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What is a channel group?

Channel groups are containers of channels - as the name suggests - and they normally A channel group is a container of individual channels and is normally named to reflect the type of line coming into your organisation and their groupings, e.g. ISDN 30channel it contains, such as ISDN30, ISDN2, Analogue Fax lines , etc.

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The Discovered Channels folder

A special user channel group, Discovered Channels, is automatically created in TIM Plus to harvest hitherto-unknown channel information from the call data received from your telephone system. Over time, when all possible channels have been collected by the Discovered Channels folder, you can create your own channel groups based on the structure of your organisation, and move users channels into these new groups.

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A new window will appear, allowing you to enter the group's name and any the its associated trunk 's access code (TAC), if applicable.

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Click on the Add button to add the new group to the Directory.

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If you are synchronising with a third party system, e.g. use synchronisation, such as Cisco AXL, you need not manually configure channel groups, since TIM Plus will automatically pick up the channel groups as they are configured in your phone systemautomatically imports channels from your telephone system, placing them in their respective groups.

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To configure the properties of a channel group, highlight the group you are interested in want to configure and click on the Properties button at the top-right corner of the panel:

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A new window will open, where you can configure the properties of your channel group. Each  Each tab in the Group properties window will be explained is described below:

General

In the

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tab you can enter a edit the name of your the channel group - this is normally related to the name by which it is referred to in your organisational directory - and the trunk and its associated access code, if applicable.

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Channels in this group emulate network termination

Tick this box This option only applies if you have a call recording option in place and if the currently selected trunk is part of a Private circuitenabled integrated call recording on your system. Its purpose is to indicate that the far end of the channel's physical connection is emulating PSTN network termination (NT), such as in a private circuit scenario.

Telephony

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Do not logCalls for this channel group will not be logged by TIM Plus. In addition, if integrated call recording is in use, no audio recordings will be available
Do not record callsCalls for this channel group will not be recorded, if integrated call recording is in use
Exclude channels from call statisticsCollection of statistics will not be performed for this channel group

Tariff

The Tariff tab allows gives you the ability to select the a default tariff table to use, when costing calls for this channel in this group.

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To rename a channel group, locate the entity it in the Directory and click on the Properties tab.

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A new window will open, where you can rename specify a new name for the group. Click Save to apply the changes.

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Deleting a channel group

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When you are deleting delete a channel group, you are deleting all the information contained within that group, including all channels and the calls associated with those channels!

To remove a channel group from the Directory, select the group you want to remove and click on the  Properties button. In the new Channel properties window that opens, you have the option to delete the selected group. You will also be asked to confirm the deletion, in order to prevent groups will open, click on the Delete button to remove the channel from the Directory; a confirmation will be required, to prevent users being deleted accidentally.

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