iCal Importer Questions

[Greg]

So a few questions to make sure this will do what we need it to.

1) Does this keep a calendar in sync? Here is what I mean by that. We have a calendar for a schools athletic teams with games and practices. As we add things to that calendar does the iCal Importer keep bringing in the events when they are added to the other calendar? What about the reverse? What if something is deleted from the feed, would it delete from the events calendar?

2) Does this work well with Google Calendar? How does it handle venue?

Thanks for your help.

[Cliff]

Hi Greg. Thanks for your detailed questions and your past business.

iCal Importer can definitely be setup to continually check a single iCal link/feed and import the new events. However, for changes to events previously imported, you’ll probably be interested in this functionality: http://cl.ly/1s2z1I0O2f2m

Note that deleting and replacing (i.e. re-importing) will lose your customizations that you made to that event post-import (the last time you imported).

For more info about, check out our Running a Saved Recurring Import KB article.

Yes, it can handle feeds from Google Calendar.

Regarding Venues, #12 reads:

A note regarding venues: If you’re importing events with venue information attached, there are limitations to how the data is saved on import. Specifically, venue addresses will need to be manually added to the event in order for it to show in map view.

However, I believe there is some Venue Matching logic. For example, if you previously imported an event with the same Venue title, it’ll match to the existing Venue in your WordPress install.

You might already know that we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

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