On-call scheduling: Out of hours on-call - 3 week shift cycle
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08-30-2024 02:51 AM
Hi,
I'm trying to configure an on-call schedule for a team which work on a 3 week rotation. Each week has a primary and secondary on-call person. The weekly cycle should change at 08:00 AM every Monday and the pattern looks something like below.
Week 1:
Primary: Alice
Secondary: Bob
Week 2:
Primary: Bob
Secondary: Carol
Week 3:
Primary: Carol
Secondary Alice
My way of doing this was to create 3 shifts; one for each week in "Define Schedule". I set these to repeat every day.
Then under "Members", I have added a Primary roster and a Secondary roster for each shift.
Example for Week 1 shift - Primary contains Alice and Secondary contains Bob. The "Rotation start date" is the first Monday of the schedule. "Rotation interval" is Weekly. "Rotate every" 3 Weeks. "Day of week for rotation" Monday.
After publishing the schedule, I view it in "On-Call Calendars". If I right click and "edit span" I can set each schedule entry to Repeat Weekly every 3 weeks.
The issue I'm having is that the repeating schedule on the shifts seems to rotate the pattern on a Sunday rather than a Monday. I don't see any way of defining which day to rotate on the schedule level.
Is there a better way to configure this on-call rotation so that it rotates on a Monday as desire?
Many Thanks