The Application Status Flag (APPSTAT)

The 9600 Series IP Telephones offer the user numerous applications like Contacts, Call Log, Redial, and so on. Each of these applications allows the user to add, delete, or in some cases, edit entries. You, as the administrator, might not want the user to have that level of functionality. For example, a hotel lobby telephone probably should not allow a user to delete the concierge’s contact number. Further, for privacy reasons, that same telephone should not allow a Call Log display. You can use the Application Status Flag, APPSTAT, to administer specific application functionality permission levels for one or more telephones.

APPSTAT consists of one number, specifying a certain level of allowed functionality. A Zero (“0”) value is the most limiting setting. Values “2” and “3” allow increasing levels of functionality, and “1” allows the user complete application functionality.

In Table 12, “suppressed” applications are not displayed to the user. Softkey labels, application tabs, and so on are not labeled or displayed. Options associated with suppressed applications can continue to display unless you override them by appropriate OPSTAT parameter administration. Displayed options have no effect while the application is suppressed.

In Table 12, “Contact changes are not allowed” means the Contact application displays and the user can make calls as normal. Any controls that allow the user to change any aspect of the Contact application do not display. This restriction includes the ability to add, delete, or edit any Contact name or number.

In Table 12, “Only one-number Redial is allowed” means the user Option that allows a choice between displaying last numbers dialed is suppressed. The Redial buffer stores only one number. The Redial application does not display since the user can redial only one number. This restriction allows privacy once a given user has left the telephone.

You can:

• set APPSTAT to 1, for example, in a staging area,
• administer a given telephone with Contact entries of your choice, like the Concierge telephone number button in the earlier example,
• then move the telephone to where it will be used, where you have administered APPSTAT to be, for example, 0 (zero).

When the relocated telephone resets, it retains its Contact entries, like Concierge, but does not allow the user to create new entries.

When you set APPSTAT to any valid value other than 1, the telephone does not accept any Contact button label changes that might have been made directly on a backup file. Only the existing labels of the telephone are used. This restriction prevents circumvention of the APPSTAT restrictions. The WML applications are also suppressed by default.