Master Calendar in Multisite via iCal importer

[Virtual Expert]

You had suggested in a thread a while ago that it’s possible to use the iCal importer to aggregate sub-site calendars to the parent in a multisite setup. I have a few follow-up questions:
1. It would be nice to use the Recurring Import to configure only once and then just let it run untouched to keep the Master calendar up to date. But is it smart enough to not import the same event twice? What if the title was updated? And what about if an event is deleted in the source calendar that was previously imported?

2. Once a series of iCal feeds have been pulled in from sub-sites, I assume each entry will link back to the sub-site (?), but is there a way at the parent level to filter by sub-site calendar (i.e. filter by iCal feed)? It no such feature exists, could a filter by added programmatically?

[Nico]

Hi there Virtual Expert,

Thanks for getting in touch with us and for your interest in our products 🙂

1. It would be nice to use the Recurring Import to configure only once and then just let it run untouched to keep the Master calendar up to date. But is it smart enough to not import the same event twice? What if the title was updated? And what about if an event is deleted in the source calendar that was previously imported?

Yes, it’s smart enough to not re-import the same event twice. If the title is updated it will still recognize the event and act following what’s defined in the import settings (https://cloudup.com/cq7qDefwSgd). If the event is deleted in the source, it won’t be deleted in the site, but if it’s deleted in the site it won’t be re-imported.

2. Once a series of iCal feeds have been pulled in from sub-sites, I assume each entry will link back to the sub-site (?), but is there a way at the parent level to filter by sub-site calendar (i.e. filter by iCal feed)? It no such feature exists, could a filter by added programmatically?

No, once the event is imported it will be created in the WordPress site importing the feed and won’t link back to the subsite. I’m not sure about what you mean in the last part of the question. What you can do assign a particular category to the saved import, this way all events imported from a given feed can have a specific category. Once that’s configured you can use the Category Colors plugin to color code categories and add them to month view. Or use the Filter Bar add-on as well. Does this makes sense?

Please let me know if this answers your question,
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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