Administrator’s Guide for SIP-T2 Series/T4 Series/T5 Series/CP920 IP Phones
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Remote Phone Book File Customization
Yealink IP phones support remote phone book contact customization.
You can add multiple contacts at a time and/or share contacts between IP phones using the supplied template files
(Menu.xml and Department.xml).
You can ask the distributor or Yealink FAE for remote phone book template. You can also obtain the remote phone
book template online: http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage.
Topics
Remote Phone Book File Elements
Customizing Remote Phone Book File
Remote Phone Book File Elements
Yealink IP phones support two template files: Menu.xml and Department.xml.
The Menu.xml file defines the group/department of a remote phone book. The Department.xml file defines contact lists
for a department/group, which is nested in Menu.xml file.
The following table lists the elements you can use to add groups or contacts in the remote phone book file. We recom-
mend you do not edit these elements.
Template Element Valid Values
Department.xml
<DirectoryEntry>
<Name>Contact Name </Name>
<Telephone label="Number Label">Contact Num-
ber</Telephone>
<Extra label="Label">Extra Information</Extra>
</DirectoryEntry>
Add a contact in a depart-
ment/group:
If the label of the contact number is
left blank, the default label "Num-
ber X" is used.
Menu.xml
<MenuItem>
<Name>Department</Name>
<URL>Department URI</URL>
</MenuItem>
Add a contact department/group
file:
Specify the department/group
name between <Name> and
</Name>;
Specify the department/group
access URL between <URL>
and</URL>
<SoftKeyItem>
<Name>#</Name>
<URL>http://10.2.9.1:99/Department.xml</URL>
</SoftKeyItem>
Specify a department/group file for
a key:
Specify *key, # key or digit key
between <Name> and </Name>;
Specify the department/group
access URL between <URL>
and</URL>
Customizing Remote Phone Book File
1. Add contacts in a Department.xml file. Each starts on a new line.
For example,