ICalender feed and categories

[wigwamlocker_3000]

Hello!

I am wondering if it is possible to have event categories in iCalender feeds that the Aggregator can import into?

I get that at least the RFC mentions a CATEGORIES field, but don’t know if there are any implementations of this.

Would be great to know!

Thanks,

Matthias

[Hunter]

Matthias,

Welcome back! Forgive me if I’ve misunderstood your question, but when you import events using Events Aggregator, you should be presented the option to assign categories to events. (see screenshot below)

Please let me know if I’ve understood your question correctly and if not, please reply back with more details and I’ll do my best to help. Thanks for choosing PRO and have a good evening!

[wigwamlocker_3000]

Dear Hunter,

thanks for your reply. I am aware that I can add categories manually. When I use CSV I can have different categories for each event in the CSV file. I am wondering if I can do the same in an iCalendar feed with each VEVENT.

Example:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:123
TZID:Europe/Berlin
DTSTART:20171110T153000Z
DTEND:20171111T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20160824T144821Z
LOCATION:somewhere
ORGANIZER:someone
CATEGORIES:some category, some other category
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Thanks!

Philipp

[Hunter]

Philipp,

I believe you should be able to include categories using the format you’ve bolded in your response (more info here):

CATEGORIES:category,category2

If you haven’t already tried it, please do so and let me know how it works out for you. Thanks for reaching out and have a great afternoon. Cheers!

[wigwamlocker_3000]

Dear Hunter,

can confirm that this is not working, tried with http://seerosen.dev.wigwam.im/TagungenV10_modified.ics.

Does the Aggregator support this at all?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by wigwamlocker_3000.

[Hunter]

Hello,

Thank you for your patience. I attempted to import the .ics file provided and can confirm the categories are not being assigned to imported events. I’ve gone ahead and logged a bug documenting the issue and hopefully we get it included in the next maintenance release. We’ll keep you updated on our Release Notes and in the plugin changelogs.

Thanks again for being so patient while I did more research and testing and please let me know if you have any more questions or concerns in the mean time. 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

[Victor]

Hello Philipp!

Just wanted to share with you that a new maintenance release (for the Week of 18 September 2017) is out, including a fix for this issue.

You will now be able to import categories using the VEVENT format.

Learn more about this release → https://theeventscalendar.com/maintenance-release-week-18-september-2017/

Please update the plugins and see if the fix works for your site. Don’t hesitate to open a new topic if anything comes up.

Best,
Victor

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