User Guide

Advanced Phone Features
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Hot Desking
Hot desking originates from the definition of being the temporary physical occupant of a work
station or surface by a particular employee. A primary motivation for hot desking is cost
reduction. This feature is regularly used in places where not all the employees are in the office at
the same time, or not in the office for very long, which means that actual personal offices would
be often vacant, consuming valuable space and resources.
You can use hot desking on the SIP-T27G IP phone to log out of existing accounts and then log
into a new account. As a result, many users can share the phone resource at different times. To
use this feature, you need to configure a hot desking key in advance.
Note
To configure a hot desking key via phone user interface:
1. Press Menu->Features->DSS Keys.
2. Select the desired DSS key.
3. Press or , or the Switch soft key to select Key Event from the Type field.
4. Press or , or the Switch soft key to select Hot Desking from the Key Type field.
5. (Optional.) Enter the string that will appear on the LCD screen in the Label field.
6. Press the Save soft key to accept the change or the Back soft key to cancel.
Hot desking key is configurable via web user interface at the path Dsskey->Line Key.
To use hot desking:
1. Press the hot desking key when the phone is idle.
Hot desking is not available on all servers. Contact your system administrator for more
information.