Do a disp cos and look for the line Restrict Call Fwd-Off Net. You will want to give your station a seperate COS from everyone else so that only you have the ability. Mark the field 'N' and you will be able to forward your phone.
Just be carelful with this setting as you are opening a door for potential fraud. That is why I say only implement this on your phone.
It will only come back to voice mail if you set up 'remote coverage'.
Disp cov remote:
Input outside number in one of the free spaces, remember the space number.
Create a cover path; 'add cover path next'
For the first point of coverage, put r+the number of the space you inserted your outside line in remote coverage, so if you put 9p14035556767p678 in space 10, you should type "r10" in the first point of coverage space.
The second point of coverage should be your voice mail hunt group.
Adjust the rings to 2 or 3, anything more is way too much.
It may be worth noting: You need feature 'coverage of calls redirected offnet' turned on in system-parameters customer-options; if you want call to follow coverage path after it's been directed off-net.
Can this be done along with time of day routing? I want to do something similar and have the ext forwarded to an external number during the day, then come back to the pbx after hours.
Yes, just set up two different coverage paths in your system. One would go to the remote coverage path you create and the other would go to your PBX (voicemail, another ext, etc). Then, do an "add coverage time-of-day 1" and put in the coverage path you want it to start out with. Then enter the time you want it to change and the coverage path you want it to change to. Then, on the station form, enter "t1" in the coverage path field.
Thanks! That makes sense now. I was looking at the system Time-of-day before. I didn't notice the coverage time-of-day. I got it setup and that looks like it will work.
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