Create or edit a schedule

Rotations exist in two modes, manual and auto.

Behaviour is the same, but in auto mode, the rotation will automatically move to the following user based on the provided schedule.

To add a schedule to a rotation, pop the list of rotations with /rr and press the Schedule button.

We currently offer the following schedule modes:

• Fixed day of the week (rotate on the same day of the week, for example, every Monday)
• Fixed day of the month (rotate on the same day of the month, for example, the 10th of the month)
• Nth weekday of month (rotate the nth day of the week in the month, for example, the second Monday of the month)
• Working day (rotate on working days, based on the country of reference)
• Daily (rotate daily multiple times per day)
• List of weekdays (rotate on specific days of the week, like Monday and Wednesday, for example)

Period of rotation

The rotation period lets you control how long the schedule gaps are.

In a Fixed day (week or month), a period of one means every week or every month; 2 means every two weeks or every two months, and so on.

For working days, two means rotate every two working days, three every 3, etc.

For the Nth weekday rotation, it determines whether the rotation occurs every month. For example, a period of 2 means rotate the first Monday every two months.

Timezone

Every schedule mode supports time zones. During schedule creation, you can choose which time zone the rotation time uses, regardless of your local time zone.

Once the time zone is set, 10:00 (24-hour format) refers to 10 in the time zone of the city in question, not your local time zone. This also means the rotation will occur in that time zone, not yours. The time zones use the IANA format.

To get more information on the effect on your timezone, you can then describe the rotation using the "Describe" function, where all rotation times will be shown using your local timezone.

Schedule country

All schedule modes offer one additional feature related to the rotation "country" (or countries, if you want). You can use the country field to skip weekends (or other non-working days) and national holidays.

Because a working day is tied to the user's location, it is essential to know where the rotation will occur to deliver the correct events. You can select multiple countries and combine their effects.

This feature is also important to include public holidays in the equation. For example, if I set a rotation to run during the Easter break, the system will skip both Friday and Monday, which are public holidays in Germany.

In regular times, we can use this function to skip on weekends as well. A rotation set to run every working day in Germany and Israel will skip Friday and Saturday (Israel weekend) and Saturday and Sunday (Germany weekend), yielding the following result.

Daily rotation

Daily rotation is a particular type of rotation designed to rotate one or more time PER DAY.

This kind of schedule could be helpful in daily shifts and rotations where users need to shift multiple times on a 24/7 basis.