Importing Category from source calendar

[Robynn]

Hello,

I found the support thread that suggested an Office 365 calendar be imported using the “iCalendar” setting with the .ics url. This has worked for me, and I am very pleased!

However, I have worked hard to set all the categories on our Office 365 calendar, but I would LOVE to be able to bring those categories automatically into The Events Calendar plugin. Is there a way to extend the plug-in to do this? They are currently exactly the same (names of the categories, that is), but none of them came in on the import. Thanks in advance for your help!

[Cliff]

Hi, Kat. This should work as you’re wanting, and I don’t see any outstanding known bugs where it wouldn’t be working.

Does it work if you run it as a one-time import instead of a scheduled import? (Even if you just test one-time importing a single event, not the whole calendar.)

Depending on your findings, could you please send me a link to iCalendar URL that you’re importing via Event Aggregator so I can try it on my own site?

[Robynn]

Here is the .ics url that I’m using:

https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/[email protected]/91e6a8464a2049888fe5a226a49dddcd2101369106940745870/calendar.ics

I’m not sure how to import an individual event. Can you point me in the right direction, please? Thanks!

[Robynn]

Can someone help me with this, please?

[Jennifer]

Hi Kat,

Thanks for sending that link! I tested this out on my end, and no categories were being imported…however, if you take a look at the .ics file, there does not appear to be categories assigned to any of the events:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION:Dan Collins\n
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20180531T233000Z;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=TH;WKST=MO
EXDATE;TZID=Central Standard Time:20171123T183000
UID:[email protected]
SUMMARY:Cub Scouts
DTSTART;TZID=Central Standard Time:20171116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Central Standard Time:20171116T203000
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20180215T235913Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:1
LOCATION:WH (except when Fam Prom/MOPS/Day School have dates reserved)
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:1
X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
END:VEVENT

Could you please send me a link to the calendar (directly, not the iCalendar URL) that you are trying to import from so that I can take a look?

[Robynn]

Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for looking at that for me! The html link is here:

https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/[email protected]/91e6a8464a2049888fe5a226a49dddcd2101369106940745870/calendar.html

Please let me know if you need access to my Office 365 account to dig further.

[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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