Import Facebook events for Community Users

[Keith]

I would like to follow up on this post.

The goal is to be able to import events from Facebook using the Facebook import, and then assign them to a Community Events user. This would allow Community Events users to modify events imported from their Facebook page.

Currently, that is not possible because the Facebook importer has to be run by an Admin, and all imported events are owned by that Admin.

As a test, ran an import as an Admin, then edited the event to change the Author from Admin to a Community Events user. I then logged on as the Community Event user. The event appeared in the list of “My Events” for the Community Event user. The Community Events user was able to edit the event as though it had been submitted in the normal way, through the front end.

I think adding this functionality into the import would be very useful. I realise that it would need some coding, but I think that coding would be very simple. All that would be needed would be to add the Community User name next to the Facebook page on the import screen. Like this:

Facebookpage1 CommunityUserX
Facebookpage2 CommunityUserY
Facebookpage3 CommunityUserZ

The code would simply need to change the author of the event from Admin to the relevant user when the import runs.

[George]

Hey @Keith,

Thanks for reaching out here! These are interesting issues, and I have two things to say in regards to your post here.

Unfortunately, the first thing worth noting is that all of the limitations and such that I elaborated on in that other thread still apply → https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/facebook-import-and-community-events/

So if you have any specific questions akin to what @Phil asked in that other thread, the answers to @Phil still apply.

The next thing I’d like to note is that your feedback here is interesting and much appreciated:

I think adding this functionality into the import would be very useful. I realise that it would need some coding, but I think that coding would be very simple. All that would be needed would be to add the Community User name next to the Facebook page on the import screen.

The code is, unfortunately, more complex than it seems to be able to get this working truly consistently and reliably; but the idea is interesting and worth vocalizing on our UserVoice page here → http://tribe.uservoice.com

Putting the idea there lets other users “vote” the idea up, which we take seriously and we often incorporate features from there into our plugins.

I recommend this because, at this time, there is no plan to include these features in either plugin; but if we see this idea has a lot of traction on UserVoice, that drastically increases the likelihood of us coding this into the plugin.

Thanks for your feedback @Keith!

Sincerely,
George

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