Facebook Import with Event Category…

[efromdc]

Can you help me alter the facebook importer so I can add a category slug name to the facebook event id, separated by comma, that categorizes itself on import?

Such as

180268542100000,seminars
180268542100001,networking

The result being that the import operates as normal but additionally categorizes itself into the corresponding slug category > http://url.com/events/seminars will display the event imported from 180268542100000
http://url.com/events/networking displays the event from 180268542100001 and the parent http://url.com/events/ of course displays them both…
Thanks!

[Barry]

I’m sorry @efromdc but that is definitely beyond what we can help you with here. Please do check out the following resources which might provide some level of help, and of course the WordPress Codex is going to be useful for something like this.

• Themer’s Guide
• Tutorials
• Technical Docs

Sorry we can’t offer up more on this one – but it would be great to see your final solution and share it with the community 🙂

[efromdc]

Hold on…beyond what you can do here?
Wait…since you already told me the field names here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/data-dictionary-database-fields-needed-for-csv-import/

And “event_category” is one of them…

Can’t you tell me the line number and php file that that sets the variable for the event id number as inputted? If so, I can probably parse the input and assign an event category from there…

[Barry]

Yes, I would say that is beyond what we can help you with.

Wait…since you already told me the field names here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/data-dictionary-database-fields-needed-for-csv-import/

And “event_category” is one of them…

So unless I misunderstood things, that question was in connection with the CSV import tool and it does indeed look for an event category field. Here though you are asking about modifying the Facebook importer and want to alter a number of behaviours there – and that’s sufficiently custom that we can’t help.

That said, if you think this is something that would be desirable to lots of users please do post a feature request explaining what you want to achieve and we’ll certainly consider it.

Thanks!

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