Enabling Bridged Extensions 95Your administrator may allow you to reprogram a button’s function (forexample, create more personal speed dial buttons).To view the functions currently mapped to buttons on your phone:1 Log in to the VCX User Interface, select the My Extensions option, thenaccess the Button Mappings tabbed page.2 Choose your telephone model (for example, the Model 3102 Businessphone) and click Select.CAUTION: The VCX User Interface cannot determine your telephonemodel. You must select the correct model from the drop down list.The VCX User Interface displays a graphic of the selected telephonemodel and shows the function mapped to each button. If a functionname appears dimmed (light gray text), your administrator has lockedthat function-button mapping and you cannot remap it. See the onlinehelp for more information.Enabling BridgedExtensionsThis section describes how to enable and use bridged extensions set upthrough the VCX User Interface.The VCX system allows you to set up your extension so that other userscan receive your calls at their phones. Through the VCX User Interface,you can grant permission to up to five other users to receive callsintended for your extension; that is, you are “bridging” your extension totheir phones.With a bridged line, the VCX User Interface Selective Ringing featureallows you to change the default ring tone to one of 27 ring tones, delaythe ring for a specified number of seconds, or silence the ringer and onlyallow the telephone to flash.The bridged telephone is sometimes referred to as the primary phone.The telephone receiving bridged calls is sometimes referred to as thesecondary phone.A bridged extension is typically used by an administrative assistant (thesecondary phone) to accept calls for one or more managers (primaryphones). Or one manager (primary phone) may be monitored by multipleassistants (secondary phones). The primary telephone and the secondarytelephone (or phones) can be located at different sites.
