# 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)**

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

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

<figure><img src="/files/OaeuPo0PPARSDb43SivH" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/5j9JuECHv0kt4PYBf1Iy" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

#### **Notification && Topic Setting**s

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

* 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))

<figure><img src="/files/ISVcTfzEiG124RdHV6YZ" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.pagerly.io/rotations-on-slack/post-rotation-updates-to-slack-channels-and-channel-topic.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.