Facebook Events

[Cindy]

Hello,

I’m looking at adding the Facebook Importer but have a few questions. I’ve poked around your website for the answers but either could not find them or I was not clear about the answers.

1. Can the events that come over from FB be set to pending? From a screen shot that shows settings it appears I can.

2. Wish to verify that categories can’t be preset by FB site/events. I.E. Carolyn Myss ( https://www.facebook.com/Caroline-Myss-201192805715/events ) would always have a category of medical intuitive at my site. I saw a posting that makes me think this can’t be done automatically, so I would need to do this after the events are imported in. This is ok as long as the events can be moved to “Pending”.

3. Assuming but want to verify that it will not import in events that are already added manually. If I add event ABC manually, does the plugin see that an event by this person on these dates already exists if I have it set to automatically import?

4. Please verify: Imported events are manually or automatically created as entries in The Events Calendar. I think this means that automatically means it will go into my Pending section and manually means I have to go in and click the ones I want. Guessing this from the screen shots showing ‘Off the Grid”

5. For my venues I only list the city/state… not the address. I don’t care if it brings this over since I have removed the Learn more that takes a user to the next page that shows that info, but I want to make sure this is not create an issue.

6. What info does it pick up for the description? All the info that the event organizer has added? Those can be really long from the events I’m adding so I only take what I think is most important. Or does it just grab the info up to the point that it says see more…?

7. Do you know of a site that is actively using this add on that I can check out?

Big picture on my process so you can see if there is other info I should be aware of:
1. I find events and add data to Google spreadsheet. I have to use Google docs because Excel captures symbols that causes import issues.
2. Download a CSV file for Events, Organizers and Venues
3. Import Organizers (Name of teacher or speaker) and Venues (city/state) to be published
4. Import Events (which includes categories and descriptions) as Pending so I can do a few tweaks and then I publish them.

Kind regards,

Cindy

[Brian]

Hi Cindy,

Thanks for the interest in Facebook Events I can help answer your questions.

1. Can the events that come over from FB be set to pending? From a screen shot that shows settings it appears I can.

Yes you can set them to draft, pending, or publish

2. Wish to verify that categories can’t be preset by FB site/events. I.E. Carolyn Myss ( https://www.facebook.com/Caroline-Myss-201192805715/events ) would always have a category of medical intuitive at my site. I saw a posting that makes me think this can’t be done automatically, so I would need to do this after the events are imported in. This is ok as long as the events can be moved to “Pending”.

We do not import any categories from Facebook so you could add them to the Pending Events.

3. Assuming but want to verify that it will not import in events that are already added manually. If I add event ABC manually, does the plugin see that an event by this person on these dates already exists if I have it set to automatically import?

It will detect if manually imported and not try to automatically import.

4. Please verify: Imported events are manually or automatically created as entries in The Events Calendar. I think this means that automatically means it will go into my Pending section and manually means I have to go in and click the ones I want. Guessing this from the screen shots showing ‘Off the Grid”

All events are imported to become Event Calendar Events based on the setting above(draft, pending, etc)

5. For my venues I only list the city/state… not the address. I don’t care if it brings this over since I have removed the Learn more that takes a user to the next page that shows that info, but I want to make sure this is not create an issue.

I do not think it should create a problem.

6. What info does it pick up for the description? All the info that the event organizer has added? Those can be really long from the events I’m adding so I only take what I think is most important. Or does it just grab the info up to the point that it says see more…?

It pulls in the entire description there is no feature to change that.

7. Do you know of a site that is actively using this add on that I can check out?

I do not have any to share. The events would look exactly the same as non Facebook Events on the site.

That process looks good you are doing for the CSV imports.

And check out the New User Primer for a rundown of all the settings as well:

http://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/new-user-primer-facebook-events/

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks

[Cindy]

Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for the reply. This sounds promising.

Happy Holidays!

Cindy

[Brian]

Great, glad it helps, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket, but if you need help on this or something else please post a new ticket.

Thanks!

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