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# Import Holidays Calendar

The **Import Holidays Calendar** feature allows Pagerly to automatically account for holidays in your on-call schedules. This ensures engineers are not assigned on-call duties during holidays and that rotations stay fair and accurate without manual adjustments.

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1\. Navigate to <https://workspace.pagerly.io/calendar>

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2\. Click "Import Holidays Calendar"

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1. **Calendar ID**
   * Add the calendar ID of the holiday or schedule you want to import.
2. **Select the User Who Will Be on Holiday**\
   Choose how Pagerly should identify the user associated with the holiday event:
   * **Assignee**: Select the user who was assigned to the event.
   * **Creator**: Select the user who created the event.

#### Action

Choose how Pagerly should handle the rotation when a holiday is detected for the selected user.

**🔁 Skip the user and assign to next in queue**

* The user is automatically skipped for the holiday period.
* On-call duty is assigned to the next eligible person in the rotation.
* The skipped user rejoins the rotation normally after the holiday.
* Slack usergroups, channel notifications, and calendars update automatically.

**📢 Don’t skip — alert on channel**

* The user remains assigned to the rotation.
* Pagerly posts a notification in the configured Slack channel highlighting the holiday conflict.
* Allows the team to decide manually whether to swap or add an override.
* No automatic changes are made to the rotation.

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4\. Holiday calendar has been imported successfully!

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