Pick a person like a brush and drag across the grid to fill their hours. When an email alert set to follow the rota fires, it goes to whoever is on duty right then. No calendars to sync, no rotation rules to configure.
The rota is a grid of hours across a week. You fill it the way you would fill cells in a spreadsheet, and it repeats until you change it.
Select an engineer and drag across the hours they cover. Filling a shift takes a gesture rather than a form.
Lay down weekdays, weeknights or the whole week in one click, then adjust the edges by hand.
Only one person is on call for any given hour. Painting over an existing slot hands it over, so responsibility is never split or unclear.
Set the planner timezone once. Hours are stored against that zone rather than a fixed offset, so a shift does not drift when the clocks change.
Gaps in coverage are obvious because they are the empty cells. You can see a weekend nobody has claimed without reading a single rule.
Full members can change the rota. Read-only members can view it, so everyone can see who is on duty without being able to reassign it.
The rota does not take over your alerting. It is an option on an individual email step, so you decide which alerts follow it and which go to a fixed address.
Enable "use the on-call schedule" on any email step and it pages whoever is on duty when it fires, in place of a fixed recipient.
Steps that should always reach a specific person or a shared inbox simply do not have the option turned on.
If nobody is on call when an alert fires, the email goes to its own chosen recipient instead, so a page is never silently dropped.
Combine it with a wait step and a second email to a named engineer, so an unclaimed page moves up rather than sitting there.
Paint a week, point an email step at it, and let the alert find the right person on its own.