Cross referencing imported events with existing venues

[erionmedia]

I see options for importing CSV files containing events and locations (venues) and they both appear to work great on my installation.

It doesn’t look like though that when an event is imported, even if it has a venue name that already exists in the database, that the imported event gets its venue/location cross-referenced.

IE: I just imported about 26 events, most of which had venue names that were venues already in the Events plugin. But I still had to go through each individually and reassign venues to each event.

Is there a better way to do that so if an imported event is taking place at a venue that’s already been created it gets assigned to it?

[Casey D]

Hello erionmedia,

Thanks for contacting us, sorry you are having these troubles!

I’d like to able to reproduce the issue, to better troubleshoot it. Could you send us your .csv to [email protected]? Feel free to add more info regarding which venues aren’t catching, etc.

Does this make sense? Let me know if I can explain anything else!

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

[erionmedia]

Hi Casey,

thanks for the response. I just tried sending those import csv files as attachments by email to [email protected] but I got the following automated reply:

Thanks for your follow-up. Unfortunately, our forum does not allow reply by email. Please visit the forum link in the original notification email and post your reply in the thread on the tri.be website. We’ll be able to assist you further from there.

[Casey D]

Hello erionmedia,

Sorry, you shouldn’t be getting that response, I’m not sure why you are.

Would you mind creating a paste at a service like http://pastie.org/? You can set it to private if the information is critical.

Our system doesn’t handle imported code and data well, otherwise I’d just have you upload it here, sorry!

After talking with a dev it seems like you should not have to manually link the venues, but we’re not entirely sure if that is a fully supported feature, or a bug that happened along the way. If I’m able to troubleshoot with your data I can come up with an actual answer.

Sorry for the slow response!

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

[erionmedia]

I just moved the csv files to a dropbox folder and shared access with [email protected]. Hopefully you can also access them at this link https://www.dropbox.com/sh/id4jue7k7umnpa3/AAAZSmCavykeKUy3pk2CzrbXa

[Casey D]

Thanks erionmedia,

I tried replicating it, but unfortunately (?) it worked ok. I imported the Venues first, then imported the Events. The Venues were attached to the Events with no problem.

 

You might have a plugin conflict, that might be causing the disconnect? If you use this tutorial, you may be able to discover the source of the conflict.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!

Let me know if I can help with anything else.

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

[Casey D]

This reply is private.

[Brian]

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Hello erionmedia,

I am going to close this topic as we typically close threads if there is no activity after two weeks. Feel free to create a new thread and reference this one to save you time.

Thanks

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