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Managers and assistants can modify manager preferences from the Manager Configuration window:
Your system administrator configured your Manager Assistant to operate in the shared-line or proxy-line mode. For more information, see Shared-Line and Proxy-Line Modes Overview.
The initial default settings enable managers to use the Manager Assistant without configuring preferences first.
Managers access the Manager Configuration window using a website. You can obtain the URL from your system administrator.
Note | You can configure Manager Assistant on only one device. You can choose the device on the Manager Configuration window. |
Assistants can access the Manager Configuration window from the Assistant Console.
To access the window for a particular manager, right-click anywhere in the row for that manager in the My Managers panel of the Assistant Console and then choose Configure from the popup menu.
To access the window for all of your managers, choose Manager drop-down menu.
from the menu bar. If necessary, choose the manager for whom you want to configure features from theUse this procedure to identify one of a manager’s configured assistants as the default assistant.
When possible, the Manager Assistant assigns the default assistant as the manager’s active assistant. If the default assistant is not logged in, the Manager Assistant assigns another available assistant to serve as the active assistant. After the default assistant logs in, the Manager Assistant switches assistants so that the default assistant is active and handling calls.
Managers can use configure a divert target in these ways:
By initial default, the Divert target is the manager’s active assistant. Managers and assistants can use this procedure to change the target.
Filter lists enable managers or assistants to customize the manager’s call-filtering feature.
By default, filter lists are empty. Add numbers to a filter list to customize it. Choose a filter mode to toggle between Inclusive or Exclusive filter lists. For the list descriptions, refer to Table 1.
Only one filter mode (Inclusive or Exclusive) can be active at any time. Managers can toggle between filter modes from the Manager Assistant menu on their phones. Assistants can toggle between filter modes for a manager from the Assistant Console.
The Manager Assistant compares the caller ID of the incoming call to the phone numbers in the active filter list.
Filter lists can include these wildcards:
Besides wildcards, filter lists can contain hyphens (–), periods (.), and blank spaces.
Filter lists can be empty. By initial default, the filter is enabled and the Inclusive filter list is empty. This means that all of a manager’s incoming calls are redirected to the assistant.
Managers can activate your filter lists from your phone. Open the Manager Assistant menu on your phone. Press 1 to toggle the Filter feature on and off. Press 2 to toggle between Inclusive and Exclusive filter modes.
Managers and assistants can use the following procedure to create filter lists.
If you have both call filtering and Divert All (DivAll) enabled, the Manager Assistant first applies call filtering to an incoming call. Call filtering directs the call to you or to your assistant (depending on filter settings). Next, the Manager Assistant applies DivAll to those calls that filtering has directed to you. The DivAll feature redirects those calls to the DivAll target.
For the call-filtering icons in the Manager Assistant status window, see Table 2 table.
The administrator follows this procedure for updating device/phone information for existing Manager Assistant configuration. The modification to device information happens when you:
Perform these steps in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration