Using community events with aggregate modules for events calendar pro

[Tony B]

Working on a new client project, they use google calendar(s) as their main calendar tool, however, they want all their calendars to be displayed nicely on a new wordpress site, so we wanted to use the Event Aggregator to pull in al lthe different calendars and have them filterable based on they calendar type.

They also however, want people to submit new calendar events via their website that they can approve and then get pushed to the appropriate google calendar. I’m concerned that if we use your community events module for this, that once they are approved and get pushed over to google calendar, that when event aggregator runs to pull in the new events, it’ll pull them in as duplicates.

Also, not sure if you have a good way to send new calendar events over to specific google calendars.

[Jennifer]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

When you schedule an import from a certain source (like a particular Google calendar), you have the option to automatically assign a category to all events from that source. With Filter Bar, you can allow users to filter events by that category on the front end, or alternatively you can use the category as a parameter in the tribe_events shortcode (a feature of Events Calendar Pro) to display calendar views for that category anywhere on your site.

Community Events does allow users to submit events from the front end, and you can choose the status that they are submitted into. This allows you the opportunity to review and edit the events before they are published. If one of these events is then pushed to a Google calendar that you are importing from, you are correct that a duplicate will be created. While Event Aggregator is able to avoid creating duplicates from the same source, it would have no way of knowing that an event created directly on the site was the same as one coming in from a Google calendar.

If all events that users submit are eventually going to wind up on a calendar that you’re importing from, you may instead want go ahead and add them to that calendar directly instead of publishing them on your site. This way, they will be added the next time the import runs, and no duplicates will be created.

Event Aggregator currently only imports events – it cannot push them out to other types of calendars. Events Calendar Pro does come with a few options for exporting events manually, which you can read more about here.

We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take any of our premium plugins for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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