Managing venues and organizers

[Colin Carmichael]

I have over 400 venues and over 300 organizers. I know that there are many duplicates in both of those tables — but I don’t see an easy way to manage duplicates and other data quality issues. Is there a way to enable the Advanced Post Manager for venues and organizers? That would at least make it easier to see the problems.

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi Colin,

Thanks so much for reaching out!

As a first step, you can merge duplicate venues and organizers by going to Events Settings<General<Merge Duplicates.  Of course, before doing this, it is always advised to create a backup of your database.

You can enable Advanced Post Manager for venues and organizers.  Here is more information on how to configure that: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/filter-and-sort-events-with-advanced-post-manager/

Let me know how it goes and if you have any other questions along the way!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[Colin Carmichael]

Unfortunately, I don’t see a Merge Duplicates option on my General Settings
page. Also, there’s nothing in that KB article about how to enable APM on
the venue and organizer pages…

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi Colin,

It seems that there is a bug where the Merge Duplicates button does not always show.  We do not currently have an ETA on when this will be fixed, however you will be noticed when the fix is ready.

Here’s a code snippet to override this option from your database https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/dublicate-venues/#post-1253363, which should make the button appear again.

In order to search by organizers/venues, you can go to your Events page and add Organizer and Venue filters.  This may help you to see what you are looking for.

I hope this helps, let me know how it goes!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[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

[Nico]

Hey,

Happy to share with you that a new maintenance release (for the Week of 22th January 2018) is out, including a fix for this issue.

Find out more about this release → https://theeventscalendar.com/maintenance-release-for-the-week-of-22-january-2018/

Please update the plugins and let us know if the fix works for your site,
Best,
Nico

[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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