Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Maintenance Manual
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Use the checkboxes to select one or more sources for the phone book.
You can combine as many sources as you want.
15.
Configure the Update Type for each of the sources you want to include. This does not apply to the
Manual List
source type.
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Import to TMS
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Search only: Note that you cannot schedule entries from phone book sources with this type, and that these
sources will be filtered out from the Phone Books tab that appears when adding participants to conferences.
sources will be filtered out from the Phone Books tab that appears when adding participants to conferences.
16.
Click OK.
The phone book has now been created. To make it available to Cisco TMS-controlled systems, you must:
1.
Set up access control, see
2.
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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.
plan the phone book structure out in detail before creating it in Cisco TMS.
To create a phone book inside of another phone book:
1.
In
Phone Books > Manage Phone Books
, open or create the phone book you want to be the top level container for
your hierarchy.
2.
While the top level phone book is open, click New to create a new phone book inside it.
3.
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.
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
.
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.
1.
Go to
Phone Books > Manage Phone Books
and open or create the phone book to which you want to grant users
access.
2.
Open the tab Access Control.
3.
Select TMS User Groups
4.
Specify the access for each group by checking
Read and/or Update.
5.
Click Save.
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