# Post Rotation Updates to Slack Channels & Channel Topic

Pagerly keeps your entire team informed by automatically posting rotation changes to Slack channels and updating the channel topic with the latest on-call information. No more guessing who’s on-call or digging into schedules — the answer is always visible where your team works.

#### What Pagerly Can Do with Slack Channels

📢 **Automatically Post Rotation Change Notifications**

* Post updates to any Slack channel(s) whenever On-call rotation changes.\
  Messages clearly show:
* Who is currently on-call
* Shift duration and timing
* Team or rotation name
* Keeps everyone aligned without manual announcements.
* Add Custom Context Messages like runbook or any doc or anything

📝 **Auto-Update Slack Channel Topic**

* Pagerly can automatically update the Slack channel topic to reflect:
  * Current on-call user(s)
  * Rotation name
  * Escalation or backup info (optional)<br>

### Team Settings

#### T**eam Channel(s)**

&#x20;The slack channel which would subscribe for any oncall handover / oncall rotation change. On any change in oncall rotation, you would receive 2 notifications on this slack channel

* **Channel Topic Update**  : Your slack channel topic would be automatically updated with the current oncall. \
  It would look something like this 👇🏻
* **Channel Message** : Your channel would receive a notification on the oncall change &#x20;

&#x20;     ([Customize Notification Here](https://docs.pagerly.io/how-to-work-with-pagerly/custom-change-notification-on-slack))👇🏻

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#### **Notification && Topic  Setting**s&#x20;

&#x20;You can choose to receive if you want to receive notifications on oncall/rotation change as well topic updates.&#x20;

* Update Channel with Topic Name -> If you want your channel topic to be updated with latest oncall
* Show Change Notification on Channel -> If you want to receive the Notification whenever there is a change in oncall / rotation ([Customize Notification Here](https://docs.pagerly.io/how-to-work-with-pagerly/custom-change-notification-on-slack))

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