Add support for BLA (Bridge Line Appearance) feature

Lih-Shyng Tzeng added a comment - 2006-06-29 21:35 Linked this issue with XCF-1114.

Lih-Shyng Tzeng added a comment - 2006-06-29 21:37 Remove the link to XCF-1114, which I added by mistake.

Lih-Shyng Tzeng added a comment - 2006-06-29 21:38 Woof, You are the proud owner of this feature. Thanks.

Michal Bielicki added a comment - 2006-06-30 03:28 I think the BLA/BLF feature on the SNOM phones works in the same way as on the Polycoms. Just send a request to SNOM to confirm that. So probably we can have both supported in one go

Lih-Shyng Tzeng added a comment - 2006-07-02 19:04 Polycom 1.6.3 firmware added the BLA support.

Lih-Shyng Tzeng added a comment - 2006-07-11 16:38 Take this off 3.6 list, in favor of BLF (XPB-697), which was added to 3.6.

Mardy Marshall added a comment - 2007-07-17 14:18 Added clarification of Appearance Number Allocation and initial description of Appearance State Publisher component.

Michael Picher added a comment - 2008-07-03 06:16 There seems to be some confusion in above comments between BLF and BLA. BLF = Busy Lamp Field. This would be whether a particular phone is busy or not. This would be the Manager/Assistant relationship mentioned above. BLA = Bridged Line Appearance. This would be the status of an outside line (FXO port status).

eliot robinson added a comment - 2009-02-17 06:33 many of our users are very interested in bridged line appearances (bla) which is known in the sip world as shared appearances of sip address of record. with the current system, the admin has to transfer the call to the boss. latest BLISS internet-draft is http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bliss-shared-appearances-01.txt which replaces draft-anil-sipping-bla-02.

Aaron Brumpton added a comment - 2009-05-12 14:24 Let me know if you need support from Polycom to implement this feature.

Carmi Weinzweig added a comment - 2009-05-13 11:30 There seems to be some confusion over the name/meaning of this function. I have seen it called shared call appearance, bridged call appearance, shared line appearance and several other names. What I mean and I think many others also mean is a feature that would act the following way (a real example from a real company using a Definity): A manager/admin setup that works as follows: Sarah, a manager, has a phone on her desk with call appearances for her main number (x-3123). She also has a phone on her office conference table with its own number (x-3302) but also with shared call appearances for her main number (x-3123). She shares a conference room with Ed, John, Steve, Susan and Simon. All their phone numbers have shared call appearances that conference room's phone. Molly (Sarah's administrative assistant) has a phone with shared call appearances for Sarah, Ed and Susan (two other Executive Team members for whom she provides shared coverage with Wendy and Lisa). When a call comes in for Sarah on x-3123, Molly can answer it, and just by looking at those little red and green lights on her phone she can tell if Sarah is on a call or not. She can then place this call on hold (not park it, just hit that red hold button) and call Sarah announcing this call. Sarah can answer this call just by pressing that button next to the flashing light (indicating a call on hold) and picking up her phone. She does not have to use call pick up. She can also pick this call up on her office conference table, or in the Executive Team's conference room in exactly the same way, not needing to understand or know anything else ("press the button with my name on it next to the blinking green led").

Carolyn Beeton added a comment - 2009-07-10 13:33 Code was submitted to main branch 15948. Crubicle reviews at http://code.sipfoundry.org/cru/XECS-28, http://code.sipfoundry.org/cru/XECS-29, and http://code.sipfoundry.org/cru/XECS-31. Some documentation can be found at http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/~cbeeton/Shared+Appearance+Agent