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VCS754 Administrator and Provisioning Manual
Customizing Soft Keys
The configuration file allows you to select which soft keys can appear on the Idle screen,
the Active Call screen, the Held Call screen and the Live Dial screen. You can also specify
the position of each soft key.
Some soft keys appear only under certain conditions. For example, the Line soft key on the
Idle screen appears only if there is more than one registered SIP account. When a
"conditional" soft key is not visible, the soft key's position is left empty.
Soft key levels with no soft keys will not be shown if there are multiple soft key levels (as
indicated by the  and  icons). Any soft key level where all soft keys are invisible will be
dynamically skipped when the user navigates through the available levels. On the VCS754,
a soft key level consists of three soft keys (populated or blank) in a row.
The table below shows the soft key options available for each screen. Each screen can
have a maximum of nine soft keys.
Custom soft key configuration file settings
The custom soft keys parameters are included in the "softkey" module. For more
information, see “"softkey" Module: Custom Soft Key Settings” on page 128. To modify a
soft key parameter, enter values separated by commas. Soft keys appear on the phone
screen in the same order as the soft key values you enter. For example, the
parameter/value combination of
softkey.idle = line,dir,settings will result in the
Idle screen shown below: