Name
Description
Post announcement
tone
Default = Music on hold.
Following the first announcement, you can select whether the caller should
hear music on hold, ringing, silence until answered, or hear another
announcement.
2nd Announcement
Default = On.
If selected, a second announcement can be played to the caller if they have
still not been answered.
Wait before 2nd
announcement
Default = 20 seconds. Range = 0 to 9999 seconds.
This setting sets the wait between the first and the second announcement. If
Synchronize Calls
is selected, the actual wait may differ.
Repeat last
announcement
Default = On.
If selected, the last announcement played to the caller is repeated until the call
is answered or the caller hangs up.
Wait before repeat
Default = 20 seconds. Range = 0 to 9999 seconds.
If
Repeat last announcement
is selected, this setting is applied between each
repeat of the last announcement. If
Synchronize Calls
is selected, this value
is grayed out and set to match the
Wait before 2nd announcement
setting.
Synchronize calls
Default = Off.
This option can be used to restrict how many voicemail channels are required
to provide the announcements.
Note:
This option is available only when configuring announcements for hunt
groups. It is not available when configuring announcements for users.
•
Off
– Announcements are played individually for each call. This requires a
separate voicemail channel each time an announcement is played to each
caller. While this ensures accurate following of the wait settings selected, it
does not make efficient use of voicemail channels.
•
On
– If a required announcement is already being played to another caller,
subsequent callers wait until the announcement has been completed and can
be restarted. In addition, when a caller has waited for the set wait period and
the announcement is started, any other callers waiting for the same
announcement, hear it even if they have not waited for the wait period. Using
this setting, the maximum number of voicemail channels ever needed is one
or two depending on the number of selected announcements.
Recording announcements using short codes
There are no default queue announcements for user and hunt groups. The maximum length for
announcements is 10 minutes.
User mailbox configuration
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