Department Groups

The Department page of the Edit Group dialog box lets you specify a group as a department and enter a telephony PIN or Cost Center ID for accounting purposes. The Department page appears when you click the Dept tab in the Edit Group dialog box (see Maintaining Group Information).

Use the following steps to specify department properties:

  1. Optionally check Use this Group as a Department to specify that the group you are editing is a department group.
    If you check this field, the PIN for Long Distance Calls and Cost Center fields become available.
  2. Optionally specify a value in the PIN for Long Distance Calls field.
    A telephony PIN authorizes members of a Vocera department to make toll phone calls and allows an organization to charge departments for those calls.
  3. Optionally specify a value in the Cost Center field.
    A Cost Center ID enables Vocera to track system usage by department and potentially allows an organization to charge its departments for relative usage.
  4. Do either of the following:
    • Click Save to close the Edit Group dialog box and return to the Edit Groups page.
    • Click another tab in the Edit Group dialog box to maintain additional group information.