Feature Button Labels 96XX series phones

[skmiller22]

Is there anyway to customize the system feature buttons for bridged appearances, message waiting lights, and intercom buttons?

For example:
Currently the default is
brdg-appr 1 6373 r displays on 96xx phone as 6373
brdg-appr 2 9491 r displays on 96xx phone as 9491
auto-icom 6 08 displays on 96xx phone as AutoIc 6 08
aut-msg-wt 6373 displays on 96xx phone as Msg 6373

I'd like to program CM to use default labels:
brdg-appr 1 6373 r displays on 96xx phone as 6373 JD
brdg-appr 1 9491 r displays on 96xx phone as 9491 AN
auto-icom 6 08 displays on 96xx phone as Intercom JD
aut-msg-wt 6373 displays on 96xx phone as MSG JD

For digital phones Avaya has a button label template that you can preprogram all of your differnt feature buttons for each individual extension and then print out onto card stock. Is there a similar button template for IP based phones?

I understand that individuals have the ability to personalize and change any default button labels on their phone from the default sent through CM. Id have to imagine that there is a way to set the default buttons that are sent from CM.

 

[Mitch672]

not that I know of. Yuo can go around to these phones and label them by hand, from the keypad, that's about it.



Mitch

AVAYA Certified Expert

 

[98Converter]

If you're backing the phones up via HTTP, you can edit the .txt file associated with the phones. (It would be a file called yyyy_96xxdata.txt - the yyyy's being the extension). And then from there, you can restore the file to the phone. I ran through this excersise to label 50+ admin phones with 2 sidecars... It was alot easier than going through the Menu/Personalize Labels feature on the phones.



Thanks,
CJH

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[jimbojimbo]

I agree with using the WebDAV backup server. You can modify or copy the data files as needed to make the button labels read anything you want. Works great if you template the phones to be the same. Also works for Voice Initiated Dialing (VID). I typically create one file for each department on a large system (You are limited to 250 entries in the contacts). You can create one "96xxdata.txt" file as a default. If a phone doesn't already have a file on the server when it boots it should pull this file. The phone will then backup to it's own xxxx_96xxdata.txt file.

Jimbo