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*70 - Deactivate Call waiting
Amernet
Unified Communications supports call waiting, but in order to use this feature you must have a phone terminal that
is call waiting compliant. In order to deactivate call waiting and let the persons that call you hear the BUSY signal when you are involved in another phone conversation, dial *70 from your extension phone keypad.
Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone. Call waiting can also be deactivated from the Amernet
Unified Communications web interface in Phone Terminal properties page.

*71 - Activate Call waiting
In order to take advantage of the call waiting option, dial *71 from your extension phone keypad. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone. Call waiting can also be activated from the Amernet
Unified Communications web interface in Phone Terminal properties page.

*78 - Activate Do Not Disturb
When Do Not Disturb is activated, the extension cannot be contacted and the phone will not ring. A custom sound file, which is chosen in the Amernet
Unified Communications web interface, can be also played. If you want to activate the Do Not Disturb function, dial *78 from your extension phone keypad. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone. The Do Not Disturb function can also be activated from the Amernet Unified Communications web interface in Phone Terminal properties page.

*79 - Deactivate Do Not Disturb
If you want to deactivate the Do Not Disturb function, dial *79 from your extension phone keypad. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone. The Do Not Disturb function can also be deactivated from the Amernet
Unified Communications web interface in Phone Terminal properties page.

*72 - Activate Transfer to Extension Unconditionally
All calls will be automatically transferred to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension if a matching rule is defined in the incoming rules group. The originally called extension will no longer ring. In order to activate unconditional call transfer, dial *72 followed by the local extension number where you want to transfer calls. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.

*73 - Deactivate Transfer to Extension Unconditionally
If you want to deactivate unconditional call transfers to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension, matching the incoming rules defined, dial *73 followed by the local extension number from your extension phone keypad. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.

*90 - Activate Transfer to Extension When Busy
In order to activate on busy call transfer to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension, matching the incoming rules defined, dial *90 followed by the local extension number where you want to transfer calls. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.

*91 - Deactivate Transfer to Extension When Busy
If you want to deactivate on busy call transfers to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension, matching the incoming rules defined, dial *91 followed by the local extension number from your extension phone keypad. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.

*92 - Activate Transfer to Extension When No Answer
In order to activate call transfer to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension when there is no answer, matching the incoming rules defined, dial *92 followed by the local extension number where you want to transfer calls. Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.

*93 - Deactivate Transfer to Extension When No Answer
If you want to deactivate call transfer to EXTENSION_NUMBER extension when there is no answer, matching the incoming rules defined, dial *93 followed by the local extension number from your extension phone keypad.
Wait for the confirmation message and hang-up the phone.


Phone Voicemail Access and Company Directory

*95 – Listen to Your Voicemail messages
If you have Voicemail enabled for your extension, you can dial *95 from your extension phone keypad in order to manage voice mail messages. You can listen and delete voice mail messages using the integrated menu. The Voicemail password is required in order to access the mailbox over the phone. The mailbox management features are also available in the
Amernet Unified Communications web interface, in the Mailbox area. You can also access your mailbox, if you call your extension number and press * after you hear the Voicemail welcome message. This is a good idea, if you call your extension from another extension or you call your extension public phone number from an external phone number.

*950 - Enable/Disable Your Voicemail
If you have Voicemail enabled for your extension and you want to disable it, or if it is disabled and you wish to enable it, dial *950 from you extension phone keypad in order to change the status of your Voicemail. The mailbox management features are also available in the
Amernet Unified Communications web interface, in the Mailbox area.

*95XXXX - Call Directly to the Voice Mail of an Extension.
You can use *95 to leave a message to an extension without actually calling that extension. This feature is useful if you want to leave a voice mail message to an extension without waiting for the Voice mail to automatically enter after a fixed number of seconds.

#3 - Transfer an Active Call to the Voicemail of a Particular Extension.
You can use #3 when an extension receives a call and cannot handle it. The called extension can then transfer the active call directly to the Voicemail of a particular extension where the caller's issue can be addressed.

*22 - Interrogate the Company Directory
If you want to call a person and you do not know his name, dial *22 from your extension. You will be asked for the person’s name. If the person name can be found in the directory, you will be directed automatically to his/her extension. The person you wish to contact can choose to hide from the Company Directory, in which case you cannot find him in the directory.


Queue Agents

*96 – Login the Queue Agent Owning the Extension
If you are an agent in a queue and you want to take calls from your personal extension, you can dial *96 from your extension phone keypad in order to login to the system. You will be prompted for your agent password. After login, the system will expect to find you at the extension you logged in from.

*97 - Login any Queue Agent
If you are an agent in a queue and you are currently at another system extension, you can dial *97 from the extension phone keypad in order to login to the system. You will be prompted for your agent number and password. After login, the system will expect to find you at the extension you logged in from.


*98 - Disconnect the Queue Agent
If you are currently logged to the system as an agent, you can logout by dialing *98 from the extension phone keypad. The agent connected to the extension you dialed from will be automatically logout from the system.

*26 and *28 - Pause and Unpause the Agent Session
If you are currently logged in the system as an agent and you want to take a break without logging out of the queue, you must dial *26 followed by the number of your extension. This code lets Amernet
Unified Communications that you are not available and that calls should not be assigned to your extension. To return to the queue activity you must dial *28 followed by the number of your extension. If you have logged in the queue from the phone associated with your extension, you can use the shortcut *26 to pause and *28 to un-pause your session.

*999 - Supervise Queue Conversations
If you are a queue supervisor, you can start listening to the active queue conversations by dialing *999 followed by the number of the queue extension. Amernet
Unified Communications will announce the extension number of the first found active agent and start playing his conversation. To listen to the next available call, you must dial *.


Pick Up Another Extension's Call
Let's consider the following example: there are two secretaries sharing an office. Each of them has a Amernet
Unified Communications phone terminal extension. Their extensions belong to the same client account. Their extensions have the permission Extension is multi-user aware enabled.
Let's assume one of the secretaries is out of the office and her phone is ringing. Amernet
Unified Communications allows the second secretary to pick up any call that rings on her colleague's phone.

*21 - Pick Up First Call Ringing
If your phone terminal extension has the Extension is multi-user aware permission enabled, you can pick up any call that is ringing on the extensions that belong to the same client account as you. By dialing *21 on your phone keypad you will pick up the first call in the list of calls that are ringing on the client account.

*21 - Pick Up Call Ringing
If there are several calls ringing on your client account and you want to pick up the call on a specific extension, you must dial *21 followed by the number of the target extension. For example, let's assume there are two calls ringing at the same time on extensions 00100004 and 00100005. To pick up the call on 00100004, you must dial *210004.

*21 - Pick Up First Matching Call
To pick up the call ringing on a certain extension, you do not have to specify the entire number of the target extension. If you dial *21 followed by the first few digits of the number (PARTIAL_NUMBER), Amernet
Unified Communications will pick up the call on the first extension whose number matches PARTIAL_NUMBER. For example, let's assume there are two calls ringing at the same time on extensions 00100211 and 00100222. To pick up the call on 00100222, you can dial *21222 (instead of *210222).

*66 - Dial the Last Missed Call
Starting with Amernet
Unified Communications version 2.0.0 a phone terminal extension can contact the last missed call by dialing *66.

*65/*85 Activate/deactivate Callerid for Outgoing Calls
Starting with Amernet
Unified Communications version 2.0.0 a phone terminal extension can activate CallerID for outgoing calls from phone by using *65. To deactivate CallerID for outgoing phone terminal extensions can use *85.


Call Conference Features

Initializing a conference
Initializing a conference from a local extension 8YOUR_NUMBER – creates a conference room
If your extension has the conference features enabled, you can create a new conference room by dialing 8 followed by your short extension number.

Joining a conference
• Joining a conference initialized by a local extension
Users can join a conference created by an extension by dialing 8 followed by the short extension number.


• Joining a scheduled conference
Users can join a conference initiated by an external number by dialing the extension number (from local) or the public number of the conference. They will be asked to enter the conference id an a password.


Conference Administrator Functions
During a conference, the conference administrator has access to the following functions:

1.Invite - Invites another extension to the conference. For this purpose, dial:
• *8ext_number# - Where ext_number is the short number of that extension.

2.Kick/Quit gracefully - Kicks users out of the conference. For this purpose, dial:
• *30# - Quits gracefully all the users except for the member entering the command.
• *31# - Kicks out the user who joined the conference last.
• *32# - Kicks out all the users except for the member entering the command.

3.Lock/Unlock - Prevents new users from joining a conference in progress.
For this purpose, dial:
• *21# - Locks the conference.
• *20# - Unlocks the conference.

4.Mute/Unmute - Mutes the other participants. For this purpose, dial:
• *11# - Mutes all the members except for the one who typed the command.
• *10# - Unmutes all the members except for the one who typed the command.


Help Message
*000 – listen a help message from your provider
In order to listen to a help message from your provider, you can dial *000
from your extension phone keypad.

System Test
*52 – echo test
If you want to test the extension’s connection with the server, you can dial *52 from your extension phone

Keypad. Everything you speak in the phone will be replied back. This is very useful, if you want to test the latency of the connection to the Amernet
Unified Communications server.

Phone Services
*94 – listen the Date/Time
In order to find out the Day and Time of the Amernet
Unified Communications server, dial *94 from your extension phone keypad. This may not be your local time due to the differences in the time zone.

Intercom/Paging Extension
INTERCOM_EXTENSION_SHORT_NUMBER
If you wish to call all the extensions assigned to a Intercom/Paging extension, you must dial the respective Intercom extensions' short number (ex: 003) INTERCOM_EXTENSION_SHORT_NUMBER followed by EXTENSION_SHORT NUMBER*

If you wish to call a certain extension assigned to a Intercom/Paging extension, you must dial the respective Intercom extension's short number
followed by the number of the extension you wish to call, followed by *.

Example: If you wish to call the 009 extension, using the 003 Intercom extension, you must dial 003009*.


INTERCOM_EXTENSION_SHORT_NUMBER followed by ID_GROUP*
If you wish to call a certain extensions group assigned to a Intercom/Paging extension, you must dial the respective Intercom extension's short number followed by the extensions group ID, followed by *.

Example: If you wish to call the extensions group having the 02 ID, using the 003 Intercom extension, you must dial 00302*

Extension Involved in a Conversation
All the functions below apply only to active call conversations.

Transfer Calls

#1FORWARD_NUMBER – transfer call to extension number
When you are involved in a phone conversation, you can press #1 followed
by an extension number FORWARD_NUMBER in order to transfer the call to that extension.

Note
Since version 1.5.0 the call can also be transferred to a number outside the Amernet
Unified Communications server.

*2FORWARD_NUMBER – put caller on hold then transfer it to extension number FORWARD_NUMBER
Let's take the following example: there are two colleagues working in a support team. A call arrives on the

extension belonging to colleague no. 1. He cannot solve the caller's problem, but knows that colleague no.2

solved a similar problem last week. If he dials *2 followed by his colleague's extension number, his call

will be put on hold; then a new call will be automatically placed to his colleague's number.
Colleague no.2 answers. Colleague no.1 explains the problem, asks him to take care of it and hangs up.

Colleague no.2 will automatically be connected with the caller that was on hold.
When you are involved in a phone conversation, you can press *2 followed by an extension number

FORWARD_NUMBER. The call will be put on hold and the system will place another call to the extension

FORWARD_NUMBER.
If the FORWARD_NUMBER extension does not answer, the call is transferred back to your extension. If the

FORWARD_NUMBER extension answers, you can communicate with the extension user. When you hang up, the call that was previously put on hold will be automatically transferred to FORWARD_NUMBER.

Note
The call can also be transferred to an outside number.

Park Calls
With Amernet
Unified Communications, you can "share" calls between extensions on the same client account. Let's consider the following example: there are two extensions on the same client account. One belongs to a secretary and the other one belongs to her boss. All calls ring on the secretary's extension which filters them and transfers the important one to her boss. If the boss is currently busy, she can transfer calls to a parking lot. She can call her boss and inform him the position of the call in the parking lot. The parking lot will keep the calls on hold until the boss is able to pick them up (i.e. unpark the calls). It is essential that the two extensions have the Extension is multi-user aware permission enabled; otherwise, they are not allowed to park or unpark calls.

#2 – park call
If you want to send an answered call to the parking lot, you must press #2 on the phone keypad. The system announces the position of the call in the parking lot (this position can be used to unpark the call, when there are several calls in the parking lot). The call will be kept on hold until it is unparked by another extension from the same client account. If the call remains in the parking lot for a time period equal to the Parking timeout, it will be automatically returned to the extension that parked it.

Note
An extension can use the call parking feature only if it has the Extension is multiuser aware permission enabled. See the user documentation for details on how to
set this permission.

*221 – unpark first call
To unpark the first call found in the parking lot, you must dial *221 on the phone keypad.

Note
An extension can unpark calls only if it has the Extension is multi-user aware permission enabled. See the user documentation for details on how to set this
permission.

*225 – unpark selected call
If there are several calls in the parking lot, you can choose the one you want to pick up. If you don't know the position of the call in the parking lot, dial *225 from your phone keypad. The system informs you about the Caller-IDs and their positions in the parking lot. When you hear the Caller-ID and position of the call you want to unpark, press * on your phone keypad. If you already know the position where the call was parked, dial *225 followed by the position.

For example:
• you can unpark the third call in the parking to by dialing *2253
• you can unpark the tenth call in the parking to by dialing *22510

Note
An extension can unpark calls only if it has the Extension is multi-user aware permission enabled. See the user documentation for details on how to set this
permission.

*229 – unpark last call
To unpark the last call found in the parking lot, you must dial *229 on the phone keypad.

Note
An extension can unpark calls only if it has the Extension is multi-user aware permission enabled. See the user documentation for details on how to set this
permission.

Call Recording
*1 – one touch call recording
When you are involved in a phone conversation, if your extension has the call recording features active, you can record calls by pressing *1. A custom sound file, which is chosen in the Amernet
Unified Communications web interface, can be also played when call recording starts.
In order to stop a call recording, you must press *1 again.

*0– one touch conference recording
When you add a new conference extension, you must define its recording behaviour using the radio buttons from the Record conference conversations setting. The available options are:

Note
Keep in mind that the custom sound file chosen from the Amernet
Unified Communications interface to notify about recording events is played.

• Always - When this option is enabled, all scheduled conferences will be recorded.
• Never - When this options is enabled NO scheduled conferences are recorded.
• User's choice - When this option is enabled a new setting will appear in the Schedule Conference page. The Record conference conversations settings allows the user to choose his recording preferences.

There are 3 available options:
• Never - No scheduled conference call will be recorded.
• When pressing *0 - The scheduled conference call will be recorded only when *0 is pressed. To stop the recording press *0 again.
• All calls are recorded - All scheduled conference calls will be recorded.
• When involved in a conference started by yourself, you can record all conversations by pressing *0#. This is available only if you are logged in as admin. Otherwise, pressing *0# will render the available member count. In order to stop a call recording, you must press *0# again.

Note
Pressing *0# will record the conference only if you have selected the User's choice option for the Record conference conversations setting, available
in the Edit Conference Extension page.


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