[Neville Gibson]

Great. Thank you.

[Neville Gibson]

Thanks,
I can confirm that with the coordinates removed, this works properly.
This will work for us for now. Thank you.

In the future I’d love to see the import support the VVENUE spec, so we could actually import detailed venue info
https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-Venue-Draft/2-an-example.html

Thanks for your help.

Nev

[Neville Gibson]

Hi Jamie,
I am working with a bare wordpress install with the default theme. Nothing else has been modified. As I have already stated, the behaviour is the same on a second, up to date install of my client. Additionally, you confirmed that on your install, you had the same issue (only 5 venues were imported)

Will you please awknowledge that this issue exists and forward it on to someone who can fix it?

Thank you.

Nev

[Neville Gibson]

Hi Jamie,
I have downloaded the file as a .ics file and uploaded, and it doesn’t change the results with importing the venues.

I tried importing your test file, and it only found 1 event. It imported the venue, though it didn’t seem to import any venue details. By that, I mean that it just imported the venue name and address as the title of the venue, rather that populating any details into the relevant fields. Is that the expected behaviour? I can certainly live with the importer just importing the whole location field as a venue. It’s far from ideal, but at least the location of events shows up on the calendar. If the importer can’t consitently read the location field at all though, then it is effectively useless.

I have scoured all the location lines of the file I have exported and I can’t see any way in which they are different from the example you gave me. I have run my files through ical validators, and they come up without errors. Can you explain why the venue imports are only intermittently working? Out of 60 events, only importing 5 venues seems pretty disappointing.

I have paid for an event aggregator license, and our community invested heavily in developing these feeds with the anticipation of your product doing what it says it does. If it indeed cannot, it puts us in a very bad situation.

Can you please tell me specifically what is wrong with my formatting, or give me a timeline for a bug fix which will fix this issue?

Please don’t give me another “you could try this..” answer. You have a working test file that proves the issue exists. Your team should now have everything they need to diagnose what is going on here.

I am a PHP developer, sof you can point me to any relevant code within the system, I’d be happy to have a
look to see if I can diagnose what the issue might be.

Thank you for your attention to this important issue.

[Neville Gibson]

I Jamie,
I’m glad you got the import working. Did it import the venues for you?

I have tried again with a second wordpress installation running the latest version, and the results are the same for us: The import works, but venues are not imported, or at least not consistently. I get a few venues, but their addresses are not separated from their names, and none of the events seem to show up as linked to a venue.

I have looked for hours into the ical spec on how it should handle location info and I can’t find anything different from what I am doing.

Can you post an example .ics file or feed link, that works with the aggregator to properly import venue information? Then, I can copy the format from there.

Thanks

[Neville Gibson]

Hi Jamie,
The original link in the post works (for me at least)
The url you reposted doesn’t. It looks like you are mising the ? after .php

Can you try clicking the original link in the first post again?

Here it is again for convenience if it helps: https://cowichanculture.ca/feeds/vista.php?rsm=1&action=event_export_ical&htaccess_qs=&event_action=&event_id=&no_headers=1&excluded_only=&barebones_mode=1&date_range_start=&date_range_end=&key=ZipZap

And yes, icalendar one time import is what I am trying to do. Events work great, just not sure about how I am supposed to be passing in the venue details.

Nev

[Neville Gibson]

Sorry, the exclamation point at the end of the url was problematic. I’ve updated things so it isn’t needed. The existing url works now.

Thanks for your help.

Nev

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