Group Conference
- Ensure that your login mode is account login and has been assigned the instant conference rights.
- Ensure that on the phone web page, you have enabled conference right and the instant conference rights and set the conference type to Instant conference.
- For any questions, contact your system administrator.
You can perform the following operations to create a group conference:
- Press the Contacts button.
The Contacts screen is displayed.
- Press the Right arrow button to switch to the Groups screen.
- Select a group and press Conf.
The Participant List screen is displayed.
- Adding participants: Press Add.
- Deleting participants: Select a participant to delete, press More to navigate to Delete and press Delete.
- Press Done.
The conference screen is displayed, on which you can see the security conference ID.
- A security conference ID is a string of 20 characters, which is used for operations such as conference merging. Each conference has a security conference ID on the server. The security conference ID is displayed only on the conference initiator's conference screen.
- In the IMS+UC network environment, an IP phone supports a maximum of six group conferences, with each conference allowing a maximum of 20 participants. If there are more than 20 contacts in the participant list, only the first 20 contacts (including yourself) can join the conference.
- In the EC6.X or UC2.X network environment, an IP phone supports one group conference, you can add a maximum of 10 participants at a time. In total, you can add 20 participants (including yourself).
- Select a participant, and press Other Tel to change the invitation number.
After you create a group conference, you can perform operations described in the following table.
During a conference, a conference participant can perform only the following operations: placing the conference on hold, viewing participant details, muting himself/herself, and leaving the conference.
If You Want to... |
Then... |
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Add a participant |
NOTE:
Select a participant, and press Other Tel to change the invitation number. |
Mute a participant |
NOTE:
You can press Unmute to unmute the participant. |
Mute yourself |
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Remove a participant |
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Exit actively |
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Merge conferences |
NOTE:
After the conference merging, the conference initiator (who has performed the merge operation) can perform conference control operations on the conference participants; for the merged conference (for example, Conference 1), this conference initiator can only perform the conference split operation. |
Split a conference |
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Place a conference on hold |
NOTE:
The hold operation does not take effect on the merged conference (for example, Conference 1).
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End a conference |
NOTE:
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