AT&T IP Flexible Reach Customer Portal: Enterprise Administrator Support

Simultaneous Ring

The Simultaneous Ring feature enables a user to set up to 10 phone numbers to ring simultaneously when any calls are received on the AT&T IP Flexible Reach phone number. The first phone call answered is connected.

Note: A user can't use Simultaneous Ring and Sequential Ring at the same time. If both features are set to Enabled, Sequential Ring takes precedence. (If enabled, the Intercept Announcement feature takes precedence over all other active features and criteria. For details, see Intercept Announcement.)

Add or Edit Simultaneous Ring Criteria

With Simultaneous Ring, you must add criteria before the feature can be used.

To add or edit Simultaneous Ring criteria

From any page in the AT&T IP Flexible Reach Customer Portal, click USER MANAGEMENT in the main menu bar. The Users List page appears.
From the Users List page, click a user's name to open the User Details page.
On the Inbound Features tab of the User Details page, make sure that the feature availability is set to Yes.

For instructions on how to set availability, see About Inbound Call Features.

Caution: If you give a user access to a particular feature, remove that user's access to the feature, and then restore the user's access, all settings created through the edit process, including saved criteria, will be lost.
Click Simultaneous Ring. The Simultaneous Ring page appears.
To add new criteria, click Add Criteria. The Add Simultaneous Ring Criteria page appears.

Note: To edit an existing item, at the right of Simultaneous Ring, click the Edit icon . The Edit Simultaneous Ring Criteria page appears.
In the Description field, enter or edit the criteria name, and then set Status to Active. To use the feature, at least one criterion must be active. To set up criteria to be used at some other time, set the status to Inactive.
At the right of Current Schedule, select one of these options:
- To use the default schedule (Every Day All Day), select Default Schedule.
- To choose a custom schedule, select Custom Schedule, then click Find Schedule. The Select Schedule window appears.
  - Search or browse for the schedule you want. To select the schedule, click the Select radio button in the first column and click Select. That schedule is now selected.
Set Ring on call(s) from. Select one of these two choices:
- Any Phone Number—Calls from anyone will ring the specified phone numbers simultaneously.
- Following Phone Numbers—Specifies whose calls ring the specified phone numbers simultaneously.
  
  You can specify a phone number by selecting one or more of these settings: Any Anonymous Number, Any Unavailable Number, Specific Number(s).
  
  If you select Specific Number(s), enter a phone number in the Phone Number field.
  - To enter the first phone number, click Add a Number.
  - To add each subsequent number, click Add a Number again.
  Add the phone numbers you want to ring simultaneously and select an Answer confirmation required setting. If Answer confirmation required is Yes, the user at that phone number will be prompted to enter a single-digit code to accept each Simultaneous Ring call.
  
  You can add up to 12 phone numbers.
  
  Numbers can be up to 20 digits long, and no phone number format validation is enforced. You must enter public numbers in the North American Numbering Plan as 10 digits without a domestic prefix or country code.
  
  International number entries are allowed and must start with + or 011.
  
  You can't block numbers from within your enterprise from reaching this user.
  
  Extensions are not allowed.
  
  Wildcard characters are allowed:
  - An asterisk (*) matches any sequence of digits. An asterisk can be used only at the end of a number entry and can't be used to replace the entire number. For example:
    - 732*
    - 8*
  - A question mark (?) matches any single digit anywhere within a Specific Number entry. It can even replace the first digit of the number. For example:
    - ?52*
    - 73232049??
When you've finished adding numbers, click Add. A message confirms the change.

You can now edit the criteria you've just created or add more criteria.
To create exceptions to the rules you've created, click Add Criteria at the upper-right of the Regardless of above settings never use Simultaneous Ring for calls matching section. The Add Simultaneous Ring Criteria page appears.
Repeat steps 5 and 6.

Note: If you've entered the same phone number in For Calls Matching and Regardless of above settings never use Simultaneous Ring for calls matching, the For Calls Matching setting takes precedence, and calls from that number will be accepted.

Set Simultaneous Ring

After you've set Simultaneous Ring criteria, you're ready to set the feature.

To set Simultaneous Ring

On the Features tab of the User Details page, in the Action column at the right of Simultaneous Ring, click the Edit icon . The Simultaneous Ring page appears.
To set criteria, in the For Calls Matching section, under Active, verify that at least one checkbox is checked next to the criteria that you want.
In the Add Numbers to be called simultaneously section, under Answer confirmation required, specify whether users must confirm when they answer.
- Yes means an actual person must answer the phone to end Simultaneous ring.
- No means voicemail can answer and end the simultaneous ring.
In the Regardless of above settings never use Simultaneous Ring for calls matching section, under Active, check the checkbox next to the setting you want. (Optional.)
Click Save. A message confirms the change.

Note: Checkboxes are available only when the page is in Edit mode.