allow custom scheduling instead of the auto-generated rotation
The current model of specifying some users and having pagerduty do the rest is very nice but makes for lots of work if the agreed on rotations are unusual (for example there's a user who only does one week out of a month while another who is willing to do 2 weeks at a stretch as long as they get a month in between, etc.)
anonymous
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I’m happy to announce that we have the new version of the calendar live in production!
14 comments
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John Alberts
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The new calendar is great. Thank you for finally bringing this much needed feature to fruition.
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PalominoDB
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Would like the ability to schedule for certain individual periods of whatever length is required (such as 3 days), and ideally the ability to put in rules around not putting the same person on a weekend two shifts in a row - though this can be done with manual intervention.
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Nick Zadrozny
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Another +1 for detailed scheduling. Google Calendar integration would be amazing, since that's what I'm already using as my central data store for my availability.
You might get a few ideas from http://tungle.me/ which does a great job integrating with my Google calendar, admittedly with a slightly different overall use case.
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John Alberts
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We are testing pagerduty right now and this is an absolutely essential feature for us. I see it was mentioned 11 months ago that this feature will be added. Is it close to being released?
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Sean, please email your two week rotation details to support@pagerduty.com and we'll gladly create the schedule for you.
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Sean Schluntz
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Hello, we are trialing your system. Being able to define a two week rotation schedule would help with my organization.
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syrnick
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It would be great to just sync with a google calendar and pick up the schedule from there. You'd save yourself a lot of calendar engineering if people can use external calendar to create an appropriate schedule. Also, anyone can program their scheduling policy via google code API. You only need to read that in and display as a schedule within PagerDuty.
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Daniel Pugh
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hi we need this urgently as 4 engineers and every week we need to have the same engineer on the same day for at least 3 of the days.
one engineer is never available on saturday, one is always on friday etc.our on call schedule is 6am-spanning entire day to 1am mon-friday
and 6am-12am on sundayany idea when these improvements may arrive, otherwise loving the system
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Samer Masry
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I'd like to see this implemented as well. In the case where your default oncall period is 2 weeks there is no way to configure it without creating exceptions.
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Stephen, thanks for the comment. The redesigned calendar will allow you to create bi-weekly rotations. Will that work for you?
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Stephen Starkey
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Does the work planned for this item include saying things like "every two weeks ending on a Tuesday?" This would be very useful for us.
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Mason, thanks for the comment. We plan on redesigning the calendar very soon. The redesign will cover your use case of being able to create a recurrence (ie. Bob is on-call every week on Tue 10 am to Wed 10 am).
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Mason Hale
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To add some more input to this redesign, our rotation schedule is such that some users are assigned the same day each week, e.g. Bob is always on-call Tuesday 10am to Wednesday 10am. Fred is on-call Wednesday 10am to Thursday 10am, etc. I don't see a way to configure things this way in the current UI.
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Dear anonymous,
We will leave this issue open for a few days in the hope that our reply will reach you.
