iCal downloading new calendar instead of adding to existing calendar

[Danielle]

When you click any event, then click the iCal Import, the link is incorrect. It seems as though it opens up a whole new calendar instead of saving it to you personal calendar.

My client sent me the following text file below, iCal-TriveEventsCorrected and you can see the difference in the default way it’s importing. The first sample has this line: X-WR-CALNAME:SAWPA, which was removed and then it should work. However, I’m not sure where to put this info to get it to work correctly on the site- which file is this from and pasted into?

InCorrect——-
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//SAWPA//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:SAWPA
X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.sawpa.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for SAWPA
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130307
DTSTAMP:20120907T105214
CREATED:20120907T101102
LAST-MODIFIED:20120907T101226
UID:3525-1362528000-1362614400@http://www.sawpa.org
SUMMARY:ASCE California Infrastructure Symposium & Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:
URL:http://www.sawpa.org/event/asce-california-infrastructure-symposium-awards-ceremony/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Corrected———
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//SAWPA//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.sawpa.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for SAWPA
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130307
DTSTAMP:20120907T103037
CREATED:20120907T101102
LAST-MODIFIED:20120907T101226
UID:3525-1362528000-1362614400@http://www.sawpa.org
SUMMARY:ASCE California Infrastructure Symposium & Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:
URL:http://www.sawpa.org/event/asce-california-infrastructure-symposium-awards-ceremony/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

[Andy Fragen]

Danielle, the first thing to do is make sure you’re using the most current versions of The Events Calendar and The Events Calendar PRO. I can tell that you’re not as there should be a version number in the PRODID field.

After updating see if the problem exists.

[Andy Fragen]

When using iCal on MacOS newly imported events usually want to go into the top calendar. You should be able to change this as well. In iOS it asks what calendar you want to add it to.

If you subscribe to the calendar feed, the yes it will create a new calendar as this is a subscription and not adding an event to an existing calendar.

I tried clicking the ‘iCal Import’ link on the event above and in iOS it asked what calendar I wanted to add it to.

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