iCal Import Data Fail

[Scott]

I just purchased and used the event aggregator. I was excited to use the iCal import. However, the import did not pull the correct information, so I am left with a bunch of events that do not have the correct time and/or date. Can this be corrected? If so, how?

It would also be nice to be able to parse out some of the iCal data, so the events don’t have extra unneeded information. For instance, all the events were created with the following format: EVENT NAME: GROUP NAME. I don’t want the group name as part of the title.

If these issues cannot be fixed, the event aggregator will not allow me to avoid having to create events in two different systems and therefore will not be a helpful purchase.

[Hunter]

Hi Scott,

Thank you for your purchase and sorry to hear things aren’t going according to plan… yet! I know we have a logged bug reporting an issue with incorrect dates/times when importing events using Events Aggregator which is currently being worked on. Before I confirm your issues are related to the bug, can you please review our Testing for conflicts guide and reply back with your findings? Once I have that information, I’ll have a better answer for you. Please also include an .ics link you’re having issues with so I can test to see if I can reproduce the behavior.

In regards to the request to parse out iCal data, that might be an idea worth mentioning over at our UserVoice Feature Ideas page. One workaround I can think of would be to do an SQL query or download the .ics file first, open with a text editor, and remove the ‘GROUP NAME’ text using the find/replace tool.

I look forward to your response and getting the issues resolved so you can focus on gathering and promoting events. Thanks again and have a wonderful evening. Cheers!

[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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