Exclude event description from export

[Marcial]

Hi there
We have a lot of text in the event descriptions as well as two shortcodes. When exporting an event to a calendar like Outlook, it also copies the shortcodes. Thats not very pretty. For us, it would be fine if we could exclude everything in the textfield from the export, so it only exports the name, date and venue of the event.
Is that possible? I don’t think I missed something in the settings. Deleting one or two codes of PHP would be an accebtable solution for us (event tough its not update-save).
Thanks for the help!
Best,
Marcial

[Andras]

Hi Marcial,

Thanks for reaching out! Let me try to help you with this one. I might have a solution which you will not lose with an update. 🙂

Paste this code in your functions.php file (Appearance > Editor > choose functions.php on the right side):


function pos_ical_remove_description( $parts ) {
foreach ( $parts as &$single_part ) {
// We're only interested in modifying the description field
if ( 0 !== strpos( $single_part, 'DESCRIPTION' ) ) continue;
$single_part = "DESCRIPTION:";
}
return $parts;
}
add_filter( 'tribe_ical_feed_item', 'pos_ical_remove_description' );


This will basically make the description field empty, so it will not show up in the exported iCal file.

Let me know if this helps solve your problem!

Cheers,
Andras

[Marcial]

Hi Andras

Thank you for your solution. That works fine!

Best,
Marcial

[Geoff]

Excellent! Thanks for confirming that Marcial and please feel free to let us know if anything else pops up–we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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