For Honcho, a Schedule is a combination of rules that applies to a particular functional area/team/location.
A Schedule is a way to isolate that group to apply the rules of auto-assignment.
Any number of Schedules can be created for a project, and each Schedule can be activated/deactivated based on your requirements. You can also copy an existing schedule while creating a new one.
Schedule Settings
Issue Types: For every project you get to configure Issue Types such as Story, Epic, Task, Sub-task, Bug, etc. Feel free to choose more than one, or even all Issue Types as per your need.
Issue Status: Similarly, with Issue Statuses, Honcho will share options of configured issue statuses such as ‘To-do’, ‘In progress’, ‘Done’, and the likes.
Please note, if you select more than 1 Issue Types, the app will present before you a list of common Issue Statuses for both. For instance, if Task comprises 5 Issue Statuses and Epic has 4, and the two have 3 common Issue Statuses, the admin will have to choose from the overlapping ones.
A schedule will be triggered only when a selected issue type (such as Story, Task, etc.) moves to the selected status (such as ‘To-do’).
Activating Schedules
You can activate a schedule by selecting the status of the schedule to yes (marked in green).
In scenarios where you create a schedule but do not want to launch it, or keep the configured item ready as a part of a simulation, simply disable the button. Click on save, and you’re good to go!
As soon as you click save, the ‘Add Rotation’ button gets activated. Consider this s a trigger, and move on to create configurations for a rotation.