Adding categories to event on import

[Jason]

Hi Support,
This is a follow up to https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/set-default-organizer-categories-tags-per-imported-feed/. I’m attempting to add additional categories to events of an ical import other than the 1 category allowed through the ical import interface.

I’m adding the following code:
add_action( ‘tribe_events_update_meta’, ‘set_default_event_meta’);
function set_default_event_meta ( $event_id ) {
wp_set_object_terms($event_id, array(‘student’), ‘tribe_events_cat’ );
}

This works great but unfortunately the code within your plugin wipes out any categories that I apply in this method. Line 473 of importer.php in the ical importer add on has:
wp_set_object_terms( $event[‘ID’], $terms, Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY, false );

The last parameter false says replace whatever categories are there with the category defined on the import interface. This wipes out the student category I was trying to add even if there are none defined in the interface. Could this last parameter be changed to be true…then it would append the category rather than wipe them out.

[Cliff]

Hi Jason. Thanks for your detailed question.

Have you tried editing that line of /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-importer-ical/src/Tribe/Importer.php and seeing if changing false to true does work as desired?

[Jason]

Yes, I changed the false to true and it worked great. I was able to use the code to add the additional categories. Is this something that can be changed in the core code?

[Cliff]

Thanks for confirming that worked for you.

I passed the idea along to our developers and they agreed making that filterable would be ok. So the best I can say now is that it likely might come in a future release.

Thanks for helping make our plugins better!

[Support Droid]

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