User guide

Create new BAT phone template
You can create new BAT phone templates. After you create a phone template, you can add lines, services,
and speed dials.
Procedure
Step 1
Choose Bulk Administration > Phones > Phone Template.
The Find and List Phone Templates window displays.
Step 2
Click Add New. The Add a New Phone Template window displays.
Step 3
From the Phone Type drop-down list box, choose the phone model for which you are creating the template.
Click Next.
Step 4
From the Select the Device Protocol drop-down list box, choose the device protocol. Click Next.
The Phone Template Configuration window displays with fields and default entries for the chosen device
type.
Step 5
In the Template Name field, enter a name for the template.
The name can contain up to 50 alphanumeric characters.
Example:
Sales_7975
Step 6
In the Device Information area, enter the phone settings that this batch has in common.
See Table 1: Field descriptions for a phone template, on page 33 for more information. Some phone models
and device types do not have all the attributes that the table lists.
Step 7
After you have entered all the settings for this BAT phone template, click Save.
When the status indicates that the transaction has completed, you can add line attributes.
Add or update phone lines in BAT template
You can add one or more lines to the BAT template or to update existing lines. The button template in use
for the BAT template determines the number of lines that you can add or update. You can create a master
phone template that has multiple lines. Then, you can use the master template to add phones with a single line
or up to the number of lines in the master template. All phones or user device profiles in this batch will use
the settings that you choose.
Cisco recommends that you use alphanumeric characters for the line template value, so if numbers are given,
a chance exists of this conflicting with an actual directory number. This would also avoid conflicts with
features such as Call Pickup group number and Call Park number.
The maximum number of lines that display for a BAT template depends on the model and button template
that you chose when you created the BAT phone template. For some Cisco Unified IP Phone models, you
can also add Cisco Unified IP Phone services and speed dials to the template.
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