General Features
208 Features Guide
Pickup Dialing (Hot Line)
Description
Allows the extension user to call a pre-determined extension or outside party automatically just
by lifting the handset.
This feature is also known as Hot Line.
If the feature is activated and the extension user goes off-hook, a dial tone is generated for the
waiting time and then dialing starts. During the waiting time, the extension user can make a
call to another party, overriding the Pickup Dialing function.
Conditions
• To utilize this feature, an extension number or an outside telephone number (up to 24 digits)
should be programmed beforehand.
• This feature works only when an extension user goes off-hook from on-hook status directly.
• A rotary dial telephone without the "#" button cannot program this feature. For
programming the phone number, temporarily replace a rotary dial telephone with a touch-
tone telephone which has the "#" button.
• This feature does not work if the extension user goes off-hook to answer an incoming call
or retrieve a call on hold.
• This feature does not work if a message notification is left on the extension.
• For a PT with a PF 12 button, the number stored in the PF12 button is used for Pickup
Dialing.
• Distinctive Dial Tone
When this feature is assigned to the extension, the extension user may hear a distinctive dial
tone (dial tone 2) after going off-hook depending on System Programming <Section 2.8
System Option, "15. Special dial tone after setting feature" in the Programming Guide>.
Programming Guide References
• 2.3 Numbering Plan
– Pickup Dialing Program / Set / Cancel
•2.5SystemTimer
– Pickup Dial Waiting Time
•2.8SystemOption
– Special dial tone after setting feature
• 4.3 Extension Line
–PFKey
– [Pickup Dialing] Mode
– [Pickup Dialing] Dial
Features Guide References
1.7 Dialing Features
• Automatic Station Release
