Import Events

[orgspring]

I see your sample csv file structure for importing, but I noticed it doesn’t address things like recurrence.

How do you recommend setting recurrence during an import of multiple events with csv?

Thanks.

Craig

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

The CSV importer is a relatively new feature and it “belongs” to The Events Calendar, our core plugin, which does not itself support recurrence. It’s quite possible that Events Calendar PRO will extend and enhance it’s capabilities in some future release but we’re not quite there just yet.

Please do consider posting requests for enhancements like this one over on our UserVoice page (and you can simply upvote any suitable existing requests you find and want to support) as that’s the best way to get a request on our radar and ensure other members of the community can add their support/comments.

Thanks!

[orgspring]

Thanks Barry.
Let me ask a follow up, i often use WP All Import Pro, which can import to custom fields, taxonomies, etc.
What field would I be looking for if I wanted to import into recurrence?
I’m guessing recurrence itself is boolean, but I’m wondering if you have a list of the object and its internal names. If they’re handled as custom fields or meta, I can probably import to them.
Thanks.

[Barry]

Hi orgspring,

The best way to build a picture of how it all works is to set up a test event (that recurs a number of times) and inspect it in the database – essentially though there is a post for each instance – one parent post plus one or more child posts, all of the same post_type.

The “flag” used to indicate that an event is part of a recurring chain lives in the post meta table and is named _EventRecurrence which contains an amount of (serialized) information about the recurrence pattern.

Does that help here?

[orgspring]

Yes, Barry that helps. thanks.
I knew i’d have to dig through the DB, just wasn’t sure where to start looking.
Thanks again.

[Barry]

No problem, happy to help 🙂

At this point I’ll go ahead and close the thread, but if we can help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed and one of the team will be only too happy to assist.

Thanks again!

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