User guide
 System Administrator’s Guide – Release 7.5 
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Revised: April 9, 2013 
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the phone. The mapping of the Personal Speed Dial Numbers 
defined in the handset to the PFK is as follows. The uppermost 
Personal Speed Dial PFK is associated to the lowest Speed Dial 
entry number on the handset. 
•  Redial – Redials the last dialed number. Unless the Line 
Appearance(s) Use of Dial Plan phone option is enabled, only 
Call Appearance-dialed calls can be redialed. 
Hot Desk  Enables users to log into shared phones, receive their calls on that 
phone, and place calls with their caller ID. Users can initiate the login 
using a Hot Desk PFK or by selecting the Hot Desk Login option 
from the phone’s Config menu. 
Use the Hot Desk PFK for logging into the phone that has the PFK. 
The PFK is normally solid red but goes off when a user logs in. 
Users can still log into phones that do not have the PFK using the 
phones Config menu. 
Note: The configured PFKs for phones do not change when a new 
user logs in. The Hot Desk PFK and all other PFKs remain as 
originally configured for the phone 
Line Appearance  Monitors the status of an outside line, answers incoming calls on that 
line, and selects the line for outbound calls. When setting up this 
function for this PFK, the user specifies the line. 
To enable outside lines available for selection: 
•  Navigate to Phone System > Outside Lines and go to the 
Analog (CO) Lines section. 
•  Select the Analog (CO) Line, and click Modify.  
•  Go to the Outside Line section, and check the Enable Line 
Appearance check box. 
•  Click Update to return to the Outside Lines page. 
Unique Allworx Functionality: Allworx has enhanced key-system 
capabilities relative to SIP devices and Digital Lines. Any SIP proxy, 
SIP gateway, or Digital Line (T1) bearer channel can be made 
available as Line Appearance selections when they are enabled on 
their respective configuration pages. Through this manner, the 
Allworx system can present a common key system use model to all 
external voice circuit facilities including VoIP trunks going to an ITSP 
Messages  Automatically monitors the status of the designated user’s Message 
Center voicemail inbox and when pressed, automatically accesses 
the inbox. The PFK LED turns red when there is a new message in 
the monitored inbox. Specify the user whose inbox is to be 
monitored when setting up the PFK. 
Not Used  No action. Select this choice to disable a previously defined PFK. 
Parking Orbit  Assign to any of the first nine Parking Orbits. The PFK lights if a 
parking call in orbit. Pressing the PFK retrieves the parked call in 
that orbit. Do not use the Parking Orbit PFKs to pick up parked calls 
in Parking Orbits beyond the first nine. Parking Orbit PFKs do not 
function if the server is part of a Multi-site network and configured to 
enable other sites to retrieve its parked calls. See Chapter 28, 
Parking Orbits, for more information. 










