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We want the ability to ring the Polycom desk phone before RingCentral App

Due to Covid 19, our phone receptionists are rotating working from home and the office. They use all three methods to answer incoming calls - (1) Polycom desk phone (when in the office), 2) RingCentral desktop app (they like the pop-up caller ID and answer using wireless headset and 3) RingCentral Mobile App.

When they work from home, they only use the RingCentral Apps and leave their Polycom desk phone at the office. So on days when they are at the office they prefer to have their Polycom desk phone ring first because of the way they have to page the building, (we use a CyberData paging adapter and it only works from the desk phone). The problem is, when an incoming call comes in, it always rings their mobile app first, which is the default and apparently there is no way to change this setting. We realize that they can simply disable their mobile app when in the office, so the desk phone and desktop app are the only devices that ring, but we are requesting the ability to allow the desk phone to be the first to ring instead of the mobile app. 
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roger-mulock answered roger-mulock commented
You could set the ringing to Simultaneous rather than Sequential. I think it would accomplish what you want to do, and it would not have to be reset depending on where the persion was that particular day. 
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We have it set for simultaneous, but it still rings the app first. We have to wait for the desk phone to ring after the app rings out its turn. We did reduce the number of rings down to 2 on the app, which helps. 
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Have you tried the 0/0 setting?
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rob-larose9408 answered
This is the longest-standing and most up-voted feature request in the Community forums.  They've punted it and refused to engage their customers about it for 6 years.

RC product/platform doesn't respect the Community -- neither the paying customers nor their own staff Community Minders.
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joshua-blackwell5743 answered
Setting the Desktop and Mobile app to 0 seconds in the call flow will have all 3 devices ring at the same time.  There's not a way to have the desk phone ring before the desktop and mobile app.
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