Cisco Unity Connection allows you to record up to six personal greetings. You can turn on as many greetings as you want, and you can specify how long you want the greetings to stay on.

With a multilingual system, you have the option of providing your personal greetings in multiple languages—your default language and other languages available on your system. Note that you use the phone keypad to manage greetings in languages other than your default language; you cannot use voice commands.

The six personal greetings and how they work are described below. Note that Connection plays the greetings that you turn on for the applicable situation, while some greetings override other greetings when they are on.

Standard Greeting

This greeting plays during the business hours that your Connection administrator specified for your organization, or in other situations when no other greeting is on.

By design, the standard greeting cannot be turned off.

Closed Greeting

Turn on this greeting when you want your callers to hear a recording from you during the nonbusiness hours that your Connection administrator specified for your organization. (For example, "Sorry, I am not available to answer your call. Company office hours are <times>.")

When it is on, the closed greeting overrides the standard greeting during nonbusiness hours.

Alternate Greeting

Turn on this greeting for a specific time period when you want to provide information about special circumstances, such as when you are on vacation. (For example, "I will be out of the office until <date>.")

When it is on, the alternate greeting overrides all other greetings.

Your Connection administrator specifies whether the system transfers callers to your greeting without ringing your phone, whether callers are able to skip your greeting, and whether callers can leave you a message when your alternate greeting is on. The Alternate Greeting page in the Messaging Assistant web tool indicates the caller options that your administrator has enabled for you, if any. Note that caller options do not apply when an outside caller or another Connection user dials your extension directly.

Tip

Other Connection users do not hear your alternate greeting when they send messages to you by phone. When you turn on your alternate greeting, consider also changing your recorded name to include information that you are out of the office. Your recorded name plays when users address messages to you and when callers look you up in the directory.

Connection may play a prompt to remind you that your alternate greeting is on after you sign in by phone.

Busy Greeting

Turn on this greeting when you want callers to know that you are on the phone. (For example, "I am currently on another line, please leave a message.")

When it is on, the busy greeting overrides the standard, closed, and internal greetings when your phone is busy.

Note that not all phone systems provide the support necessary for the Connection busy greeting to work. For assistance, talk to your Connection administrator.

Internal Greeting

Turn on this greeting when you want to provide information that coworkers might need to know. (For example, "I will be in conference room B until noon today.")

When it is on, the internal greeting overrides the standard and closed greetings, and plays only to callers within your organization when you do not answer your phone.

Note that not all phone systems provide the support necessary for the internal greeting to work. For assistance, talk to your Connection administrator.

Holiday Greeting

Turn on this greeting when you want callers to hear a recording from you during a holiday. (For example, "Happy holiday. I am not available to answer your call. I will be out of the office from <date> to <date>.")

When it is on, the holiday greeting overrides the standard greeting during nonbusiness hours.

In this section, you make a new recording for the greeting that Cisco Unity Connection is currently set to play.

When you turn on your alternate greeting, you can set a date and time for it to turn off or you can leave it on indefinitely.

When you turn on a personal greeting, you specify how long you want it available for use. Cisco Unity Connection plays the greeting in the applicable situation until the date and time that you specified, and then the greeting is automatically turned off. For example, you can set your alternate greeting to stop playing on the day that you return from a vacation.

You can also set a greeting to play indefinitely, which is useful when you turn on the busy or closed greeting.

You select from one of the following sources to specify what callers hear when a greeting is on:

You can turn off a greeting at any time. When a greeting is off, Connection no longer plays it, though the recording is not erased.

Tip	If you record a personal greeting then set the greeting to use the system greeting, your recording is no longer available by phone. Record and enable a new personal greeting.

Cisco Unity Connection plays your current greeting first, then the remaining greetings.

With a multilingual system, you have the option of providing your greetings in multiple languages. For example, if Cisco Unity Connection is set up to provide prompts in French and Spanish, you might record your standard greeting in both languages so that Spanish- and French-speaking callers can hear your greeting in their own language.

If you do not record a greeting in a language that your system provides, Connection will play the system greeting for calls associated with that language. For example, if you recorded your standard greeting in French but not in Spanish, Spanish-speaking callers would hear the system greeting for you, while French-speaking callers would hear the French greeting that you recorded.

Note that when you select a language in which to record a greeting, Connection plays the Greetings menu options in the same language.

Cisco Unity Connection 10.0(1) has enhanced the current greeting experience by providing the video greetings to the caller. Unity Connection allows users to record and play video greetings using a video endpoint. Users login via direct sign-in using the telephone user interface (touchtone conversation) to record and play video greetings, which is supported by the setup options and self-enrollment. He or she can enable or disable video greeting settings using both the telephone user interface and Cisco PCA (Personal Communication Assistant).

Note	Error greetings are played in audio only.

For More information on video greetings, see the "Managing Video Greeting in Cisco Unity Connection 10.x" chapter in the System Administration Guide of Cisco Unity Connection available at http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​en/​US/​docs/​voice_ip_comm/​connection/​10x/​admin/​guide/​10xcucsagx.html.