OnSIP Tips from the SIP Maven: External Numbers

Managing External Number Resources

By adding cell phone and international office numbers to OnSIP you increase the usefulness of your PBX. Calls can be routed to a cell phone rather than to voicemail so you never need miss a call. You can also set up alias extensions to dial out to external numbers. This makes getting in touch with colleagues who are out of the office as easy as dialing an extension. Make things easy by assigning cell phones extensions to be one order higher than regular extensions; my work extension is 7008 while my cell phone extension is 8008.

When you add a new external phone number resource we list that number in appropriate pull-down menus so as to make it available as a new extension destination. However, by default, we just list the the phone number. Have a look at this screen shot listing 13 external phone numbers.

Unless you are really good at remembering peoples numbers you are going to have a hard time matching cell phones to users. By clicking on each number and then selecting modify you can edit each number and give it a meaningful name.

Then save.

If you do this for all your numbers you can easily assign a cell phone or other external number to correct user or extension.

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