Losing all content formatting on ics import

[Landon]

It looks like I am losing line breaks and anchor tags when importing. The line breaks are very important as it completely demolishes readability replacing them with the letter “n”. Let me know what you need to troubleshoot.

[Landon]

Well, I deleted all events, categories, tags, venues, and organizers and now ics files are not importing at all. And I get the data malformed js error when trying to import via webcal url. So I do not have an example url anymore. Let me know what you need.

[George]

Hey @landon,

I’m not sure why the importing stopped working; that file should still work. But putting aside those issues for now just to address your first questions about formatting:

The .ics file format itself is actually super restrictive about what sort of characters and content are “valid” for the format. This is something that we find just as frustrating as our customers, because it severely limits the type of content that can be exported/imported in the format – line breaks and HTML link tags are just two examples of things not really permitted within the .ics file format.

So there are inherent limitations dictated by the format itself.

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To come back to your newfound problems with getting importing to even work, I’m curious about the “malformed JS” error you receive – if you are getting this upon trying to import a URL that begins with webcal://, does anything improve if you simply remove the webcal:// characters from the front of the URL?

Thank you,
George

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