Panasonic DBS 824 Manual De Usuario

Station Hunting

System Features

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DBS 824-3.0/3.2-700

Revised April 2000

(CPC-S and CPC-M)

Station hunting allows calls to be automatically transferred among a 
preselected group of phones.

When a call terminates to a busy extension in a hunt group, the call 
automatically transfers to another extension in the group. If the second 
extension is busy, the call automatically transfers to another member of the 
group.

Three types of hunt groups are available: Terminal, Distributed, and Longest 
Idle. In addition, a software-defined pilot extension number is available. 

The DBS 824 also allow calls from busy hunt groups to overflow to a transfer 
extension. The transfer extension can be the pilot of another hunt group, the 
pilot (0) of the attendant group, or a single extension number.

When the Terminal method is selected, a call to the hunt group will repeatedly 
search hunt group members until the Transfer Timer expires. If none of the 
members is free when the timer expires, the call is transferred to the transfer 
extension.

When the Distributed method is selected, calls are distributed through the 
hunt group based on which extension in the group received a call in the last 
search. The incoming call begins its search at the next available extension in 
the group and then repeatedly searches the group, in sequence, until the 
Transfer Timer expires. If none of the members is free when the timer expires, 
the call is transferred to the transfer extension.

With Longest Idle hunting, a call to the pilot number rings the extension in 
the group that has been available the longest.

As with the other two methods, the search then continues through the Hunt 
Group until the Transfer Timer expires. If a member does not become 
available before the timer expires, the call is transferred to the transfer 
extension.

• FF4 (Ringing and Hunt Groups): Hunt Group Type