Group Pick Up

[m-hennigan]

Running Call Manager 3.3.3sr3 is there any way to do a Group pick up with out assigning a users phone to a pick up group?

My issue is I have a customer with an emergency number which rings after hours and rings a night bell. This connects to an ATA, which I wanted to put into a Pick Up group. I did not want to have to assign each phone (all 400) to a pick up group just to use this feature. I thought it could be utilitzed with out assigning all the phones to the a group?

[jbond_c24]

You can also create a shared line appearance. The ATA and the phones would have a shared dn. When an incoming call comes in they all ring out.

[m-hennigan]

We are talking potentially hundreds of phones that COULD pick up the phone.

[jbond_c24]

Using the bat you can update hundreds of phones with a shared line in about a minute.

[kevin.thompson]

This might be killing a fly with a shotgun, and it might be that I'm not understanding your problem correctly...I'm just trying to think outside the box.

Have you looked into using extension mobility to solve the problem? I think that if you created a profile that had a shared line appearance with the emergency phone, then when the bell went off someone could log in to their phone with a well known profile and now have the ability to answer that phone. This is actually much more configuration per phone than using a Call Pickup Group would be...the only advantage I see is that if you needed to put some phones in a Call Pickup group for some other reason, you would still have that as an option.

Let me know if I'm way off base with that idea.