Outbound ring tone when in an ad-hoc conference

[tac84]

When you set up a conference call by starting with say two internal parties and you go to add an internal or external party that hasn't yet answered (Still hearing the outbound ring back tone), when you connect the three calls, you don't actually hear on the conference line that the outbound call is still being made even though it's still trying to call/connect with the third party.

Is there any setting that can be changed to hear the outbound call being made when in conference instead of that person's line remaining silent until answered?

For context:

-Extn 2600 calls Extn 2601
-Adds an outbound call (via SIP Trunk) to an external third party
-Once it starts 'ringing' the party, all calls are added to an ad-hoc conference
-Extn 2600 and Extn 2601 can talk, but the system is still calling the third party even though you can't hear it unless they answer...can a setting be changed so that you can hear the call being made like you normally could?

IP Office 11.1 FP 2 SP 3
SIP Trunks
Embedded Voicemail
SIP & H.323 extensions on system

Thanks, Tim
Adelaide, Australia

 

[sizbut]

Why would you want to?

People probably complained about not wanting to hear the call connection process in the middle of an existing conference, so Avaya have suppressed it when they can detect call progress based on line type (after all, in some cases all your hearing is a ring tone generated locally by the IP Office whilst it waits for the far end to connect, not really useful or informative to the other conference members). So you are likely in a very small minority of people who want to hear the ringing.

Stuck in a never ending cycle of file copying.