Selfcare Portal - Cisco 8800 Series User Manual

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SelfCare Portal

You can customize some phone settings with the Self Care portal web site, which you access from your
computer. The Self Care portal is part of your organization's Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Your administrator gives you the URL to access the Self Care portal, and provides your user ID and password.
In the Self Care portal, you can control features, line settings, and phone services for your phone.
• Phone features include speed dial, do not disturb, and your personal address book.
• Line settings affect a specific phone line (directory number) on your phone. Line settings can include
• Phone services can include special phone features, network data, and web-based information (such as
If you have a Cisco IP Phone 8800 Key Expansion Module connected to your phone, you can also configure
the expansion module buttons for speed dial and other phone services.
The following table describes some specific features that you configure with the Self Care portal. For more
information, see the Self Care portal documentation for your call control system.
Features
Call forward
Additional phones
Speed dial
Related Topics
Phone Calls with Mobile Connect, on page 55
Speed Dial, on page 27
Forward Calls, on page 39
call forwarding, visual and audio message indicators, ring patterns, and other line-specific settings.
stock quotes and movie listings). Use the Self Care Portal to subscribe to a phone service before you
access it on your phone.
Description
Use the number that will receive calls when call forward is enabled on the phone. Use
the Self Care portal to set up more complicated call forward functions, for example,
when your line is busy.
Specify additional phones (your mobile and other phones) that you want to use to make
and receive calls with the same directory numbers as your desk phone. You can also
define blocked and preferred contacts to restrict or allow calls from certain numbers
to be sent to your mobile phone. When you set up additional phones, you can alsoset
up these features:
• Single number reach—Specify whether the additional phone should ring when
someone calls your desk phone.
• Mobile calls—If the additional phone is a mobile phone, you can set it up to
allow you to transfer mobile calls to your desk phone or desk phone calls to your
mobile phone.
Assign phone numbers to speed-dial numbers so that you can quickly call that person.

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