Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Maintenance Manual
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Creating a Phone Book Hierarchy
For ease of distribution and browsing, you may want to create a hierarchy of phone books.
Restructuring hierarchical phone books, once they are created, is not supported. We therefore strongly recommend
to plan the phone book structure out in detail before creating it in Cisco TMS.
to plan the phone book structure out in detail before creating it in Cisco TMS.
To create a phone book inside of another phone book:
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In Phone Books > Manage Phone Books, open or create the phone book you want to be the top level
container for your hierarchy.
container for your hierarchy.
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While the top level phone book is open, click New to create a new phone book inside it.
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Create as many nested phone books inside the top-level phone book as you need, making sure to always
create each new phone book from the appropriate parent in the structure.
create each new phone book from the appropriate parent in the structure.
All levels of the phone book hierarchy may, but do not need to, be connected to one or more phone book sources.
Alternate Way of Generating Phone Book
The procedures described above are the recommended ways of creating phone book sources and phone books in
Cisco TMS. However, it is also possible to generate a phone book using the Cisco TMS Tools application. For more
information, see
Cisco TMS. However, it is also possible to generate a phone book using the Cisco TMS Tools application. For more
information, see
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Granting Access to Phone Books
Only Site Administrators and Video Unit Administrators can set phone book read and update permissions.
Cisco TMS Users
These permissions determine the ability of the selected group of users to read and update contacts and to update the
name of or delete the selected phone book.
name of or delete the selected phone book.
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Go to Phone Books > Manage Phone Books and open or create the phone book to which you want to grant
users access.
users access.
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Open the tab Access Control.
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Select TMS User Groups
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Specify the access for each group by checking Read and/or Update.
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Click Save.
By default, Site Administrators and Video Unit Administrators have all permissions set for all phone books.
Note that permissions for reading the list of phone books in Cisco TMS, creating and deleting phone books, and
granting update on new phone books are all set elsewhere, see
granting update on new phone books are all set elsewhere, see
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Provisioning Users
When Cisco TMSPE is installed, provisioning users can be granted access as follows:
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Go to Phone Books > Manage Phone Books and open or create the phone book to which you want to grant
users access.
users access.
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Open the tab Access Control.
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Select Provisioning Directory Groups.
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Expand the root directory and select the directory groups that are to have access to this phone book.
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