Chapter 7: Using bridged call appearances
In addition to your own call appearances, your phone may show one or more bridged call appearances
on the display screen. A bridged call appearance is of another user and allows you to see if that call
appearance is in use, answer calls on that appearance, or join a call in progress on that call appearance
from your deskphone. You can also make outgoing calls on a bridged call appearance when it is not in
use.
Answering a call on a bridged line
About this task
Answering a call on a bridged line is the same as a call on a primary line.
Procedure
1. Select the bridged call that you want to answer.
The ringing line is selected automatically. If you are on another call when a call
comes in to a bridged line, you have to select the ringing line.
2. Press Answer.
Joining a call on a bridged line
Procedure
1. Select the bridged call in progress that you want to join.
2. Press Bridge.
Making an outgoing call on a bridged line
About this task
When you make a call on a bridged line, you are using another telephone user’s line. The caller
ID associated with the call you are making may show the call as coming from you or coming
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