Customize Google Calendar Import

[Casey Baker]

I want to import from various google calendars to EA. What fields in Google Calendar will map with fields in EA mainly venue (assuming “Where” in GCal), but what about Organizer (multiple), Category (I have multiple), Description.

Thanks!
Casey

[Barry]

Hi Casey!

The where field does indeed become the venue (note: it will become the name of the new venue) and the description simply becomes the event description.

With regards to categories and organizers, how are you setting these up in Google Calendar (while iCal – which is the format Google Calendar uses – supports these, I didn’t think GCal itself provided a means of setting them) – is there a sample event or feed you can share?

Thanks!

[Casey Baker]

GCal doesn’t have these fields but was hoping that there might be some trick to overcoming that shortfall.

[Barry]

The problem is that as they don’t support those fields, there’s a limit to what we can do on our side.

Certainly if you have control of the Google Calendar data you are importing for you could settle on a convention like having descriptions along these lines:

Usual description which will become the imported event description...

Organizer: Joe Schmoe
Categories: Party, Evening, Formal

With some custom dev work (and I’m afraid it’s the sort of task that goes beyond the scope of support offered here on the forums) you could parse the organizer and category data. However, this would certainly be bespoke functionality and it’s unlikely we would roll that into the plugin itself.

[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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