# Schedules

While a **Team** groups your responders together, the **Schedule** defines the rotation logic (e.g., "User A is on duty this week, User B is on duty next week"). When an incident occurs, ITOC360 checks the active Schedule to find the current on-call person and notifies them via their defined Channels.

#### Creating a New Schedule

To set up an on-call schedule for your team:

1. Navigate to Management > **Schedules**.
2. Click the **Create Schedule** button.
3. **Name:** Give the schedule a clear name (e.g., "DBA - Primary On-Call").
4. **Description:** Add context about what this schedule covers.
5. **Time Zone:** Select the operational time zone.
   * *Critical:* All shift start/end times will be calculated based on this setting.
6. **Active:** Enable this to make the schedule eligible for alert routing. Disable it to keep the schedule as a draft or temporarily stop notifications.
7. Click **Create** to finish.

#### Managing a Schedule

After you create a schedule, you can assign who is on-call for a specific time range.

1. Navigate to Management > **Schedules**.
2. Find the schedule you created and click it.
3. On the calendar, highlight the date/time range you want to configure.
4. In the modal that opens, select the **users** for this schedule.
5. Select which of their **Channels** will be included for this schedule.
6. Click **Save** to apply the assignment.


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