Table of Contents
Scope:
This documentation will show you to properly import users and phones into a domain using a CSV file.
Requirements:
- Reseller Access to Manager Portal
- List of users and phone to import
- Any application that will allow you to edit and save CSV files. Make sure the CSV file is a plain CSV and not a UTF-8 or any other encoded type.
Warning:
The import does not validate the information submitted. Be sure to review and clean up your data before importing.
Downloading the Template
- Navigate to the Users tab of the domain you are trying to edit and click on Import
- Go ahead and click on Download Template
- This will download the excel template needed to properly import users
- Fill out each column as follows
- extension - Extension of the user
- domain - Leave as default
- first name - First name of the user
- last name - Last name of the user
- login - ext@domainname
- email address - Email address of the user (If the user does not have an email address you can add a place holder such as [email protected])
-
voicemail pin - Change to default VM Pin
- (Minimum Digits for VM Pin: 4)
- department - Change to desired user department if departments are being set up on the domain. Department and site names must be unique.
- vmail enabled - leave it as yes if the user is going to have VM
- answer time - Change to user's desired ring time
- timezone - Leave as domain default
- caller id - Leave as default unless the user will have a different outbound CID
- 911 caller id - Leave as default unless it is set to the incorrect E911 number
- dial plan - Do not change as if it is different from the domain's dial plan the user will not be able to make calls
- audio directory - Leave as yes if users will be included in AA Audio Directory
- visual directory - Leave as yes if you would like the extension to appear as a BLF
- vmail_transcribe - Update to google if the user would like voicemails to be transcribed and emailed to them and no to disable
-
email_vmail - leave blank if email_vmail_enable is set to no
- yes - send with a hyperlink
- brief - send with a brief hyperlink
- attnew - send an attachment and leave as new
- attsave- sent an attachment and move to saved
- atttrash - send attachment move to trash
- briefattnew - send a brief attachment and leave as new.
- briefattsave- send a brief attachment and move to saved
- briefatttrash- send a brief attachment and move to trash
- email_vmail_enable - Set to no if you would like for voicemail to not be delivered to your inbox. Otherwise, set to yes
- add phone extension - Mark as yes if the users if going to have a phone
- scope - Type out the Scope of the user exactly as it shows in the portal ex: Office Manager, Basic User, etc.
- Repeat the above steps as many times as needed
- Make sure to the excel sheet as a .CSV file as the PBX will not accept other file types
Importing the Users into the Domain
- Now that the excel sheet is set up go back to the domain
- Click on Import
- Now click on Browse and navigate to the directory of the excel sheet
- Now go ahead and click Upload and the users will now be imported into the domain