Line breaks in event description lost in ical file for Outlook subscribers

[Matt]

I tried
$description = $eventPost->post_content;
…still no luck.

[Casey]

Matt,
Try this: $description = wpautop($eventPost->post_content);

Let me know if that fixes the issue.

[Matt]

Ok, I just noticed something I missed before that may be helpful. All proposed mods have completely removed all lines past the first paragraph break. I just set up an example event that should break after each line (skipping lines 4 and 6 just to see what would happen):

http://commons.lander.edu/kb/event/test-event/
— [event description begin] —
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

Line 5

Line 7
— [ event description end] —

Currently, if no change is made the core file, the event description displays like this:
— [event description begin] —
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 5 Line 7
— [ event description end] —

With the 1st and 2nd suggested mods by Andy, I get this:
— [event description begin] —
Line 1
— [ event description end] —

With Casey’s mod, I get this:
— [event description begin] —
Line 1
— [ event description end] —

Hope this helps.

[Matt]

…I wondered if that happen. The HTML tags were stripped from my last example. I’ll try that again:

With Casey’s mod, I get this:
— [event description begin] —
[open paragraph tag] Line 1 [break tag]
— [ event description end] —

[Daniel]

Hi Matt, I’m trying to debug this to add a fix in core.

Could you please add this .ics? It adds only an event (Oct 16), and let me know if the description is breaking correctly?

The url is: http://php52.tri.be/wp-content/iCal-TribeEvents.ics

Let me know. Thanks.

[Matt]

Daniel, yes, it appears to be breaking correctly:
http://d.pr/i/hZ6x

I tested as a single event import and as an event on a subscribed calendar.

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Thanks Matt. Now that we know a format that works for you, I’ll make the change in the plugins code for a future release.

[Matt]

Terrific, thank you.

[Casey]

I’m going to go ahead and mark this as closed. We can re-open if we need to.

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