# Change on-call rotation day

## Change on-call rotation day

Suppor you have an on-call on weekly shift which rotates every Wednesday and wish to change it to rotate from Monday (or any other day) then please read carefully.

It comes with 2 caveats though and this documents how to solve them. Please read carefully before changing.

### Example on-call

Assume we have a Primary on-call schedule with A, B, C, and D as on-call members in the exact sequence rotating their duties on a weekly basis. C is currently on-call. Next week, D will be on-call.

#### How to change?

You must use the `schedule to start` option. This helps you to schedule an on-call to start a future date. The strategy here is to change the existing schedule to start on the next Monday (or the day you wish to start). To change, Visit on-call schedule > Settings > Schedule to start later next monday and submit.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Caveats!** Be wary of this. There are 2 caveats since our systems will pretty much treat this as a new on-call schedule.

1. No-one will be on-call till the next Monday. To solve this problem, we would recommend you add an override to cover the gap till then.
2. This will also change the on-call order. Before updating, C was currently on-call and D was supposed to go on-call next week. But now, we will have nobody on-call and A will be on-call again starting Monday. This resets the cycle.
   {% endhint %}

To combat the above caveats, we recommend the following actions

1. Add C as an override till the next Monday.
2. Change the order of members going on-call to D,A,B,C. To do this, visit on-call schedule > edit > scroll to the layer and rearrage the order by holding the `::` dots icon next to the names.

This would change the rotations from Monday to Monday.

## F.A.Qs

### Can this be undone?

No, this operation cannot be undone. To test, feel free to create a new on-call schedule. You can archive it later.

### Can I schedule to start in the past?

No, we don't support scheduling an on-call to start in the past.


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