Ringing Options Feature
Description
Ring Timing Options
Ring Timing options control how soon a telephone rings, or whether it rings
at all when a call arrives. Line buttons on each extension can be programmed
so that calls ring as follows:
- Immediate Ring (factory setting). Rings as soon as a call arrives.
- Delay Ring. Provides a delay before the telephone rings. The length
of the delay depends on the type of button and the coverage arrangement:
- On outside line, SA (including Shared SA), and ICOM buttons programmed
for Delay Ring, the delay is fixed at two rings and cannot be changed.
- System Managers customize coverage delays on an extension-by-extension
basis. The Coverage Delay Interval and Delay Ring Interval system-wide settings
are replaced by these extension timers: Primary Cover Ring Delay and Secondary
Cover Ring Delay (range 1-6 rings, factory setting 2 rings).
- The Group Coverage Ring Delay (range 1-9 rings, factory setting 3 rings)
is set for each sender's extension. When a sender has both Individual and
Group Coverage, the Primary Cover Ring Delay controls the interaction between
the two types of coverage.
- No Ring. Prevents the telephone from ringing at all. However, the
distinctive returning transfer and callback rings, described later in this
section under Distinctive Ringing, do sound.
- Send Ring. An additional Ring Timing option, used at the principal
extension to override Delay Ring programming for any Shared SA buttons. If
a call arrives at the principal extension's SA button and that extension is
busy on another call, the call rings immediately at the SSA buttons programmed
for Delay Ring.
Ring Timing options can be programmed individually for each Personal Line,
prime line, Pool, SA (including Shared SA) or ICOM, and Cover button on an extension.
The extension also can be programmed so that all outside calls on Personal Line,
prime line, and Pool buttons ring uniformly with one of these timing options.
(SA, ICOM, and Cover buttons must always be programmed individually.)
Regardless of the Ring Timing option selected, the green LED next to the line
button with a call flashes immediately when a call arrives.
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- Ring Timing options cannot be programmed for SA Originate Only or
ICOM Originate Only buttons because they do not ordinarily receive calls.
- For more information about coverage ring delays, see Coverage.
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