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That’s really fantastic Geoff – thanks loads 🙂
Will test it out this evening and if I have any other issues then I’ll let you know, but expect it’ll work now. Appreciated & Happy Friday back ‘atcha!!
ChrisOk Thanks George,
So two of the issues I have reported are indeed bugs – I’d be grateful to know when they may be rolled out with an updated version please (estimate if an actual date isn’t possible)?
Also can we please keep this ticket open until these bugs are resolved as having to reference an old closed ticket that hasn’t been resolved is a faff.
Thanks,
ChrisOK thanks for that.
So the steps for it CERTAINLY to run are a little convoluted… and not to be depended on. In a case where my client updates their Google Calendar but they don’t visit the website (front end of admin) then when would the importer run?
ChrisHey George, thanks for the wp cron explanation – I had a fair idea of how that works before but great to have it clarified to such a degree.
A question re this then – if my client, for example, goes to their Google Calendar and then makes an update, then goes to the website Events page then will that (no matter what else is happening) force wp-cron job to do it’s work? Also just for the sake of clarification, is it the /events/ page that needs to be loaded for the schedule to work?
Thanks,
ChrisUPDATE
My client made some further changes to their Google calendar this morning and waited for half an hour (it is set to scheduled import every 30mins) yet 2hrs later it hadn’t seemed to have updated. I checked the history and indeed it looks like this:-Every 30 Minutes about 3 hours ago
Every 30 Minutes about 5 hours ago
Every 30 Minutes about 8 hours ago
Every 30 Minutes about 11 hours ago
Every 30 Minutes about 14 hours ago
Every 30 Minutes about 16 hours agoIs this something I need to hit my web hosting company about or is this also recognised as an issue?
ChrisPlease do investigate further George, I will keep in mind your offer of a refund, but I’d really like to have this working as it should – I look forward to your hopefully swift findings.
ChrisAAARRRGGGHHHH.
Now the scheduler isn’t even updating events at all. My client had an event that has had to be cancelled today. the scheduled import didn’t update it. when i ran the scheduled import manually import it didnt clock the changes. I have had to delete the scheduled import and run a one time import, which at least updated the calendar.
This is a real faff. I WANT to feel confident and use your products but it seems there are just issues on top of issues 🙁Thanks for your response. A couple of things.
1. I have been manually testing & so running a scheduled import prior to your note above.
However following your response I removed the scheduled import completely (obv leaving all the events that had previously been imported in place).
2. I also have the ‘Overwrite my event’ Update Authority setting set.On Google Calendar I changed a previously imported event END time to a different time, and then ran the one time import. It didn’t make a duplicate event (but then due to the bug that I reported in this thread it also doesn’t register the end time anyway). I then went back into Google Calendar and altered the start time. I ran another one time import and hey presto it duplicated the event. Worth also noting that in my global import settings The default post status for events’ is set to draft, as my client wishes to check new events before having them posted live. AS such the new (duplicate) event that was created was in the Drafts area of the Events list.
Attached is a screenshot of the import notification after I ran it.
For the time being I have re-added the scheduled import as this is a live site and my client needs it to be synched.
Chris
Ok , look forward to notification of the bug fix.
For the other issue I previously had it set to “Preserve the most recent change in each event field, whether that change occurred on my site or at the original source.” So I have changed that to “Overwrite my event with any changes from the original source”, tested it yet it still creates a new event (duplicate) when I change the times. If I just change other content such as the event name then it is OK though and updates the original event…
