An Overview of Your Phone
Cisco Unified IP Phone User Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.6 (SCCP and SIP) 7
Understanding Phone Screen Features
The following figure shows how your main phone screen may look with an active call.
Note The Messages, Directories, and Services screens on your phone may appear in Normal mode
or in Wide mode depending on how your phone has been set up. A phone window in Wide
mode spans the entire width of the phone screen. However, neither you nor your
administrator can adjust the phone screen viewing mode.
1
Primary phone
line
Displays the phone number (directory number) for your primary phone line.
When several feature tabs are open, the phone number and the time and date
display alternately in this area.
2
Programmable
buttons
Serve as phone line buttons, intercom line buttons, speed-dial buttons, phone
service buttons or phone feature buttons. Icons and labels indicate how these
buttons are configured. For an icon reference, see Phone Screen Icons.
3
Softkey labels Displays a softkey function for the corresponding softkey button .
4
Status line Displays audio mode icons, status information, and prompts.
5
Call activity
area
Displays current calls per line, including caller ID, call duration, and call state
for the highlighted line (standard view). See Understanding Lines and Calls,
page 5, and Viewing Multiple Calls, page 9.
6
Phone tab Indicates call activity.
7
Feature tabs Indicate an open feature menu. See Understanding Feature Buttons and Menus,
page 8.
