Category calendar ical link seems to have events from other categories…

[Scott Stoddard]

When I use the URL http://www.xxxxxxx.xxx/events/category/academic-calendar/ical to import/sync the feed into another calendar, I’m getting events that are not just the ones from the Category “academic calendar”.

Is this a known issue?

[Cliff]

Hi Scott. Thanks for reporting this. I have confirmed it on my local testing site and reported the issue to our developers. They will evaluate it and hopefully fix it in the future (I cannot provide any guarantees on if or when).

I did notice the month view iCal export included events NOT in the specified category, as you reported.

However, the list view’s iCal export included ONLY the events in the specified category.

So for your use case, maybe you could try using the list view’s .ics file. I hope that works for you for now.

Please let me know how things go.

Thanks.

[Brian]

Hi Scott,

I think I narrowed down the issue for this and have a temporary fix you can use to fix the Category Month Views iCal Feeds.

/*
* The Events Calendar - Force Category to iCal Feed
*/
add_filter( 'tribe_ical_feed_month_view_query_args', 'tribe_modify_month_ical_query', 10, 2 );
function tribe_modify_month_ical_query( $args, $month ) {
global $wp_query;
$category = '';
if ( isset( $wp_query->query_vars[Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY]) ) {
$category = $wp_query->query_vars[ Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY ];
}
if ( $category ) {
$args[ Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY ] = $category;
}
return $args;
}

Adding that to your theme’s functions.php should force the iCal in month view categories to correctly only show events in that category.

I found that if you use the next and previous event links that the export works correctly for all views, it is just the initial load creating the bug.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks

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