3Com 3500 - Enabling Bridged Extensions

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Your administrator may allow you to reprogram a button’s function (for example, create
more personal speed dial buttons).
To view the functions currently mapped to buttons on your phone:
1 Log in to the VCX User Interface, select the My Extensions option, then access the
Button Mappings tabbed page.
2 Choose your telephone model (for example, the Model 3102 Business phone) and click
Select.
CAUTION: The VCX User Interface cannot determine your telephone model. You
must select the correct model from the drop down list.
The VCX User Interface displays a graphic of the selected telephone model and shows
the function mapped to each button. If a function name appears dimmed (light gray text),
your administrator has locked that function-button mapping and you cannot remap it.
See the online help for more information.
Enabling Bridged Extensions
This section describes how to enable and use bridged extensions set up through the
VCX User Interface.
The VCX system allows you to set up your extension so that other users can receive
your calls at their phones. Through the VCX User Interface, you can grant permission to
up to five other users to receive calls intended for your extension; that is, you are
“bridging” your extension to their phones.
With a bridged line, the VCX User Interface Selective Ringing feature allows you to
change the default ring tone to one of 27 ring tones, delay the ring for a specified
number of seconds, or silence the ringer and only allow the telephone to flash.
The bridged telephone is sometimes referred to as the primary phone. The telephone
receiving bridged calls is sometimes referred to as the secondary phone.
A bridged extension is typically used by an administrative assistant (the secondary
phone) to accept calls for one or more managers (primary phones). Or one manager
(primary phone) may be monitored by multiple assistants (secondary phones). The
primary telephone and the secondary telephone (or phones) can be located at different
sites.
Bridging an extension requires three steps:
1 On the telephone whose extension you want to bridge (for example, extension 1000):
a Log in to the VCX User Interface, select the My Extensions option, then access the
Bridge Permissions tabbed page.
b Specify the extension (for example, extension 1001) that you want to receive a
bridged call and click Add.
The bridged telephone can identify up to five telephone numbers to bridge with, but
the number of extensions it can actually bridge is determined by the maximum number
of contacts that the system administrator has set up for the phone, which may be
fewer than four.