The Application Status Flag (APPSTAT)

The 4610SW, 4620/4620SW, 4621SW, 4622SW, and 4625SW IP Telephones offer the user numerous applications like Speed Dial, Call Log, Redial, etc. Each of these applications allows the user to add, delete, or in some cases, edit entries. However, you as the administrator may not want the user to have that level of functionality. For example, a hotel lobby telephone probably should not allow a user to delete the concierge’s Speed Dial number. Further, for privacy reasons, that same telephone should not allow a Call Log display. You can use the Application Status Flag, APPSTAT, to administer specific application functionality permission levels for one or more telephones.

APPSTAT consists of one number, specifying a certain level of allowed functionality. A Zero (“0”) value is the most limiting setting. Values “2” and “3” allow increasing levels of functionality, and “1” allows the user complete application functionality.

In Table 13, “suppressed” applications are not displayed to the user. Softkey labels, application tabs, etc. that would usually be labeled or displayed to indicate the presence of that application are not labeled or displayed. Options associated with suppressed applications can continue to display unless overridden by appropriate OPSTAT parameter administration. However, displayed options have no effect while the application is suppressed.

In Table 13, “Speed Dial changes are not allowed” means the Speed Dial application displays and the user can make calls as normal. However, any controls that allow the user to change any aspect of the Speed Dial application do not display. This restriction includes the ability to add, delete, or edit any Speed Dial name or number.

In Table 13, “Only one-number Redial is allowed” means the user Option that allows a choice between displaying one, three, or six of the last numbers dialed, depending on the telephone, is suppressed. The Redial buffer stores only one number. The Redial application does not display since the user can redial only one number. This restriction allows a certain measure of privacy once a given user has left the telephone.

Note that you can:

• set APPSTAT to 1, for example, in a staging area,
• administer a given telephone with Speed Dial entries of your choice, like the Concierge Speed Dial button in an earlier example,
• then move the telephone to where it will be used, where you have administered APPSTAT to be, say, 0 (zero).

When the relocated telephone resets, it retains its Speed Dial entries, like Concierge, but does not allow the user to create new entries.

When you set APPSTAT to any valid value other than 1, the telephone does not accept any Speed Dial button label changes that might have been made directly on an FTP backup file. Only the telephone’s existing labels are used. This restriction prevents circumvention of the APPSTAT restrictions.

APPSTAT has no effect on telephones having no user-selectable applications such as the 4602. Also, to “suppress” the WML applications, all you have to do is not administer the appropriate parameters. In essence, these applications are suppressed by default.