Use Holiday Schedules to preview your team’s upcoming holidays and paid-time-off alongside your on-call schedules to quickly identify conflicts and schedule overrides.

Creating a holiday calendar

To create a new holiday calendar:

  1. Navigate to Schedules in the Rootly dashboard.

  2. Select the ‘Holiday calendars’ dropdown in the calendar preview and then ‘Add your team’s holiday calendar’ link.

  3. Select ‘Add a holiday calendar’.

  4. Enter the iCal URL of your team calendar. Add a descriptive name. Select the relevant timezone for the calendar.

  5. Finally, click ‘Add’.

Back in your Schedule view, you can now select your calendar to preview the events with your on-call schedule.

Working with holiday calendars

While previewing a holiday calendar, Rootly will highlight on-call shifts that have potential conflicts with your holiday calendar, such as a responder being on vacation.

Check out Creating Overrides to learn how to update your schedule to ensure you have coverage when responders are not available to take their shift.