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On-Call Scheduling in Service Operations Workspace

Use On-Call Scheduling in Service Operations Workspace to view and manage your shifts and schedules.

On-Call Scheduling overview

[Omitted video] Description: Introduction to On-Call Scheduling in Service Operations Workspace

As an agent, view your schedule and your peer's schedules, request an absence, propose coverage, and set your notification preferences.

As a Shift Manager, view, and manage shifts, approve or reject absence requests, and resolve gaps and conflicts. You can also manage notification preferences, delivery channels, escalation trigger rules, and policies for your group.

As an On-call Admin, view, and manage shifts, approve or reject absence requests, and resolve gaps and conflicts. You can also manage notification preferences, delivery channels, escalation trigger rules, and policies for any group.

Schedules in Service Operations Workspace

Use the Schedules menu on the home page to access On-Call Scheduling in Service Operations Workspace.

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On-call schedules

On-call Schedules tab

This tab displays all the user's schedules and shifts in a calendar or time-line view. You can customize the view as a day, week, or month view, and filter the calendar based on your groups or time zones.

You can manage your work, shifts, and time-off requests on this tab.

On-call notification preferences

On this tab, you can define your preferred notification methods to receive alerts when a ticket is escalated to you.

You can define the escalation notification rules and the delivery channels that are used to receive these notifications.

Teams in Service Operations Workspace

Use the Teams menu (

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Teams icon\) in Service Operations Workspace to view all teams. Select a team card to view and manage a team's schedule, define escalation policies, and team preferences for the selected shift. This feature verifies that your team knows who is on call, is accountable, and is confident that critical alerts or incidents are acknowledged.

Use the Schedule tab to create and manage shifts for your team. This feature verifies that the right person is available to respond to incidents and critical alerts. You can also add or edit team members, description, and the contact information of your team.

Use the Escalation triggers and policies tab to set an escalation policy and the trigger rules to be followed if there's an incident. You assign these policies and trigger rules, along with notification preferences, to a team.

Use the On-call Team preferences tab to edit shift preferences for a group. You can add a Shift Manager and the start day of the week, set preferences for absence requests and shift overlap, and escalation rules for shift overlap.

Contextual side panel

Use On-Call Scheduling from the Contextual side panel, when you open an incident. You can also configure experts on call and escalation tracking for any other record, if necessary.

Select the Experts On-call icon (

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Experts on-call icon.\) from the Contextual side panel to view and contact the recommended subject matter experts for help.

To view the escalation details and dynamic tracking of an on-call escalation, select the on-call escalations icon (

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On-call escalations icon.\) from the Contextual side panel.

Parent Topic:Managing IT services in your organization

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