I am trying to assign an extension number to a phone without using one of it's buttons. Seems a bit odd to have to program a phone's button with it's own extension number, how often do people call themselves :)

Good point. However, this is also the means of assigning a "line" to the phone in order to make outgoing calls.

Brandon

I understand, so aside from using the "button 1:x" command there is no way to program an ephone so it know what extension it is?

Seems like Cisco should make a "button 0:x" command so people do need to waste one of their programmable buttons.

No, you have to use the "button 1:x" command.

Brandon

I see your point about programing a phone button with it's own extension number, but think of it this way. Your house/apartment/place of residence has an address. How often do you mail stuff to yourself? You don't. Your address is so others can find/mail stuff to you. In the same way your extension assigned to a button is a way for people to call you.

Hope this helps. Please rate if this does.

Yea, but when you buy a house they don't tell you that although it has four walls, you can only use 3, one needs to be reserved for your address...