[Anthony D’Arco]

Brook,

Thank you for the explanation, and yes I think I understand how I want to approach this from a workflow stand point.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Brook,

Yeah, we have a dedicated servers, so that isn’t an issue. We should have the power. I think its just a matter of getting them in. I think my question is, for .ics imports you can schedule them. If I schedule it to weekly, does it try to reimport the whole thing again, or just what has been changed/updated?

For instance, I get all 5K events in. But then at the end of the day it tries to pull the calendar in again, and 5 events have been added/changed does it:

A. Try to pull all 5K
B. Pull the 5 new/changed events

Let me know.

[Anthony D’Arco]

Brook,

Yes that makes perfect sense. Do you know if there is a way to do this through Google Calendar? Or what if I changed the date range on the import to only do one month at a time?

Also, lets say I get all the events in. Will that cause problems if I try to get it to refresh on a schedule basis (ie. is it going to try to reimport all 5000 events every time or will it only update what’s been changed?)

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Thank you for following up, and I will keep an eye out for any updates. Thank you, and I’m sorry, I had to vent a little bit.

[Anthony D’Arco]

Brook,

I just wanted to follow up on this request to see how things were coming.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Nico,

I did not get any JS errors while importing. I also talked with the person who developed their calendar, I am now not showing any errors:

https://office.schoolrush.com/shareCalendariCal.action?schoolId=10015&token=ofovir82

I am not going to lie, I’m getting really concerned if this works. I currently have two tickets open for the iCal importer, and I have yet to get this working on any of my sites. I want to get to the bottom of this because this feature would be amazing (clearly, because I purchased the unlimited package).

Please let me know what I can do to help get this working. I can provide you as much access as you need my sites, but at this time, we’ve tried this on three installs with two different calendars to import, and have not had it work yet.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Nick, I have updated the plugins. I am not sure how to check the error console, and did you want me to reimport the feed as well?

[Anthony D’Arco]

Nico,

I did try playing with the timezones and there was no effect. Here is the system information (I thought I had included in that previous request, but it appears to be 5.5.9

http://aadbdstarter.wpengine.com
INSTALL KEYS
tribe-ical-importer = [removed by admin]
WORDPRESS VERSION
4.3.1
PHP VERSION
5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11
PLUGINS
Gravity Perks version 1.2.9 by David Smith(http://gravitywiz.com/)
Gravity Forms version 1.9.13 by rocketgenius(http://www.rocketgenius.com)
Advanced Custom Fields version 4.4.3 by Elliot Condon(http://www.elliotcondon.com/)
Envira Gallery version 1.3.6.3 by Thomas Griffin(http://thomasgriffinmedia.com)
Genesis Simple Edits version 2.1.1 by Nathan Rice(http://www.nathanrice.net/)
GravityView version 1.1 by Katz Web Services, Inc.(http://www.katzwebservices.com)
Soliloquy version 2.4.3.1 by Thomas Griffin(http://thomasgriffinmedia.com)
The Events Calendar: iCal Importer version 3.12 by Modern Tribe, Inc.(http://tri.be)
The Events Calendar version 3.12.1 by Modern Tribe, Inc.(http://m.tri.be/1x)
WordPress Importer version 0.6.1 by wordpressdotorg(http://wordpress.org/)
NETWORK PLUGINS
–
MU PLUGINS
Force Strong Passwords version 1.3.3 by Steve Taylor(http://sltaylor.co.uk)
ManageWP – Worker Loader by ManageWP(https://managewp.com)
Stop long comments version 0.0.4 by WPEngine(wpengine.com)
WP Engine System version 2.2.7 by WP Engine
THEME
Genesis
MULTISITE
–
SETTINGS
tribeEnableViews =
Array
(
[0] => list
[1] => month
[2] => day
)
schema-version = 3.12.1
recurring_events_are_hidden = hidden
previous_ecp_versions =
Array
(
[0] => 0
)
latest_ecp_version = 3.12.1
last-update-message = 3.12.1
donate-link =
postsPerPage = 10
liveFiltersUpdate = 1
showComments =
showEventsInMainLoop =
eventsSlug = events
singleEventSlug = event
multiDayCutoff = 00:00
defaultCurrencySymbol = $
reverseCurrencyPosition =
embedGoogleMaps = 1
embedGoogleMapsZoom = 10
debugEvents =
tribe_events_timezone_mode = site
tribe_events_timezones_show_zone = 1
earliest_date = 2015-09-23 05:00:00
latest_date = 2016-06-10 05:00:00
WORDPRESS TIMEZONE
America/Chicago
SERVER TIMEZONE
America/Chicago

[Anthony D’Arco]

This reply is private.

[Anthony D’Arco]

No worries, I am not so much disappointed as I am glad I have a much clearer understanding of how it works.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

George,

No I don’t really like making customizations to core files. I would love to see if the developer are interested in adding that to the plugin. I think it makes a ton of sense to be able to change the date range imported. ESPECIALLY because when it gets to the end of the month, it doesn’t automatically import that next months until the 1st of that month. (that is actually my biggest problem with the mini calendar — If there is an event on the 1st, and its the 30th, it won’t display).

Anyway, thank you for all your help, and let me know if this is something that might make it to core.

[Anthony D’Arco]

George,

Yes, your explanation makes perfect sense. I also think that there may not be an issue in the sense that it is doing what it is designed to do. Meaning if the intent is that it only ever updates one month at a time, then it does appear that it is working perfectly. Then, my question is, is there a way that it can keep a whole year (or calendar) in synch instead of just one month at a time? If not, is there any expectation that it ever will?

Let me know if that makes sense.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Sorry,

I totally missed this email. I’m a bit confused about what you are looking for. I am using iCal to subscribe to the Event Calendar. So, the Event Calendar is creating the ics file. Google and Outlook aren’t involved. I guess to clarify:

I opened iCal
I went to File -> Subscribe to New Calendar
I inserted this link: http://stanneschoolbarrington.org/events/ical

Make sense? It is worth noting (and this might just be a setting, but it has now imported all of September’s events). So, it appears to only be updating iCal one month at a time.

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Great questions. You’re right, it did import all 21 events were imported. So it appears as though there is a problem with the ical export because there should have been significantly more (there are a lot, like well over 100 on the calendar).

Thank you,
Anthony

[Anthony D’Arco]

Brian,

Thank you for the update; will this post be notified when their is a fix?

Thank you,
Anthony

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