Hi team,
It would be beneficial to add an integration or automation to import "holiday dates" into schedules in the Zendesk Admin center.
Use Case:
- If you are part of a global company managing multiple schedules, you have to add holidays one-by-one for each schedule. For example, if there's 11 annual USA federal holidays, they must be re-added and adjusted each year. This is the same for all schedules (e.g. additional holidays across global timezones and regions - GMT, JST, etc).
- The schedules require a manual review each year to review the holidays one-by-one and select the date.
Request(s):
- Does Zendesk plan to have any feature integrations with calendar importers (e.g. Google, Microsoft) or add improvements to the API that can aggregate holidays in the system based on timezone selected?
- Ex. If I go to create a schedule, Zendesk could present an option "What is the desired timezone or location?" > drop-down list aggregated from an API/integration > pre-populate a list of holidays from the API/integration that you can select or de-select as valid entries for holiday dates populated based on the timezone or location selected that can be imported. If you chose EST, presented with USA Holidays, or GMT is selected, etc.
- Easy to report on or see upcoming holidays, past holidays, etc. ex. when viewing the "Schedules" portal in Admin you see an alert or icon next to a schedule that you hover over "This is a reminder that XX holiday is coming up on XX date for this Schedule".
- Option(s) to import a calendar directly from Google or Microsoft (e.g. if a company already manages a cross-global calendar with holidays for different timezones, provide a way to import the holidays into Zendesk)


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