Instruction manual
Features
Considerations and Constraints
In a Release 2.0 (or later) system, when a Coverage receiver calls a Coverage
sender the call can be sent to Coverage. If a receiver calls a sender for whom
he or she is covering and the sender is busy or unavailable, the call proceeds to
other points of Coverage. It does not come back to the receiver who originated
the call. In a Release 1.0 or Release 1.1 system, a call from a receiver to a
sender is not sent to Coverage.
A maximum of eight Primary Cover and Secondary Cover buttons can be
assigned to provide Individual Coverage for a given sender. Only one Cover
button can be programmed on a multiline telephone for a given receiver.
A maximum of eight Group Cover buttons can be assigned to provide Group
Coverage for each Coverage Group. All eight can be programmed on one
multiline telephone, or the Group Cover buttons can be distributed among up
to eight multiline telephones.
A receiver with a multiline telephone can have a maximum of eight Cover
buttons, which can be programmed for any combination of Group and
Individual Coverage.
If a receiver has both a Primary Cover or Secondary Cover button for a
sender and a Group Cover button for the group of which the sender is a
member, a call for the sender rings only at the receiver’s Primary Cover or
Secondary Cover button. This prevents multiple deliveries of the same call to
the same receiver.
Each Coverage Group can have from no members to the number of extensions
in the system.
Each sender can be a member of only one Coverage Group.
If a sender is a member of a Coverage Group and no receivers are assigned for
the group, if the sender is unavailable (and does not have Individual Coverage),
the caller hears ringback, not a busy tone.
If a Calling Group is assigned as a receiver for a Coverage Group, it is the only
receiver for that group; no other types of Group Coverage receivers can be
programmed. However, individual members of the Coverage Group can be
senders to Individual Coverage receivers.
Only one Calling Group can be assigned as a receiver for a given Coverage
Group.
A Calling Group can be a receiver for up to 30 Coverage Groups.
A receiver with a Group Cover button can also be a member of the Coverage
Group for which the button is programmed Calls to that receiver are sent to all
other receivers programmed for the group.
A Calling Group cannot be a Coverage sender, but individual members of a
Calling Group can be senders.
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