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Add support hours documentation to on-call routing rules#34589

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Extends the on-call routing rules documentation with comprehensive coverage of the support hours feature, including:

  • New support hours section with overview and workflow explanation
  • Comparison table distinguishing support hours from time restrictions
  • Configuration guide with time zone and restriction window setup
  • Two practical examples (business hours, split shift coverage)
  • Updated best practices for protecting responders
  • Cross-reference in on-call overview page

The support hours feature allows teams to snooze escalation policy notifications outside defined time windows while still creating Pages immediately for tracking purposes.

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Extends the on-call routing rules documentation with comprehensive
coverage of the support hours feature, including:

- New support hours section with overview and workflow explanation
- Comparison table distinguishing support hours from time restrictions
- Configuration guide with time zone and restriction window setup
- Two practical examples (business hours, split shift coverage)
- Updated best practices for protecting responders
- Cross-reference in on-call overview page

The support hours feature allows teams to snooze escalation policy
notifications outside defined time windows while still creating Pages
immediately for tracking purposes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Dalje-et Dalje-et requested a review from a team as a code owner February 13, 2026 11:01
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It's not clear where Routing Rules are supposed to be configured. It doesn't look like we mention it on the page. Could you please add some instructions to navigate and use these? I looked in the app, and it appears these are configured in a Team's settings?

Thanks!

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