greeting for direct phone numbers

[bnelson]

Our client wants to know if this is possible.

They want to give thier employees a direct dial phone number
example:
555-1111 Mary
555-1112 John
555-1113 Joe

When people call these numbers, they want a message to play: "Thanks for calling [COMPANY NAME], please hold while we transfer your call" currently it just rings, without playing any message.

Is this possible?

 

[leejor]

DID number-> automated attendant (unique one created for each user), caller gets personal greeting message, after 1 second delay->rings extension-. no answer can go to voicemail or forwarded elsewhere.

 

[abc123]

DID number-> automated attendant (unique one created for each user), caller gets personal greeting message, after 1 second delay->rings extension-. no answer can go to voicemail or forwarded elsewhere.

With the commercial edition, we prefer to do this with a call queue. Both achieve the same result though.