We get a published rotation of people covering the next 30 days from an outside vendor so the schedule changes every month. I don’t see an end date for a layer. - like starts Monday 3/16 and ends Friday 3/20. Right now the schedule just repeats ad nauseam even though we don’t have the schedule for April yet. Our old paging system allowed Start On and End On dates. Does PagerDuty have that mechanism?
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30 days rotations
I found where I can delete a layer but I would have to schedule it for deletion right after I created it so I won’t forget. Or enter a months of oncalls at one time and remember to expire the layer when I created it.
How hard would it be to have an end date. that shift start is already there?
+1Hi
Outside of using the API, the only way to add an end date to a schedule layer is by "deleting" the layer. When you "delete" a layer, you really just set an end date for it; the UI gives you full control of the value.
Source: End-Date a Schedule Layer
On this base layer, you can easily create overrides for each month as you receive the schedule. Otherwise you will have to create a new layer for each new month’s schedule.
Hope that helps clarify things!
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