how extensions share one phone 1

[diodio]

I reached the limit of the ports on my TDA100 and I have users who need extensions. I want them to share phones. the process is when they come, they log on using an extension number and PIN. if they leave, they disconnect.
do I create virtual extensions or portable? if so how do I

 

[LkEErie]

Without the memory expansion card, you're limited to 64 addresses. However, you may be able to add ICD numbers to buttons on phones. By default 6xx numbers are assigned to ICD groups. Then, assigning the ICD group to a button on a phone, on the fly, would give you a second extension on that phone.

Note the answer doesn't really change from the other forum where you asked the question

LkEErie

 

[diodio]

thanks for your reply.
I was not rather clear in my comments. I have created the extension but I don't want to connect phones. I have two phones connected and I want users to share these phones during their office hour for each. when a user comes, he put his extension number and pin, he can make and receive calls. when he leaves, the phone must be locked until another user comes

 

[LkEErie]

You were perfectly clear and I told you how you could do it. It involves assigning a button to an ICD group and logging that phone into and out of the group. It's a parlor trick, because you would have to log everybody out of ICD group to keep the phones you assigned to ring in the members to not ring. It's not elegant, but neither is your proposed use of the system. This is pretty much the way an end user can control extension appearance on the fly without having full access to system programming.

On my system, I assigned 604 to ring extensions 102-105. At each phone, I set a button to ICD 604, then logged out those 3 phones from all ICD groups (*7360#). Then I logged in one extension to ICD 4 (*7361604). When you dial 604 from anywhere, the button assigned to ICD-604 lights green and the phone rings. However, if that phone is busy, there's no ring at all and the caller gets a busy.

It's a start....

LkEErie

 

[dalavar01]

How about using walking COS instead?

 

[LkEErie]

WCOS works for outbound calls, PDN works for incoming, but the setup of PDN takes a lot of buttons and is just as cumbersome.
I'm not sure a PDN setup is allowable in the software limitations. The 100 is pretty close to maxed out as it is.

 

[cwc3]

If you were looking for true "hot desking" you should have done a nortel.

 

[obtsystems]

setup portable extensions and use walking extensions to change to the ps extensions and then return to a unused ext when going out

 

[obtsystems]

sorry, can't use ps, you can use dxdp extensions that are not in use

 

[LkEErie]

Ken, through all of this, in both forums, apparently the OP has maxed out a TDA-100. The MEM expansion card is discontinued, and I don't remember if it was discussed or not, but the 100 is limited to 64 addresses without and he somehow already has 40 digital phones on the box At least that's what I get from the docummentation.

I am lead to believe that you can have 3 digital extension cards but not have 96 phones on those ports without the expanded memory.
I'm guessing that 48 phones and 16 trunks causes a problem.....

Who would have thunk?

LkEErie

 

[obtsystems]

LkEErie, I see where you are coming from, but say if I had maxed out my extension ports (64 physical handsets allowed to work) and I have dxdp ports unused and assign numbers to them. they wont come live. but if I do a walking extension *727- ext- pin that port becomes the new extension, but same amount of ports in use. I don't have a maxed out system to try this, would like to know if it would work though.

 

[cwc3]

remove and replace with 100 TDE MPR . Wouldn't you be able use ip ports as virtual exts as well ?

 

[LkEErie]

Ken, I think you got it! Let's email the OP and ask him to try it.