Creating custom description for .ics file

[Dave]

I’d like to specify the description that is automatically added to the .ics file for each event. Currently it adds the entire text of each event post. Either of these solutions would work for me:

1. The .ics description displays the post excerpt
2. The .ics description displays a custom field

I can see this line on line 478 of events-calendar-pro.php:

$item[] = ‘DESCRIPTION:’ . str_replace( ‘,’,’\,’, $description );

Is that the line I should change? My php skills are advanced enough to know what to change it to. Could someone help me?

[Jonah]

Hi Dave,

You should be able to filter the description using this filter:

add_filter( 'tribe_ical_feed_item', 'filter_ical_item', 10, 2 );
function filter_ical_item( $item, $eventPost ) {
$item[] = 'DESCRIPTION:' . str_replace( ',','\,', $description );
return $item;
}

Does that help?

– Jonah

[Dave]

Hi Jonah –
That looks like something that could help. Please forgive my ignorance, though – where would I put that? And how would it change the ics?

[Jonah]

Hi Dave,

You would add that to your theme’s functions.php file. It would change the ics by filtering the item and allowing you to do whatever you want with the description.

– Jonah

[Dave]

Ok – I understand now. I added this to my functions.php. This, however, it now adds an additional description the .ics (there are now 2 descriptions). How can I have this description replace the original, instead of adding to it?

add_filter( ‘tribe_ical_feed_item’, ‘filter_ical_item’, 10, 2 );
function filter_ical_item( $item, $eventPost ) {
$item[] = ‘DESCRIPTION:’ . get_the_excerpt();
return $item;
}

[Jonah]

Hey Dave,

Take a look at this, it might help: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/control-data-in-ical-feed/#post-29629 and https://gist.github.com/afragen/2649910

Does that help?

– Jonah

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