Administrator’s Guide for SIP-T2 Series/T19(P) E2/T4 Series IP Phones546Remote Phone BookRemote phone book is a centrally maintained phone book, stored on the remote server. Usersonly need the access URL of the remote phone book. The IP phone can establish a connectionwith the remote server and download the phone book, and then display the remote phone bookentries on the phone user interface. IP phones support up to 5 remote phone books and 3000remote phone book entries. Remote phone book is customizable.You can customize the remote phone book for IP phones as required. You can also add multipleremote contacts at a time and/or share remote contacts between IP phones using the suppliedtemplate files (Menu.xml and Department.xml). The Menu.xml file defines departments of aremote phone book. The Department.xml file defines contact lists for a department, which isnested in Menu.xml file. After setup, place the files (Menu.xml and Department.xml) to theprovisioning server, and specify the access URL of the file (Menu.xml) in the configuration files.You can ask the distributor or Yealink FAE for remote XML phone book template. You can alsoobtain the remote XML phone book template online:http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage. For moreinformation on obtaining the remote phone book template, refer to Obtaining BootFiles/Configuration Files/Resource Files on page 131.When creating a Department.xml file, learn the following: indicates the start of a department file and indicates the end of a department file. Create contact lists for a department between and .To customize a Department.xml file:1. Open the template file using an ASCII editor.2. For each contact that you want to add, add the following strings to the file. Each starts on aseparate line:Test123000
