Field Mapping with google calendar

[Andrew]

Hi,

I’ve just purchased the events aggregator.

I may have missed something obvious but I was expecting to be able to map the field imported fields to what the events calendar uses the same way as with a CSV import.

The reason for this is we have hundreds of categories so having the ability to bulk import is essential however not being able to map any fields greatly reduces the functionality of the product.

for example, as categories are not supported my plan was to enter the category into the description field on google and map that field to the category on the events calendar, however, this doesn’t seem possible?

I did have a quick look into using an open source PHP calendar that i would be able to add these custom field to but again this is useless unless im able to map that field to the category in the events calendar itself.

Hopefully your able to offer a solution?

thanks
Jon

[Andras]

Hello Andrew and welcome to the forums!

If I understand correctly, you are importing from a Google calendar.

Unfortunately field mapping for Google Cal import is not a feature of our plugin. Google Calendar has clearly defined fields for events, which match with the fields in The Events Calendar e.g. the description field.

When you are doing an import though, you can specify a category to which the imported events should be assigned to. I understand that this doesn’t solve the full-bulk importing challenge, it should make it easier nonetheless.

Another workaround would be getting an export of the Google Cal feed, turning it into a CSV file, then import it as a CSV where you can already map the different columns.

I hope this explains and helps a bit.

A question: would you have only one category for each event in the description field? Or more?

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Cheers,
Andras

[Andrew]

Hey,

Thanks for your reply, it doesn’t look like this plugin is for me then sadly 🙁

for your question, yes there would only be one category in the description field

Cheers
Jon

[Andras]

Hey Jon,

If there would be only one category name in the description field and nothing else, then it could be doable with a snippet.

It would be possible to write a bit of code that ‘listens’ for an event being created (by Event Aggregator) via the tribe_aggregator_before_insert_event filter hook – this also lets them manipulate the event data before it is written to the database. So you could potentially use that as a springboard.

Does this help?

Andras

[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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