Takeover

One participant temporarily taking another's shift — one-directional and time-bounded.

A takeover is when one participant covers another's shift without trading their own. Unlike a swap, it's one-directional: the person taking over doesn't give up a shift in return.

Takeovers are for the cases a swap doesn't fit — vacation cover, a same-day favor, an illness. The original assignment isn't gone, it's just paused; the takeover has an end-time, and when that window closes the original assignment resumes automatically.

In Dynaro, a takeover is created with /oncall-take and is always time-bounded. At the end of the takeover window, Dynaro reverts to the original schedule and updates the user group back — no cleanup required.

In practice

Marco is out sick on Wednesday. Priya runs /oncall-take to cover just that day. Thursday morning, the takeover window ends and Dynaro hands the shift back to Marco automatically.

Related terms

Swap

Two participants trading shifts through a two-sided Slack approval flow.

Override

An admin-initiated assignment that supersedes the normal schedule for a defined window.

Shift

A single time-slot inside a rotation, assigned to one participant.

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