Lucent Technologies 107970212 User Manual

Communications System Planning Forms

The following table shows what procedures should be used and to which
communications systems forms they correspond in planning for voice mail
system installation and programming:

Assign the extensions associated with the VMS

Hunt Group

hardware to Hunt Group 7.

Extensions (#505)

Assign lines to Hunt Group 7 so calls can ring

Group Call

directly to the VMS and receive Automated

Distribution (#206)

Attendant Service.

Identify an extension as an owner of an outside

Line Coverage

line so calls on that line can ring directly to the

Extension (#208)

owner’s voice mailbox when Automatic VMS Cover
or VMS Cover is on at owner’s ext.

Determine when outside calls should be answered

VMS Hunt Delay

by the Automated Attendant Service of the VMS

(#506)

(i.e., immediate or delayed call handling).

Determine when outside calls should ring the VMS

VMS Hunt Schedule

Hunt Group (always, day only, or night only)

(#507)

depending on the status of the Night Service
Button at ext. 10.

Determine whether an extension’s unanswered

Automatic VMS

intercom and transferred calls and outside calls on

Cover (#310)

lines assigned ownership are automatically
covered by the VMS.

Specify the number of times intercom and

VMS Cover Rings

transferred calls or outside calls on lines assigned

(#117)

ownership ring at extensions before they are sent
to the VMS.

Identify the extension to which a call transferred by Transfer Return

the VMS should be routed if the destination

Extension (#306)

extension does not answer and does not have
voice mail coverage active. (The transfer return
extension for the VMS is typically ext. 10).