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Overview

Rippling exposes your team’s time-off calendar as a subscribe-able feed. Point Rootly at that feed and vacations and PTO appear directly on top of your on-call schedule timeline. Shifts that overlap with someone’s leave are highlighted, making it easy to create an override before the next page fires. This is a read-only overlay. Rippling stays the source of truth for time off; Rootly polls the feed in the background and keeps the schedule view current.

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Exporting the Calendar Feed from Rippling

Rippling exposes a subscribe-able time-off calendar URL. Their short video tutorial walks through the exact UI path. If you can’t access the video, open Rippling’s Time Off module and look for the calendar-subscription or calendar-export option — that’s the screen the video lands on. If the option is hidden by your role’s permissions, ask a Rippling admin to generate the URL for you.
The URL Rippling generates starts with the webcal:// protocol. Rootly’s holiday calendar field expects an https:// URL — replace the webcal:// prefix with https:// before pasting it into Rootly.

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Adding the Feed to Rootly

Once you have the Rippling feed URL (with the webcal:// prefix replaced by https://), the rest of the setup happens inside Rootly’s schedules view.
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Open The Holiday Calendars Menu

In the Rootly dashboard, go to On-Call → Schedules. In the calendar preview area, open the Holiday calendars dropdown.
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Add A Holiday Calendar

Select Add your team’s holiday calendar, then choose Add a holiday calendar.
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Paste The Rippling Feed URL

Paste the rewritten https:// URL from Rippling into the URL field.
4

Name The Calendar And Pick A Timezone

Give the calendar a descriptive name (for example, Rippling — Company PTO) so teammates know what it represents. Select the appropriate timezone, or leave it blank to let Rootly infer it from the feed.
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Save And Toggle On

Click Add. Rootly fetches the calendar and begins syncing automatically. Back in the schedule view, select the new feed from the Holiday calendars dropdown to overlay Rippling time off on the on-call timeline.
For the full behavior of holiday calendars in Rootly — conflict highlighting, recurring events, multi-region setups — see Adding a Holiday Calendar.

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Troubleshooting

Rippling generates URLs with a webcal:// prefix that Rootly does not accept. Replace webcal:// with https:// and re-paste the URL.
The feed has to be toggled on per schedule preview. Open the Holiday calendars dropdown above the schedule and confirm the Rippling feed is selected.
The calendar timezone determines how all-day events align with on-call shifts. Remove the calendar and re-add it with the correct timezone, or leave the timezone field blank to let Rootly infer it from the feed.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Holiday calendars are read-only previews — they surface conflicts so you can decide whether to override, but they never reassign shifts.
Yes. If different teams or regions maintain separate Rippling time-off views, add each generated feed as its own calendar in Rootly.
Holiday calendar feeds are fetched over standard HTTPS. The webcal:// scheme is just a client-side handler hint — the underlying URL is identical when rewritten to https://.