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Pickup Groups

mike
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I have a client that I setup a pickup group for. I have 5 phones with the same group number. If, let's say Joe is on the phone, and has an incoming call, how does Jane see that incoming call and answer it. Right now, it ends up going to Joe's voicemail. They want a live person to be able to answer it.

I have the pickup button softkey created. I also have the side monitoring buttons for each user setup for normal ring.

Thanks

Mike

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Rob Huffman
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Hi Mike,

Let's say Joe's DN is 5555 and the number is on his phone and Jane's Sidecar. You will need

to bump up the Busy trigger setting on 5555 to 2 or more so that the second call does not

Call Forward Busy directly to VM

Cheers!

Rob

Thanks for the reply Rob!

I will get into the system this evening and take a look at that. I thought I already had that setup, but didn't think to check it.

I will let you know how it goes.

Mike

I was able to get in last night and look over settings. However, I can't find anything referencing a timeout for busy. Only for no answer. I tried doing a show call-manager-fallback call-forward-busy and the system tells me that call-manager-fallback is not enabled.

Looking in Unity Express, I can only configure the no answer timeout. If I enable the call-manager-fallback option, how will that affect all users?

Thanks for the help

Mike

Rob Huffman
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Hey Mike,

My BAD! The comments were for CUCM not CME. In you case I'm guessing that

you are using Dual Line DN's, and sadly, that is exactly how "Shared" Dual-Lines work

Can you please try Octo-line DN's I think it would offer the functionality you desire;

Octo-Line

An octo-line directory number supports up to eight active calls, both incoming and outgoing, on a single phone button. Unlike a dual-line directory number, which is shared exclusively among phones (after a call is answered, that phone owns both channels of the dual-line directory number), an octo-line directory number can split its channels among other phones that share the directory number. All phones are allowed to initiate or receive calls on the idle channels of the shared octo-line directory number.

Because octo-line directory numbers do not require a different ephone-dn for each active call, one octo-line directory number can handle multiple calls. Multiple incoming calls to an octo-line directory number ring simultaneously. After a phone answers a call, the ringing stops on that phone and the call-waiting tone plays for the other incoming calls. When phones share an octo-line directory number, incoming calls ring on phones without active calls and these phones can answer any of the ringing calls. Phones with an active call hear the call-waiting tone.

After a phone answers an incoming call, the answering phone is in the connected state. Other phones that share the octo-line directory number are in the remote-in-use state.

After a connected call on an octo-line directory number is put on-hold, any phone that shares this directory number can pick up the held call. If a phone user is in the process of initiating a call transfer or creating a conference, the call is locked and other phones that share the octo-line directory number cannot steal the call.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmebasic.html#wpxref93951

Cheers!

Rob

Thanks for the info Rob!

And don't worry, it wasn't your bad. I should have specified what system I was using in my first post.

You are correct that the phones are currently setup and dual-line. To change to octo-line, is there anything special other than just changing the code for the ephone-dn # from dual-line to octo-line?

I have a test phone I can play with. Browsing over the doc you listed above, it looks like that is how I will need to setup.

Mike

Rob Huffman
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Hey Mike,

No, it isn't a major change. Try your lab phone first and you will be good to go

Cheers!

Rob