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Call Features

Find out how to utilize the latest call features while on the go, at home, or in the office.
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Introduction

You can call anyone with a phone number or answer calls from anyone calling your work number. When you make these types of calls, it's just like making a regular phone call from any other phone. Additionally, you have several in-call features you can utilize like hold, transfer, conference, and more.

<span id="topic-1" style="padding-top:40px;">Place a Voice or Video Call</span>

To make a call using the dial pad:

  1. 1. Click on the Calling icon.
  2. 2. Enter a phone number in the dialpad.
  1. 3. Choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call.

Note: Webex enables you to sync the application with your desk phone, mobile phone, tablet, and other devices to enhance the unified communications experience.

You can also place a voice or video call by hovering over a previously made call on the Calling page, or in the Missed Calls tab.

To make a call using the Contacts tab:

  1. 1. Click on the Contacts Icon.
  2. 2. Locate the contact you would like to call.
  3. 3. Hover over the contact or click on it and choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call.

To make a call using the Messaging tab:

  1. 1. Click on the Messaging icon.
  2. 2. Select the person you would like to call.
  3. 3. Choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call in the upper right corner of the window.

To make a call using the Voicemail tab:

  1. 1. Click on the Voicemail icon.
  2. 2. Select an existing voicemail from the person you would like to call. 
  3. 3. Choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call.

<span id="topic-2" style="padding-top:40px;">Put a Call on Hold</span>

  1. 1. While on a phone call, select More.
  2. 2. Select Hold
  3. 3. After you put the call on hold, your spaces list shows that it's on hold.

To go back to your held call:

  1. 1. Select it from the spaces list.
  2. 2. Select Resume.

<span id="topic-3" style="padding-top:40px;">Make a Conference Call</span>

To initiate a Conference Call from an active call:

  1. 1. Select More.
  2. 2. Select Conference.
  3. 3. Enter a phone number or type the name of the recipient,
  4. 4. Proceed to choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call.
  5. 5. Select Merge to join the two phone calls.

<span id="topic-4" style="padding-top:40px;">Transfer a Call</span>

If you are on an active call, you can perform a semi-attended or an attended transfer to another contact within the Company Directory or any other number you dial via the Keypad.

  1. 1. While you're on a phone call, select More.
  2. 2. Select Transfer.
  3. 3. Enter the number or the name of the person to whom you want to transfer the phone call. 
  4. 4. Choose whether you want to make it an Audio or Video call. Your original phone call is put on hold.
  5. 5. You can let the other person know why you're transferring the call to them by announcing the call upon answering and then hitting the Complete Transfer button.

or

  1. 6. You can complete a semi-attended transfer by hitting the Complete Transfer button as soon as it starts ringing.

<span id="topic-5" style="padding-top:40px;">Listen to Voicemail</span>

When you have a voice message waiting for you, you'll see a red badge counter (Message Waiting Indicator) next to your voicemail icon. After you listen to your messages (from the app or your desk phone), the badge counter disappears. You can also call your voicemail number to set up greetings, send voice messages, and more.

To listen to voicemail messages:

  1. 1. Go to Voicemail.
  2. 2. Choose a message and then listen to the message by right-clicking and choosing Play voice message, or by selecting the Play icon.
  1. 3. From the Voicemail tab, you can call someone back, delete the message, or mark it as unread.

<span id="topic-6" style="padding-top:40px;">Pick Up a Co-worker’s Call (Call Pickup and Busy Lamp Field)</span>

As a member of a call pickup group or a monitored busy lamp field (BLF) group, you can answer calls when another member of your team is busy. When a member of the group is getting a call, you get an audio and visual indicator on Webex.

This feature is especially useful in situations when you’re working remotely or in different locations, and need to help answer calls or cover someone else’s phone.

Note: Depending on your settings and the group assignments, you may see different options or notifications for performing these steps.

Call pickup

  1. 1. When you hear a phone call come into a coworker's desk phone, click Call Pickup in the footer of your app. 
  2. 2. Select Pick up to pick up a group call. Or, to pick up a call at a specific number, under Directed Pickup, enter the pickup number and then press Enter.

Busy Lamp Field (BLF)

  1. 1. You get a call notification in Webex that a coworker has an incoming call.
  2. 2. Check the person's status on their profile picture. If they're busy or unavailable, click Pick up to answer their call or Ignore to ignore the call.

Manage your incoming call notifications

You can manage when you receive incoming call notifications and call pickup notifications. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Click your profile picture or initials.
  2. 2. Select Settings.
  3. 3. Select Notifications
  4. 4. Under Calls you can modify your incoming call notifications and your Call Pickup notifications. Make your selections.
  5. 5. Select Save to save your changes.

<span id="topic-7" style="padding-top:40px;">Pull a Call (Call Pull)</span>

With Call Pull, you can pull active calls from your desk phone to your Webex app, or vice versa. You can also move an active call from your desktop app to your mobile app. This feature is helpful when switching between devices, while on the go, at home, or in the office. 

Pull a call from your desk phone to your Webex desktop app:

  1. 1. While on an active call on your desk phone, go to the Webex app on your desktop.
  2. 2. Click Calls.
  3. 3. Click Call Pull. The call is moved from your desk phone to your Webex desktop app.

Pull a call from your Webex app to your desk phone:

  1. 1. While on an active call on your Webex app, go to your desk phone.
  2. 2. Pick up the handset.
  3. 3. Press *11. The call is moved from your Webex app to your desk phone.

Pull a call from your Webex desktop app to your Webex mobile app:

  1. 1. While on an active call on your Webex desktop app, open the Webex app on your mobile device.
  2. 2. Go to Calling.
  3. 3. Tap the Phone + icon.
  4. 4. Tap Pull Call. The call is moved from your Webex desktop app to your Webex mobile app.

<span id="topic-8" style="padding-top:40px;">Manage Your Call Queue Status</span>

If you’re assigned to a call queue(s), you can join or unjoin a call queue and change your queue status right from the footer of your Webex app.

  1. From the footer of your app, select Queues to see all of the call queues you're part of.
  2. From the Agent status drop-down menu, select your automatic call distribution status for your call queues:
  •     ○ Signed In—You've signed in, but you're not ready to receive calls.
  •     ○ Signed Out—You're signed out and will not receive calls.
  •     ○ Available—You're ready to receive calls.
  •     ○ Unavailable—You're not available to receive calls.
  •     ○ Wrapping Up—You're near the end of your shift but you can still receive calls.
  1. Join or unjoin a queue by checking or unchecking the checkbox next to the queue.

Note: Your supervisor determines which queues you can join or unjoin. If a queue is grayed out, you can't make a change to that queue.

<span id="topic-9" style="padding-top:40px;">Get Work Calls to Any Number (Single Number Reach)</span>

With the Single Number Reach (Office Anywhere or CCI Anywhere) feature, you can have your work calls ring any phone number so that you don’t have to worry about missing an important phone call because you stepped away from your desk.

  1. 1. To enable or disable the Single Number Reach feature, go to Call Settings in the footer.
  2. 2. Under Single Number Reach, check the box next to the phone number you would like to enable the feature for.

<span id="topic-10" style="padding-top:40px;">Park and Retrieve Calls</span>

With the call park feature, you can transfer calls through the use of call park groups. A call park group is a group of users who can park calls against phone lines. Call park groups are set by your administrator. Call park is similar to placing a call on hold, except that a parked call can be retrieved from any other phone.

If you’re a member of a call park group, you can park an active call on Webex. When you park a call, the call gets assigned a parked number. You can then use that parked number to retrieve the call from another device, or share the number for someone else to retrieve the call from their device.

To park a call:

  1. 1. While on a phone call, select More.
  1. 2. Select Group Park. The call is placed on hold and the extension of where the call is parked is displayed.
Note: If you parked a call by accident, you can retrieve it by selecting the green Retrieve button at the bottom of your call window. This call window is only available for 10 seconds.
  1. 3. Take note of the extension to use yourself or to share with the person who needs to retrieve the call.

To retrieve a call:

  1. 1. Select the Retrieve Call option from the footer of your app.
  1. 2. Enter the extension of the call you’d like to retrieve.
Note: If you park a call and it isn’t retrieved within a certain amount of time (time limit determined by your administrator), the call gets returned to the person who parked the call.
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