Event Aggregator from a Feed – overwriting and notificaitons?

[Sam]

Wanting to use a Feed from KAMAR calendar to sync with public website calendar.

If items are scheduled to import – how do they affect items that already exist with information that has been modified? For example, with KAMAR an event may have the Title, Location, From and To Dates and Times, and possibly Details (Description). Once in the website calendar, if the Title or Description is altered, will that information be overwritten if a scheduled import recognises a change in KAMAR to an event date and re-imports? Note that the website event item may have images and rich text editing applied or added.

Or will only the altered information be updated i.e. Date?

Or will it import it as a new item?

Will the scheduled import automatically import any new items?

Will the scheduled import recognise if an event has been deleted from KAMAR (the Feed) and remove from the website?

The website calendar also has more items than the Feed, for example, Event Categories i.e. “Sport”. Featured Image, Location that is a venue with google map address, Event Cost etc. How are these handled?

Also, can events be imported in a draft state so that they can be edited as needed and published?

[Brendan]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the email. Imported items will be added to the calendar. Any existing events will remain. Our aggregator will not know if your KAMAR event is the same so you may have duplicate events that you would need to manually go and delete.

So basically to answer all of the questions, imported events are new events not in relation or synch with your current KAMAR setup.

Hope that helps answering your questions!

Thanks
Brendan

[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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