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title: Task Attribute in Manage Phone Number Form
description: The Task attributes in Manage Phone Number Form form enables you to design and assign a phone number in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application.
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# Task Attribute in Manage Phone Number Form

The Task attributes in Manage Phone Number Form form enables you to design and assign a phone number in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application.

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Fields

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Description

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Action

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Action that you can select:-   **Allocate**: Allocates the numbers from a block
-   **De-allocate**: De-allocates the numbers. The status of the numbers is changed to Quarantine.

**Note:** When you select this action, you must select an allocation or the selected numbers that you want to deallocate. This action results in changing the status to Quarantine.

-   **Ported-in**: Includes the numbers that are moved from another operator. The numbers are stored in a telephone number allocation of telephone numbers only.

**Note:** Multiple allocations get created if the numbers aren’t in a series of numbers. Also, by default, the numbers are changed to the assigned or the ported-in status.

-   **Create**: Creates the phone number allocation for the numbers that are assigned to an external telephone block. You’re assigning the numbers to a network inventory-based phone number allocation.

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Service

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Service for these numbers. The selected service gets assigned to the numbers.**Note:** Ensure that you’ve created a service for this phone number. To learn more, see [Manage your network functions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/telecom-network-inventory/telecommunications-network-inventory/services.md).

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Quantity

</td><td>

Total number of required phone numbers.**Note:** This field disappears for a deallocated action.

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Line number

</td><td>

Enter your required line number in xxxx-xxxx or xxx-xxx or xxx, xxx-xxx format.**Note:** Multiple telephone number allocations are created if the line number isn’t in a series of numbers. Also, the status of these numbers gets updated to either assigned or ported-in and the availability is No.

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Available telephone numbers

</td><td>

Displays the list of telephone numbers that are available for allocation based on the selected country code, area code, and central office code.

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Country code

</td><td>

Country dialing code used to generate and manage the telephone numbers**Note:** This field appears only if Allocate action is selected in from the **Action** dropdown.

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Central office code

</td><td>

This field is optional to support geographies where the central office code isn’t a distinct or mandatory component of the telephone number.**Note:** This field appears only if Allocate action is selected from the **Action** dropdown.

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Area code

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Geographic area code that forms part of the telephone number.**Note:** This field appears only if Allocate action is selected from the **Action** dropdown.

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Telecommunications Network Inventory reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/telecom-network-inventory/telecommunications-network-inventory/telecommunications-network-inventory-reference.md)