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[CHARLIE]

I purchased the iCal Importer yesterday. I thought it was going to be an easy add on to use, however, it has been the most cumbersome plugin add on I’ve ever used and @ $49 for the plugin, disappointment is the nicest thing I can say. It appears that this is a huge issue because there is post after post of so many people running into the same issue. I increased all php memory limits, followed all possible solutions, but to no avail this plugin has cost me a day and a half of work and I’ve gotten nowhere.

I am using Google Calendar as the ical source and here is the ical url : https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/stelijahokc%40gmail.com/private-0573510b7d6b72026633df8e72acc673/basic.ics

Here is the javascript console log information:
JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1load-scripts.php:9:542
Error: Permission denied to access property “toString”
handleMouseoverEvent()
edit.php:42
[Learn More]edit.php:42:5
TribeImporterIcal.loadEvents failedimport-form.js:597:5
Object { readyState: 4, getResponseHeader: .ajax/w.getResponseHeader(), getAllResponseHeaders: .ajax/w.getAllResponseHeaders(), setRequestHeader: .ajax/w.setRequestHeader(), overrideMimeType: .ajax/w.overrideMimeType(), statusCode: .ajax/w.statusCode(), abort: .ajax/w.abort(), state: .Deferred/d.state(), always: .Deferred/d.always(), then: .Deferred/d.then(), 12 more… }import-form.js:598:5
Error: Permission denied to access property “toString”
[Learn More]edit.php:42:5
Error: Permission denied to access property “toString”
[Learn More]edit.php:42:5
Error: Permission denied to access property “toString”
[Learn More]edit.php:42:5

I have also pasted my system info in the appropriate field on the form.

[Nico]

Hey Charlie,

Thanks for reaching out to us and sorry to hear about this not so great first experience with iCal importer 🙁 I’ll help you figuring out what’s happening here 🙂

First of all let me say I just tried this in my local test site and I could successfully import some random events from the feed. So not sure if this might be a conflict or a temporal Google Calendar issue. Before following the testing steps I’ll outline below, please try this again so we can discard any temporal Google Calendar issues.

I see you marked as this has been tested for conflicts (Testing for conflicts guide). Was there any difference in the error you got? If you didn’t test this out please do so, this way we can see if this is a problem in our plugin or a conflict with the theme or other installed plugins. Also, can you try downloading the feed to your computer (right click save as in the feed link) and importing it with the ‘.ics file’, instead of the ‘iCal URL’ option?

One last thing, we do have a known bug regarding the import of recurring events which we are working on to find a solution soon. Other than that the plugin should work as expected!

Sorry once again for this rough start with our plugins,
Please let me know about it,
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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