Paging 87Paging Paging lets you activate the speakers and broadcast a message to all ofthe available phones in a paging group. Your administrator defines themembers of a paging group and an extension to dial to page that group.A phone in a group is available to receive pages if it has a speaker, unless:■ the phone is not logged in■ the phone has a call ringing, connected, or on hold■ the phone has Do Not Disturb, Call Forwarding, or Forward toVoicemail enabled.Note that you do not need to be a member of a page group to send apage to that group; you just need to know the extension for that group.A page is subject to the following restrictions:■ You cannot park, transfer, hold, conference, or pick up a page.■ You cannot camp on a page group extension.■ A page cannot be bridged (see Enabling Bridged Extensions forinformation about bridging).If you are sending or receiving a page, you can drop the page by usingthe speaker button to disconnect the page, by picking up and replacingthe receiver, or by pressing the Release button.Paging a Group You can view the page groups, the group extensions, and the membersof those groups by accessing the VCX User Interface (see Accessing theVCX User Interface).To page a group:1 Pick up the handset.2 Dial the appropriate page group extension.When you dial the page group extension, speakers are activated on thetelephones that are members of the group.3 Speak the message you want to broadcast into the handset.4 Hang up when you are finished.
