{"id":307086,"date":"2021-09-10T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=307086"},"modified":"2021-09-10T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:04:22","slug":"how-to-make-a-priority-call-on-the-cisco-8800-series-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/how-to-make-a-priority-call-on-the-cisco-8800-series-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Priority Call on the Cisco 8800 Series Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes you may need to handle urgent calls and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/manufacturer\/cisco\/phones\/corded-phones\/8800-series\">Cisco\u2019s 8800 phones<\/a> make identifying these important calls easy for you! The multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) system allows you to easily set these emergency calls as higher priority than normal calls so you can respond to them faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2021\/09\/Twitter-Posts-October-2020-4.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once set up, when a high-priority call rings on your phone, you will see the priority level on the screen and the call will appear at the top of the call list. Check out the MLPP icons and the corresponding level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/hDfUPFelURNPQkfcPtIZN8BcBva08E2726rxWPzOAns6PpC5zxNw61WdOQsCpwFoGgCLDioa_shlzGPrwlLz-9SsXbjT_PUjEeUQnVpoVzWpmIfbkMPzXHHQlqYcs7smuDGgtDB1=s0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to make a priority call on Cisco\u2019s 8800 Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To make a priority call, you might need to sign in with your special credentials and then follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Step 1 Pick up your Cisco phone handset.<\/li><li>Step 2 Press PrecLevel<\/li><li>Step 3 Select a priority level for the call<\/li><li>Step 4 (Optional) Enter your credentials on the authorization screen<\/li><li>Step 5 Enter the destination number. You see the precedence level icon on the phone screen and you hear the precedence ringback tone<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it! Did this feature help you deal with critical calls? We want to know! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/manufacturer\/cisco\/phones\/corded-phones\">Visit our product page to learn more about Cisco\u2019s 8800 Series phones!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may need to handle urgent calls and Cisco\u2019s 8800 phones make identifying these important calls easy for you! The multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) system allows you to easily set these emergency calls as higher priority than normal calls so you can respond to them faster.\u00a0 Once set up, when a high-priority call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1573,1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-installations","category-q-a","category-small-business-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307106,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307086\/revisions\/307106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}