your phone when a busy or unavailable party becomes available.

Button or softkey: CallBack

Call Details

Allows you to view details for a call record, such as time of day and call duration.

If the call record represents a multiparty call (for example, a call that has been forwarded or transferred to you), Call Details displays two entries per call in reverse order, starting with the most recent.

Softkeys: Details, Detail

See also Call Logs.

Call Forward All

Allows you to redirect your incoming calls to another number. You can set up call forwarding directly on your phone (for the primary line only) or from your User Options web pages (for any line on your phone).

Button: Forward All

Softkeys: CFwdALL, CFwdAll

See also User Options Web Pages.

Call History

See Call Logs.

Call Logs

Allows you to view records of your missed, received, and placed calls.

While viewing call logs, you can use softkeys to display details for a call record, erase call records, and dial from call records. If you are on another call when dialing, your phone might prompt you with options (Hold, Transfer, Conference, EndCall) for handling the first call before placing the second call.

Buttons: Directories, Directory

Softkey: Menu

See also Call Details, Edit Dial and Intercom Call History.

Call Overview

Allows you to display one call per line. The displayed call per line is either the active call, or if all calls are on hold, the held call with the longest duration.

Button: line button

Call Park

Allows you to park (temporarily store) a call and then retrieve the call by using another phone in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager system.

Call Park can be useful if you want to transfer a call from your phone to a phone in a lab or conference room.

Button or softkey: Park

Call Pickup

Allows you to redirect a call ringing on another phone to your own phone, so that you can answer the call.

Call Pickup can be useful if you share call-handling tasks with coworkers.

Call Pickup features include Pickup, GPickup, and OPickup:

Pickup allows you to answer a call ringing on another phone within your "group" (a collection of extensions that your system administrator defines).

GPickup allows you to answer a call ringing on a phone in another group.

OPickup allows you to answer a call ringing on a phone in another group that is associated with your group.

Buttons: PickUp, Group PickUp, Other PickUp

Softkeys: PickUp, GPickUp, OPickUp

Caller ID

Allows you to see caller-identification, such as a phone number, name, or other descriptive text on your phone screen.

Call Recording

Allows you, if authorized, to record an active call. Parties might hear an intermittent tone (beep tone) during a call that is being recorded.

See also Silent Monitoring.

Call Records

See Call Logs.

Call Waiting

Allows you to receive an auditory incoming call alert while you are on another call.

Call waiting also displays incoming call information on your phone screen.

See also New Call Indicator Setting.

cBarge

See Barge.

Client Matter Code (CMC)

Allows you to enter a billing or tracking code when you are placing a call, as specified by your system administrator.

See also Forced Authorization Code (FAC).

Conference Features

Allow you to talk simultaneously with multiple parties.

Conference features include Conference, Join, cBarge, and Meet-Me:

Conference (or ad-hoc conference) allows you to initiate a conference by calling each participant.

Join allows you to connect current callers who are on a single line by creating a conference call.

cBarge allows you to establish a conference by adding yourself to a call on a shared phone line.

Meet-Me allows you to call a predetermined number at a scheduled time to host or join a conference.

Buttons: Conference, MeetMe

Softkeys: Confrn, Join, cBarge, MeetMe

See also Join, Meet-Me Conference, Remove Conference Participants, Secure Conferencing, and View Conference List.

Contrast Setting

Allows you to adjust the contrast for your phone screen.

Button: Settings

Corporate Directory

Allows you to access a workplace directory on your phone.

If you are on another call when dialing from a directory listing, your phone might prompt you with options (Hold, Transfer, Conference, EndCall) for handling the first call before placing the second call.

Buttons: Directories, Directory

Softkey: Menu

Direct Transfer

Allows you to connect two calls to each other (without remaining on the line yourself).

Softkey: DirTrfr

See also Transfer.

Directed Call Park

Allows you to direct and store an active call at a directed call park number. Allows you to retrieve a parked call from any phone in your network by dialing the retrieval prefix and directed call park number.

Directed Call Park works with the Busy Lamp Field feature (if available) to indicate whether the line associated with the directed call park number is in-use or idle.

See also Busy Lamp Field (BLF).

Disable Ringer

See Do Not Disturb (DND), New Call Indicator Setting, Wireless Phone Profiles, and Vibration Alert.

Disable Touchscreen

Allows you to disable the touchscreen for cleaning.

Button: Display

Distinctive Ring

See New Call Indicator Setting and Ring Tone Setting.

Do Not Disturb (DND)

Allows you to block incoming calls from ringing on your phone.

The Busy Lamp Field feature (BLF) can indicate if a line on another phone is in the DND state.

You can customize DND settings from your User Options web pages.

Button: Do Not Disturb

Softkey: DND

See also Busy Lamp Field (BLF) and User Options Web Pages.

Drop Conference Party

See Remove Conference Participants.

Edit Dial

Allows you to edit or delete a phone number that is displayed in a call record or corporate directory before dialing the number.

Edit Dial can be useful to add a prefix to a phone number in one of your call logs.

Softkey: EditDial

See also Call Logs and Corporate Directory.

Extension Mobility Service

Allows you temporarily to apply your phone number and user profile settings to a shared phone by logging into the Extension Mobility service on that phone.

Extension Mobility can be useful if you work from a variety of locations within your company or share a workspace with coworkers.

Button: Services

Softkey: Menu

Fast Dials

Allows you to select a Fast Dial code to place a call.

You can set up Fast Dials directly on your phone or from your User Options web pages. You can assign Fast Dial codes to phone numbers and to Personal Address Book entries.

Fast Dials can be useful if your phone model does not provide speed dial-buttons or if you want to configure more speed-dial numbers than you have speed-dial buttons on your phone.

Buttons: Directories, Services

Softkey: Menu

See also Abbreviated Dialing, Personal Address Book, Speed Dialing, and User Options Web Pages.

Forced Authorization Code (FAC)

Allows you to enter an authorization code specified by your system administrator to place calls to certain numbers.

See also Client Matter Code (CMC).

Group Listen

Allows you to talk on the handset and listen on the speaker.

Softkey: GListen

Group Call Pickup

See Call Pickup.

Headset Support

Allows you to use a headset with your phone.

Button: Headset

Help System

Allows you to access information about phone features, buttons, and softkeys.

Buttons: Help, Select

Hold

Allows you to move a connected call from an active state to a held state.

Your phone allows one active call at a time; other calls are put on hold.

Button or softkey: Hold

See also Hold Reversion and Resume.

Hold Reversion

Allows you to receive a single ring, beep, or flash at intervals when a call is holding. Hold Reversion can also provide visual reminders on your phone screen.

Button or softkey: Hold, Resume

See also Hold and Resume.

Immediate Divert

Allows you to transfer a ringing, connected, or held call directly to your voice message system.

Softkey: iDivert

Intercom

Allows you to place and receive one-way calls using dedicated intercom lines. The target phone auto-answers with mute activated and broadcasts your message through the speakerphone (or through the headset or handset, if active).

The recipient can initiate two-way audio.

Button: Intercom line button

See also Intercom Call History.

Intercom Call History

Allows you to view the most recent intercom calls.

See also Call Logs and Intercom.

Join

Allows you to join two or more calls that are on one line to create a conference call. You remain on the call.

Depending on configuration, you can also use this feature to join together two conference calls that are on the same line.

Softkey: Join

See also Conference Features.

Keypad Lock

Allows you to lock and unlock the keypad on your Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone.

Button: Settings

Softkey: Menu

Line Text Label

Allows you to create a line text label that appears on your phone screen for each phone line.

This feature can be useful if you have multiple lines on your phone.

You can access this setting from your User Options web pages.

See also User Options Web Pages.

Locale Settings

Allow you to change the language (locale) that your User Options web pages and/or phone screen used to display text.

You can access locale settings from your User Options web pages.

See also User Options Web Pages.

Log Out of Hunt Group

Allows you to log out of a hunt group and temporarily block hunt group calls. Logging out of hunt groups does not prevent non-hunt group calls from ringing your phone.

Button: Hunt Group

Softkey: HLog

Malicious Call ID

Allows you to notify your system administrator about suspicious or harassing calls that you receive.

Button: Malicious Call ID

Softkey: MCID

Meet-Me Conference

Allows you to host a Meet-Me conference in which other participants call a predetermined number at a scheduled time.

Button or softkey: MeetMe

See also Conference Features.

Message Waiting Indicators

Allow you to receive audible and visual alerts for new voice messages, including:

A stutter dial tone

A continuous red light on your handset

A message icon on your phone screen

You can configure some message waiting indicators from your User Options web pages.

See also User Options Web Pages.

Mobile Connect

Allows you to switch between your desktop phone and your cell phone without disrupting in-progress calls and allows callers to reach you on either phone by using just your desktop phone number.

Mobile Connect can be useful if you want to use your cell phone to answer a call intended for your desktop phone and then switch between phones without disrupting the connection.

You can configure settings in your User Options web pages.

Button or softkey: Mobility

See also Mobile Voice Access and User Options Web Pages.

Mobile Voice Access

Allows you to control Mobile Connect features through an interactive voice response (IVR) system.

See also Mobile Connect.

Multilevel Precedence and Preemption (MLPP)

Allows you to make and receive urgent or critical calls. You can use MLPP access codes to set the priority level for calls that you make and you can identify priority levels for incoming calls by distinctive ring tones and phone screen icons.

Your system administrator must enable MLPP for your phone.

Multiple Calls per Line Appearance

Allows you to make and receive multiple calls on each of your phone lines.

Typical default configuration specifies four calls per phone line, but your system administrator can adjust this setting.

Multiple Lines per Phone

Allows you to use multiple phone lines to make and receive calls.

Your system administrator assigns one or more lines (directory numbers) to your phone.

Mute

Allows you to disable the audio input for your handset, headset, speakerphone, and external microphone, so that you can hear other parties on the call but they cannot hear you.

Button: Mute

Softkeys: MuteOn, MuteOff

New Call Indicator Setting

Allows you to specify the type of alert per line that your phone uses to indicate an incoming call, depending on whether the phone is in use or idle. Ring indicator settings include ring once, flash only, beep only, and do nothing (no ring).

You can customize the call indicator setting from your User Options web pages.

See also Call Waiting, Ring Tone Setting, and User Options Web Pages.

On-hook Dialing

See Pre-Dial.

On-hook Transfer

Allows you to hang up to complete the transfer of a call.

See also Transfer.

Online Help

See Help System.

Password Setting

Allows you to change your password from your User Options web pages.

See also User Options Web Pages.

Personal Address Book

Allows you to create a directory of personal contacts that you can access on your phone and from your User Options web pages.

Buttons: Directories, Services

Softkey: Menu

See also Personal Address Book Synchronizer, Personal Directory, and User Options Web Pages.

Personal Address Book Synchronizer

Allows you to synchronize data that is stored in your Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, or Microsoft Outlook Express address book(s) with the Cisco Unified Communications Manager directory and your Personal Address Book.

Your system administrator must enable this feature.

See also Personal Address Book.

Personal Directory

Allows you to set up and use Personal Directory features (Personal Address Book and Fast Dials) on your phone and your User Options web pages.

Buttons: Directories, Services

Softkey: Menu

See also Fast Dials, Personal Address Book, and User Options Web Pages.

Phone Book

Allows you to create and use a personal phone book on your Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone.

Softkey: PhBook

See also Personal Address Book.

Phone Help

See Help System.

Phone Lock

Allows you to lock your Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone.

Softkey: Menu

Phone Services

Allow you to subscribe to a phone service from your User Options web pages and then access the service on your phone.

Phone services can be useful for accessing features, network data, and web-based information, such as stock quotes and movie listings.

Button: Services

Softkey: Menu

See also Service URL Button and User Options Web Pages.

Phone Screen

Allows you to view features, menus, call activity, caller ID, and other information on your phone.

PIN Setting

Allows you to change your PIN from your User Options web pages.

See also User Options Web Pages.

Pre-Dial

Allows you to enter a phone number before getting a dial tone and to complete the call by going off hook (lifting the handset, pressing the speakerphone button, etc.).

See also Auto Dial.

Privacy

Allows you to prevent coworkers who share your line from adding themselves to your calls or viewing information on their phone screens about your calls.

Button or softkey: Private

See also Shared Line.

Programmable Buttons

Allow you to access:

Phone lines (line buttons) and intercom lines (intercom buttons)

Speed-dial numbers (speed-dial buttons)

Web-based phone services (for example, a corporate calendar button)

Phone and call features (for example, a Privacy, Hold, or Transfer button)

Your system administrator can configure line buttons and other programmable buttons for your phone.

You can use your User Options web pages to assign some types of programmable buttons, such as speed-dial buttons and phone service buttons.

See also Intercom, Phone Services, Service URL Button, Speed Dialing, and User Options Web Pages.

Quality Reporting Tool (QRT)

Allows you to submit call quality information to your system administrator upon request.

Button: Quality Reporting Tool

Softkey: QRT

Redial

Allows you to call the most recently dialed phone number by pressing a button.

Button or softkey: Redial

Remove Conference Participants

Allows the conference initiator to drop participants from the conference call using Remove or Remove Last Conference Participant:

Remove drops the selected participant.

Remove Last Conference Participant drops the most recently added participant.

Button: Remove Last Participant

Softkeys: Remove, Remove Last Participant, RmLstC, RMLstC

See also Secure Conferencing.

Resume

Allows you to resume a call that is on hold.

Button or softkey: Hold, Resume

See also Hold and Hold Reversion.

Ring Tone Setting

Allows you to change the ring sound for each phone line.

Button: Settings

Softkey: Menu

See also New Call Indicator Setting.

Secure Conferencing

Allows you to verify that a conference call is secure and identify non-secure participants. Phone screen icons indicate the security level of the conference and of each participant.

Security levels are: authenticated, encrypted, and non-secure.

See also Conference Features and Remove Conference Participants.

Service URL Button

Allows you to access a service from a programmable button on your phone.

You can assign services to buttons from your User Options web pages.

See also Phone Services, Programmable Buttons, and User Options Web Pages.

Shared Line

Allows you to use one phone number for multiple phones or to share a phone number with a coworker.

Shared lines can use special features such as Barge and Privacy.

See also Barge and Privacy.

Silent Monitoring

Allows you (if authorized) to monitor calls without being heard by parties on the call. Parties might hear an intermittent tone (beep tone) during a call that is being monitored.

See also Call Recording.

Speaker Mode (listen-only)

Allows you to listen hands-free (without using the handset).

Softkey: Monitor

See also Speakerphone Mode.

Speakerphone Mode

Allows you to talk and listen hands-free (without using a handset or headset).

Button: Speaker

Speed Dialing

Allows you to enter an index code, press a button, or select a phone screen item to place a call.

You can use your User Options web pages to assign a speed-dial number to a programmable phone button or to an Abbreviated Dialing index code.

Button: speed-dial button, assigned keypad button

See also Abbreviated Dialing, Fast Dials, and User Options Web Pages.

TAPS Registration

Allows you to register a phone with the network, as requested by your system administrator. TAPS is the Tool for Auto-Registered Phones Support.

Touchscreen

Allows you to press the phone screen to choose menu items, softkeys, and feature tabs (on Cisco Unified IP Phones with touch-sensitive phone screens only).

Transfer

Allows you to redirect a connected call from your phone to another number. Transfer features include Transfer and Direct Transfer:

Transfer allows you to redirect a single call to a new number, with or without consulting the transfer recipient.

Direct Transfer allows you to transfer two calls to each other without remaining on the line yourself.

Button: Transfer

Softkeys: Transfer, Trnsfer, DirTrfr

See also Direct Transfer and On-hook Transfer.

User Options Web Pages

Allow you to use your computer to control features, settings, and services for your phone.

Your Cisco Unified Communication Manager User Options web pages (User Options web pages) can be useful for setting up speed-dial buttons and other features, settings, and services.

Your system administrator can provide you with a User Options URL and login information.

Vibration Alert

Allows you to turns the vibration alert on or off on your Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone.

Button: Asterisk (*) key

Video Display Mode

Allows you to select the video display mode for viewing a video conference.

Your system administrator enables the supported video modes for your phone system.

Button: Video

Softkey: VidMode

Video Support

Allows you to make video calls, assuming the availability of compatible equipment (such as a camera and software).

Video support can be indicated by an icon on your phone.

View Conference List

Allows you to view current participants in a conference call.

Button: Conference List

Softkeys: ConfList, ConfLis

See also Conference Features, Remove Conference Participants and Secure Conferencing.

Viewing Angle Settings

Allow you to adjust the phone screen to accommodate your viewing angle.

Button: Settings

Voice Messaging

Allows you to access a voice-messaging service from your phone, if available.

Button: Messages

Softkeys: Msgs, Message, Messages, Menu

See also Message Waiting Indicators.

Volume Settings

Allows you to adjust the volume level for the currently active audio device (handset, headset, or speaker). When no audio devices are active, pressing the Volume button adjusts the ringer volume.

Buttons: Volume, arrow keys

Softkey: Volume

WebDialer

Allows you to make calls on your phone to directory contacts by clicking items in a web browser.

Wideband Settings

Allow you to enable a wideband headset and/or handset on your phone.

Enabling wideband might result in greater audio sensitivity during a call if you use wideband devices.

Button: Settings

Wireless Phone Profiles

Allow you to change settings and profiles on your wireless Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone. Profiles include User and Network:

User profiles allow you to change volume settings, keypad tones, and low battery indicators.

Network profiles allow you to select profiles for different wireless LAN sites.

Button: Settings

Softkey: Menu