You can designate specific phones (hosts) that users (guests) can temporarily sign in to and use as their own phone.


Workspace phones and user phones can be enabled as a hoteling host phone.

If a user is set up with shared lines, speed dials, and/or monitoring keys like BLF and call park, these don’t appear on a host phone when the user is signed in as a guest. Host phones can have shared lines configured, which are then available to all hoteling users.

Allow a workspace device to be used as a hoteling host

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From the customer view in https://admin.webex.com, go to Management and select Workspaces.

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Select a workspace to modify.

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Under Devices, select the device.

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Under Hoteling, select the toggle to enable.

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Choose the number of hours the device can be used by visiting guests from the drop-down.

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Once configured, choose Reboot from the Actions drop-down list. This will apply the softkey configuration after the phone reboots.


 

You can perform the same configuration by navigation to Management > Devices where you get the list of both workspace and user devices.

Allow a user device to be used as hoteling host

Before you begin

User's primary device with professional license can only be configured as hoteling host.

1

From the customer view in https://admin.webex.com, go to Management and select Users.

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Select a user and click the Devices tab.

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Under Devices, select the device.

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Under Hoteling, select the toggle to enable.

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Choose the number of hours the device can be used by visiting guests from the drop-down.

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Once configured, choose Reboot from the Actions drop-down list. This will apply the softkey configuration after the phone reboots.

Turn on hoteling for a user

Enabling hoteling for a user allows them to work in another space while maintaining the functionality and features of their main desk phone.

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From the customer view in https://admin.webex.com, go to Management and select Users.

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Select a user and click the Calling tab.

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Go to Between-user Permissions section, and turn on Hoteling.

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Click Save.

Example

Want to see how it's done? Watch this video demonstration on how to configure hoteling in the Control Hub.

Once you've configured, users can search, and locate the phone (host) they want to use from user portal and sign in to it to access their profile. For more information, see: Access your calling profile from anywhere.