Venue Addresses

[Michael]

Hello everyone,

New user here. I am attempting an import from another site running Events Calendar. I added the source like so: http://example.com/events?ical=1. It does import the events as well as the venue, but the address of the venue is not properly parsed. I did see someone else had that problem and you indicated that you weren’t able to parse the address because of the different ways it could be formatted, but surely EC->EC would work properly?

[Cliff]

Hi, Michael.

Our Event Aggregator solution does not have any special logic for importing from other sites running The Events Calendar.

However, I believe you’re requesting the same thing as one of our existing feature requests: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/16852576-let-users-import-events-from-other-ecp-installs-vi

Please do add your vote there.

This allows us to gauge interest in this particular feature request, which helps us prioritize our development efforts.

===

You’ll need to provide your actual iCal link for me to try to assist further with your reported issue of venues/addresses not coming through correctly.

Thank you.

[Michael]

Hi Cliff,

Thanks for the response. Here is the URL: https://ntxissa.org/events?ical=1.

Assuming this is simply not going to work, if I were to fix the venue and then import more events, would EA try to overwrite it? I see that there is a setting that speaks to this for events, but not venues.

[Cliff]

I imported the February event from that iCal link and it created this venue: https://cl.ly/0y132S3s0240

Then I manually edited the Venue to input the location data, like this: https://cl.ly/2E3S3L2c2u0n

Then I imported the March event from that iCal link. It said “Import complete! 1 new event was imported.” instead of stating it created a new Venue (like it did at the February import).

And I checked and the Venue kept its address details that I manually entered.

I hope this helps answer your question.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Michael]

Unfortunately, I have had a different experience.

I imported two events and saved them as pending. I then corrected the venue information, associated it with the events and saved them again. I went back and did another import and the events were not duplicated, but the venue reverted back to the wrong one.

I suspect this is because you didn’t update the title while I did. I put the name of the venue, which is not the address and it saw it as different.

This is really a bummer because it means I have to correct every event I import and that really takes away from the value of the plugin. Is there a fix planned or a workaround you can suggest?

Thanks again.

[Cliff]

Gotcha. That is unfortunately a known issue for which we do not have a fix at this time or expected in the short-term (next few weeks).

I’ll mark this ticket as Pending Fix, which means this thread should receive a reply once the applicable fix has been released. I cannot guarantee when it will be fixed as it’s in the development team’s hands now. They need to assign it, code it, test it, and schedule it for release.

I apologize for this issue and appreciate your understanding and patience.

[Michael]

I’d like to add that importing Meetup events has been better. While still not perfect, it does seem to be parsed more correctly.

I’m reminded of the way Mint handles corrections to vendor names. You can change something like ‘MCDON’ to ‘MacDonalds.’ Since the venue string should be the same with every import, it’s conceivable that you could put this and other minor variations into some kind of array that gets matched to a corrected venue (many to one mapping). So, after the first time importing, it gets corrected, then associates the next time with the corrected address.

[Cliff]

Thanks for that feedback, Michael. That may be the way our developers address this, but I don’t know if it will be.

 

[Victor]

Hi there!

Just wanted to share with you that a new Feature Release 4.5 of The Events Calendar is out, which includes a fix for this issue 🙂

Find out more about the release → https://theeventscalendar.com/release-the-events-calendar-4-5/

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

[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

[Author]

Posts