The Ringing - Abbreviated and Delayed feature has two categories of ringing:

• Ringing that alerts consistently and does not change:

  • Ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing occurs

  • Silent ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing does not occur

• Ringing that transitions from one ringing state to another:

  • Abbreviated ringing, in which ringing continues for the number of cycles that you specify with the automatic abbreviated transition interval or the delayed transition interval, and then changes to silent alerting

  • Delayed ringing, in which visual alerting continues for the number of cycles that you specify with the automatic abbreviated transition interval or the delayed transition interval, and then changes to ringing

When you administer the Station screen of a user, you can assign an abbreviated dial button of that user to another user. The user of the Station screen that you administer must have a telephone with call appearances that have either abbreviated or delayed ringing. When a call alerts at one of those call appearances, the user presses the button. When the user presses the button, the system forces an immediate transition from ringing to silence, or from silence to ringing.

The Ringing - Abbreviated and Delayed feature is most useful in bridging situations in which some users want to:

• Have a call audibly alert as soon as the call arrives

• Be audibly notified if the call is unanswered within a specified number of rings

• Stop the audible alerting if the call is unanswered by the called party, and the user cannot answer the call

You specify the types of ringing on the Station screen of each user in your system. You can assign one of the following ring types to each telephone line button.

• Abbreviated Ring

  A call rings the telephone until the automatic or the manual automatic abbreviated transition or the delayed transition occurs. After the transition, the call silently alerts at the telephone.

• Delayed Ring

  A call silently alerts the telephone until the automatic or the manual abbreviated transition or the delayed transition occurs. After the transition, the call rings at the telephone.

• No Ring

  A call silently alerts the telephone and does not transition.

• Ring

  A call rings at the telephone and does not transition.

When a user presses the abbreviated-ring button on the telephone, the system performs an abbreviated transition or a delayed transition for all calls at the extension. Calls to other extensions that alert at the telephone are unaffected.