Preview gives "Your preview doesn't have any records to import." (ICS & Google)

[Rodrigo Torres]

Hi, After running into the lack of CSV recurring import, I am trying to set up an import of an .ics file.
I am only at the stage of creating an .ics file and testing that I can import it manually.

Then I created .ics files in different ways:
Through a converter at http://manas.tungare.name/software/csv-to-ical/
From scratch using the example from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
By saving an iCal export from The Event Calendar
By adding an event from The Event Calendar to Google Calendar and then exporting from Google Calendar

I deleted all events, all organizers and all venues from TEC so that I would know the ICS import worked.

In trying to import ALL of the above I am getting “Your preview doesn’t have any records to import.”

I will post urls to all of the imports in a private message.

[Rodrigo Torres]

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[Rodrigo Torres]

To clarify, the .ics files I was trying to import with Import Origin “ICS File” and the Google Calendar with Import Origin of “Google Calendar”

[Cliff]

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[Rodrigo Torres]

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[Cliff]

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[Rodrigo Torres]

That’s a refine field, if I leave that empty why won’t it just find any events in the file?

[Cliff]

As previously stated,

By default, the “Date” field is today’s date.

I believe this is done because most people do not want to import past events from a source. And if you do want to import past events from a source, you likely know the date of the oldest event and can enter a past date to override this behavior.

If you feel strongly about this Date field’s functionality, you could request this as an enhancement (or maybe search to see if the idea was already posted by someone else) at our plugins’ UserVoice page.

This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can.

If you post it / find it, feel free to link to it from here in case anyone comes across this forum thread in the future.

[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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