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Remote answering phones in a hunt group...

Posted by IVSCOMM on Thu, 06/03/2010

If I am a person that is not in a hunt group (ie. a group of three people who are the "operators" for a company)
The people in the hunt group are all away from their desk.
I have been tasked with answering the phones until they return.
A call comes in and rings the group.
I try to answer with *8# but it doesn't work (assume I am tenant within the 60 some range) so I try a directed pickup for a specific extension and it doesn't work.

I think these don't work because technically the individual extension is not ringing only the hunt group is.

Is there a feature code that can pickup a ringing call from a hunt group?


Submitted by eeman on Thu, 06/03/2010 Permalink

what you are looking for is the ability to assign a PICKUPMARK to that ring group. so that you can use directed call pickup. When you call an extension it sets

exten => s,n,Set(__PICKUPMARK=${MACRO_EXTEN}${TL_DASH}${tenant})

in the macro. Use the custom command in hunt list to set one like

Set(__PICKUPMARK=400-tenantname)

assuming 400 is the feature extension # for that huntlist. That should get your call pickup working on huntlist distributed calls.

Submitted by thirdlane on Thu, 06/03/2010 Permalink

I am thinking about adding something like that to the IVR too. Your thoughts?