| If you don't know why a call was answered on a particular ring check the "What Happened" log.
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| Call Soft determines the ring to answer on in this order.
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| 1. If your using distinctive ring and a pattern is found, the ring to answer on define in the ring pattern is used unless the option "Use Default (leave alone)" is selected.
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| 2. If the caller is in the phonebook and a specific ring to answer on is set.
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| 3. If your using ring schedules the first schedule that is active and the ring to answer on defined in it will be use.
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| 4. The default ring to answer on as defined on the ring tab i.e. here.
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| · | Ring to answer on:
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| Set this to the ring number you want Call Soft to answer on. Click the Use Ring Schedules button if you want Call Soft to answer on a different ring based on the time of day or on a specific day. When you select Ring Schedules another tab will appear at the bottom of the dialog box.
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| · | When the phone rings play or say this:
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| 1. | Ringer sound. This is simply the sound you want played to emulate the phone ringing and it's played on every ring. If you don't want Call Soft to play this sound until a certain ring number has been reached you can specify that also.
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| 2. | Also say who is calling as soon as possible: This will be played through your computers speakers as soon as the caller is known. This is usually immediately after receiving caller ID. You can use tags such as <name> and <number> to identify the caller. This is different from the Ringer sound because it is played only once. So if you want to say the caller's name twice simply use two <name> tags.
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| The default message is: <name> is calling from <number>
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| The text in brackets <> are tags and will be replaced with information pertaining to the call.
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| · | <date> will be replaced with the date of the call. The format of the date is defined by the system long date. You can modify these settings by double clicking the regional options icon in Control Panel.
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| · | <time> will be replaced with the time of the call. The format of the time is defined by the system long time. You can modify these settings by double clicking the regional options icon in Control Panel.
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| · | <name> will be replaced with the caller's name.
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| · | <number> will be replaced with the caller's number
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| · | <answeron> is replaced with the ring Call Soft intends to answer on.
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| · | Yes I want to see the caller in the flash window.
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| Choose option to show the caller in the flash window. Click the setup button to define the look of the flash window.
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| · | When the phone rings do this also:
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| · | Make my Num Lock light flash. If you prefer a more silent form of notification you can choose this option. It will blink your Num Lock light on your keyboard for 10 seconds or so. It will put the Num Lock back to it's original position afterwards.
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| · | Restore main window if minimized. Check this option to make Call Soft visible when the phone rings.
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| · | Yes I want to see the caller in the flash window. Choose option to show the caller in the flash window. Click the setup button to define the look of the flash window.
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| · | Yes notify users on my network who is calling. If the PC running Call Soft is part of a local network choose this option to have a message sent to people on the network. Click the setup button to define the message and the PC's to send the message to.
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| · | Notify user via Yac. Send a YAC message to remote PC's. See YAC Setup for more information.
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| See Also:
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| Ring Schedules
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| Distinctive Ring
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| Flash Window
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