how import contacts into poly 8800 from RC?

is this possible?  seems like many poly phones allow this.  poly doesn’t seem to allow a way to batch import contacts so instead you must manually enter one by one, but they said to talk to RC because it should be possible for them to be imported from the directory in RC.  but...RC has said that it’s not possible because it’s a conference room speakerphone and therefore has no need to have contacts.  (news to me and counter to the fact that the second button on the home screen is for Contacts).