Creating Phonebook Entries
System Extension Entries
System Extension Entries are other Switchvox extensions, from your local Switchvox or peered Switchvoxes. You can add user-type extensions, and other types of extensions such as queues or IVRs.
Phonebook. Select the Phonebook this entry belongs in. To create a new Phonebook, use the New Phonebook tab.
Extensions. Enter at least one extension here. To enter multiple extensions, put a comma (,) after each extension. Click the people icon to see a directory of your Switchvox extensions. Hold down Ctrl to select many extensions, or hold down Shift to select a block of extensions.
Permission-Type.Â
Normal: Shows the user’s Status, and includes a dropdown that lets you open a chat, call additional numbers, or Intercom the person.
Extended: Shows the Normal features, plus the caller ID name and number of the user’s active calls. It also includes options to monitor, record, whisper, barge into, or pick up the user’s calls.
Only local, phone-type extensions can be Extended Permission entries. If you add another type of extension (e.g., a peered Switchvox phone, or a Call Queue), it is added as a Normal entry.
You can change an entry’s permission type at any time.
If you cannot see or use an option in an Extended Entry, your Switchvox administrator has not given you permission to do so.
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External Number Entries
External Number Entries are for names and phone numbers other than Switchvox extensions. Once you add an external entry, you will also be able to put Additional Numbers into that entry.
Make sure to enter this number as you would dial it from your phone. For example, if you must dial 9 for an external number, an external number here must begin with a 9.
Phonebook. Select the Phonebook this entry belongs in. To create a new Phonebook, use the New Phonebook tab.
Number. Enter the phone number.
Name. Enter a name.
Jabber ID. Enter this person’s Jabber ID to display his Jabber presence on your Switchboard in his Phonebook entry.The Jabber ID has a user ID (the extension) and a Jabber Hostname. For example, 101@jabber.peeredswitchvox.com.
Status Indicator Entries
These entries are only available for Digium Phones (or Polycom and snom phones that Switchvox has configured). If you don’t see this type of entry, check with your Switchvox administrator.
A Status Indicator entry controls a line status indicator light on your phone.
Phonebook. Select the Phonebook this entry belongs in. To create a new Phonebook, use the New Phonebook tab.
IMPORTANT: This must be the same Phonebook as the one in the Phone Features Options for this entry to affect your phone. Also, it must be one of the first entries in the Phonebook if you want it to display without having to scroll through the entries on your phone.
Entry Name. Enter a name for this entry. This isn’t required, as you don’t see the entry in your Switchboard.
Monitor Type.
Parking Lot: This lights up the line status indicator on your phone when a caller is waiting in the specified Parking Lot Extension.
Queue Login Status: This lights up the line status indicator on your phone when you are not logged into the specified queue. Enter the Agent Login Extension that you use to log into this queue, and the queue that you want to monitor.