Polycom 300 and 310 User Manual

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Polycom VVX 300 and 310 Business Media Phones 
User’s Guide 
Version 5.0.0
 
Polycom, Inc. 
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Blocking Contacts  
Any of your contacts can add you to their buddy list and monitor your status. You can prevent certain 
contacts from monitoring your status by blocking the contact in your Contact Directory.  
To block a contact from viewing your status: 
1  From your Home view, select Directories Contact Directory and select a contact. 
From the contact’s information screen, press Edit
3  From the Edit Contact screen, press Block Buddy > Enable > Save
When enabled, the blocked contact cannot monitor your status and displays in your Blocked List. 
You can view a list of contacts that can monitor your status or you have blocked. 
To view a list of contacts that can monitor your status or you have blocked: 
»  From Home view, select Settings > Features Presence  
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To view contacts that can monitor your status, select Watcher List
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To view contacts that are blocked from monitoring your status, select Blocked List
 
 
Timesaver: How to Quickly Unblock a Contact
 
You can unblock a contact from you Blocked List. From Home view, select Settings > Features > 
Presence > Blocked List. From the Blocked List, select a contact and press Unblock. The contact 
can now monitor your status and displays in your Watcher List. 
 
Monitoring Buddies 
You can monitor your buddies from your Buddy Status list. If a buddy is a favorite, you can also monitor 
the buddy from Lines view.  
Each buddy in your Buddy Status list displays a status icon next to his or her name. The following table 
shows the icons and the status they represent.  
Table 7: Viewing Buddy Status Icons 
Buddy Status  
Icon 
 
Buddy Status  
Icon 
Available 
 
 
Do Not Disturb 
 
Busy 
 
 
Offline 
 
Away  
 
 
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