Can CSV (or another) import handle events with multiple showtimes?

[Brendan Stevenson]

I’m looking to purchase event aggregator and i’ve built a CSV generation script around that goal, but i’ve got an issue. My client has shows with multiple times – i’d like all the times to show up on the calendar but i would *not* like each one to appear as a separate event. The reason for that is mostly cosmetics on the calendar but also our events source doesn’t have the flexibility to provide a lot of the dynamic content we want to – so we anticipate we’ll add extra event information to each event. If we’ve got 20 showings of the same event, i don’t want to have to do the same work 20 times and have it show up as 20 different event entries!

I’ve got a CSV import that works the way i’d rather it didn’t – so for “Super Excellent Funshow” with show times from mon-sat at 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm, that’s a total of 18 “Super Excellent Funshow” event rows in the CSV. Is there a better way so that we have one “Super Excellent Funshow” event?

Thanks!

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Brendan and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

I’m looking to purchase event aggregator and i’ve built a CSV generation script around that goal, but i’ve got an issue.

Actually, there is no need to get the Events Aggregator if your need is solely to import CSV. This functionality is free and built-in into the Events Calendar. Head over to Events -> Imports

My client has shows with multiple times – i’d like all the times to show up on the calendar but i would *not* like each one to appear as a separate event.

Would you mind clarifying what you mean by not appearing as separate events ?

Just showing the next one ? Using recurring events ?
I do understand that you do not want to be re-entering the information manually for each event, but I am having issues envisioning how that would work display-wise.

One thing you could do is to is import only one event and then manually adding recurrence rules using the recurring events feature of the Events Calendar Pro: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/

This would not impact the display side of things, but it would make things easier as far as the events entry.

Sadly, CSV does not let you import recurrence rules however.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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