# Vacation
## How does Distro handle vacations?
Distro can automatically detect vacations from a team member's calendar. It looks for full-day busy events (24-hour slots with no gaps). These can be single days or recurring events. Partial day blocks are not counted as vacation time.
When a team member has a full-day block, Distro will skip them in the round-robin assignment and give leads to other available team members.
Distro treats distribution rules and ownership rules differently:
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* Use the "cover for colleague" logic by default
* This means if the assigned person is unavailable, Distro will try to find a suitable replacement
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* Simply skip unavailable users based on the settings
* No attempt is made to find a replacement; it just moves to the next available person in the rotation
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This distinction allows for more flexibility in how leads are handled when team members are unavailable, depending on which type of rule is being applied.
## Distribution Rules
Toggle the vacation calibration setting if you want to remove users from metting assignments during their vacation.
### **Vacation Buffer**
The vacation buffer setting controls when team members are removed from and re-added to lead distribution around their vacation periods.
Let's say Emma has a vacation from March 10th to March 20th, and the vacation buffer is set to 2 days before and 1 day after.
* Emma will stop receiving leads on March 8th (2 days before vacation starts)
* She'll start receiving leads again on March 19th (1 day before vacation ends)
#### **Key Points**
1. **Zero Buffer**: If set to "0", the team member is removed on the first day of vacation and added back on the last day.
2. **Buffer Longer than Vacation**: If the buffer is longer than the vacation (e.g., 5-day buffer for a 3-day vacation), the team member remains in the distribution.
3. **Different Before/After Settings**: You can set different numbers for the before and after buffers.
4. **Partial Days**: The system only considers full days for vacation and buffer calculations.
## Ownership Rule
Toggle the Cover for colleagues on vacation setting if you want to re-route meeting assignments to a designated colleague during their vacation.
### Cover for colleagues on vacation buffer
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Distro will never update lead/contact owner in the CRM when cover for colleagues is triggered.
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The cover for colleagues on vacation buffer set how many days before/after the vacation the colleague should receive meeting assignments.
## Design a colleague
Users can set up a colleague themselves. Head to Settings -> Profile
Admins can also manage the users settings. Head to Settings -> Members
