Announcement Line on Unity

[Scott Hanson]

All,

I need to configure an anouncement line.  Users will call in, hear the greeting and then get disconnected.  No ability to leave a message.  The greeting needs to be able to be updated by someone calling the same number, pressing # and being able to re-record the greeting.  Is this best accomplished by a Call Handler or a user with a voice mailbox?

Thanks in advance.  All replies rated.                 

[Rob Huffman · Accepted solution]

Hi Scott,

This can be accomplished using either a standard mailbox or

Call Handler using the after greeting Action (goodbye or hangup)

but it will be easier to re-record greetings using a mailbox.

If you want to save a license and use a Call Handler you get

into the whole greeting administrator & call handler owner

set up

Either way you slice it, the user will need to use a PIN to re-record

the greetings, which is really a good thing as you don't want some random person

doing this either maliciously or by accident!

Cheers!

Rob

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[David Hailey]

As Rob said, you can go either way.  Personally, I would use a Call Handler and set the after greeting action to "Hang Up". You would need to set the caller input for # to go to the Greetings Administrator.  If there are multiple users that need to change the greeting and this is legacy Unity, then you can use a Distribution List with all of the users in it as the "Owner". In Unity Connection, you need to set each individual user with the Greetings Administrator role on their mailbox.

Hailey

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