Import events but without having _EventVenueID

[Magdeburger Verlags- und]

Hi, we want to import events but don’t use your EVENTS Aggregator but another plugin called “WP All Import”. Everything works fine but we still have problems concerning venue. We only can choose the target field of your event-elementtype _EventVenueID but we don’t have the id of still existing venues in our import data. Do you have an approach how we can manage the import of an event with an existing venue without having the id? Maybe we could use other fields or a combination as identification? Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

[Jennifer]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out!

Unfortunately I think you will need the venue ID in order to associate an existing venue with the event…The venue information is actually stored as a separate entity from the event, and the only venue information stored on the event itself is the venue ID. If you look through the available fields in WP Import, _EventVenueID is the only venue field available. If you want to find the venue ID for an existing venue, you can go under Events > Venues and click on the venue – the ID will be in the URL (post=ID – see screenshot).

We are a bit limited in the amount of support that we can provide for third party plugins, but I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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