[Geoff]

Hi @friendsofmttam,

So sorry for the trouble here!

 

What you describe is the default behavior of the plugin: once you import an event via iCal Importer and then delete it the system stores a “note” so that deleted events are not re-imported (as this would be the desired behavior for most cases and for automatic imports as well).

To delete saved “deleted events notes”

Add this snippet to your theme functions.php file and re-load the page (it will run once per page-load) until the message is shown, after that remove or comment the script:

/* Deletes 50 posts per page load*/
$posts = get_posts( array( 'numberposts' => 50, 'post_type' =>'deleted_event') );
if (!empty($posts)) {
foreach ($posts as $post) {
wp_delete_post( $post->ID, true);
}
} else {
echo 'Done deleting!';
}


To prevent “deleted events notes” from being created in the future

Add this other snippet to modify this default behavior:

/*
* Prevents iCal importer from saving a copy of "deleted" events
*/
function tribe_ical_dont_save_deleted () {
$ical_importer = Tribe__Events__Ical_Importer__Main::instance();
remove_action( 'before_delete_post', array( $ical_importer, 'deletedEventSave' ) );
}
add_action( 'wp_loaded', 'tribe_ical_dont_save_deleted' );


Please let me know if you get the events to show again after using the snippets.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Mike and thanks for getting in touch!

These are great questions.

I believe Events Manager allows you to export your events as a CSV file. If that is the case, then we you re-import them to The Events Calendar using the built-in CSV Importer. You may need to match the exported fields in the spreadsheet with column headings that The Events Calendar can recognize, but we have a tutorial that should help you get started.

I’m afraid that Facebook Events does not actually sync with Facebook. It will import events from a Facebook page into WordPress but not the other way around. Once an event has been imported, the information will not be updated if the event has been updated on Facebook.

That said, we are in the process of releasing a new product called Event Aggregator that will solve this and allow you to not only import events from Facebook (among other sources), but keep the information synced up between both sources. You can read up a little more on Event Aggregator and we hope to release it within the next couple of months, if all goes according to plan. 🙂

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know.

Cheers,
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Rob and thanks for getting in touch!

Yes, iCal Importer is definitely able to import events from Mac’s Calendar app.

In Mac’s app, there is a “Sharing Settings” option if you right-click on a calendar. Select the option to make the calendar public and that will provide you with a URL that iCal Importer can use to import events from the Mac app into The Events Calendar.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Anand,

Great questions.

I’m afraid there is no supported feature in The Events Calendar to create a program lineup. You can, however, add multiple “organizers” to an event and that will list all of the associated organizers to an event on the event post (screenshot). In turn, you can also rename “organizers” to something else, like speakers, using a snippet like this one.

Member networking is also something that isn’t supported by the plugin right out of the box. Event Tickets Plus does allow you to display a list of people attending the same event on the event post, but nothing as far as folks being able to message or contact one another.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Don, hope you had a great weekend!

There actually is a link, but it’s to the source of the event rather than the event itself. So, for example, if an event was imported from your Facebook page, then The Events Calendar will display a link back to your Facebook page rather than the specific event.

Here’s a screenshot of an event I imported from the Hollywood Bowl Facebook page and you can see where the link back to that page is.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Alexandre,

That’s a neat idea, though I’m afraid that neither The Events Calendar nor Event Tickets have a feature to generate certificates.

Events Calendar PRO does have a feature that allows you to create custom fields for events. You could create a PDF certificate in advance, upload it, then add it to the custom field and modify the event template so that only logged in users who have completed a course can view the custom field. It takes a little bit of custom work, but that might be a way to work around it.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know.

Cheers,
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Steve, I see my last reply was marked as the correct answer. I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please do let us know if any other questions come up and we’d be more than happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi there, I see my first reply was marked as the correct answer. I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please do let us know if any other questions come up and we’d be more than happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Robin, I see my last reply was marked as the correct answer. I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please do let us know if any other questions come up and we’d be more than happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Mandy,

Oh gosh, so sorry I missed that detail in your original post!

I just installed the helper plugin and was unable to get the same error notice using the same setup — default WordPress Twenty Sixteen theme and not other installed plugins, except for The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO, Community Events, Filter Bar and the helper plugin.

It looks like those are warning errors rather than fatal errors. Do you, by chance, have WP Debug enabled on your site? If so, you will want to disable that and that will hide the warnings.

Thanks!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Jeanette, hope you had a great weekend!

That’s exactly correct — the CSV importer in The Events Calendar will not import attendee meta. I think what the other thread was trying to accomplish was to import orders into WooCommerce rather than manually creating them and there is a tool specific to WooCommerce to help with that. That way, you could theoretically import the ticket product from The Events Calendar and map orders to those tickets via WooCommerce. Again, I think that’s not quite what we’re looking for here.

So if I have a saved fieldset of a text box, drop down, and radio button and I’ve saved it as “Event 1 Fieldset” how would I add that to the RSVP or Ticket? Is there an import option for that?

That’s a great question and something I really wish the CSV importer was capable of importing saved fieldsets but I’m afraid it is not. I’m actually very surprised that isn’t an existing ticket in our feature request forum, though I would highly recommend adding it since I can certainly see how it would be extremely helpful to have.

Definitely let me know if you have additional questions here and I’d be happy to continue helping as best I can.

Thanks,
Geoff

[Geoff]

Awesome! No inconvenience at all — I’m just so glad to hear all is working!

Thanks so much for following up to let me know and I hope you had a great weekend. Let us know if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hmm, interesting. The dropdown seems to be working well for me and differently from what you’re seeing:

I checked the browser console as well and did not see any JS errors or other conflicts.

That makes me wonder if there isn’t something else that might be at play. My test site is a default WordPress installation with nothing but The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO and Restrict Widgets installed. As a test, will you please follow the steps outlined in this guide. It will help us narrow down if there are any other conflicts and, if so, where they are.

Let’s try that and see what we find.

Thanks!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Jeannette and thanks for following up!

Yes! There definitely is a way to use the CSV importer for tickets. Here is a list of all the fields that can be imported in the file.

The key is to make sure that any events, organizers and venues are imported/created first to ensure that the tickets have something to attach themselves to.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Boris, thanks for clarifying!

Interesting. When I try embedding a single event with the “Hide from event listings” option set, it does not embed at all. Here’s a screenshot of what I see where the top URL is the failed embed of a hidden event and the bottom is a non-hidden event, and this is how we would expect it to behave.

I’m interested to see why the title is still embedding for you. I see you noted having tried the following:

• Deactivated all other plugins? Yes
• Switched to a default theme? Yes

Did you notice a difference in those conditions? How about when you switch to a default WordPress theme and deactivate all other non-Modern Tribe plugins? That should give you the same result I see if the conditions match and we can see where the conflict is from there.

Thanks!
Geoff

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