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I understand my options, thank you. I will simply close by asking that you carefully consider the possibilities for malicious action with this plugin, as well as reconsider making it a bit more customer friendly.
Hi Jaime,
I’m not proposing that they change the category; I am suggesting that my installation should not create a category from an import of an unauthenticated public calendar. And, yes, I can uncheck it, but it shouldn’t be happening in the first place. What happens if they create a hundred categories, or a thousand? What is the function behind category creation? What else could they execute on my site?
It is a public calendar. I know I can uncheck the category locally, but that requires an extra step that I sometimes forget. And I would humbly suggest that it’s probably not a good idea for an unauthenticated source to be able to create categories.
‘Monthly Chapter Meetings’ is selected when imported, as well as one or two others. The strange thing is that I don’t recall ever creating this tag.
Hi Jaime,
Here is the URL: https://ntxissa.org/events/?ical=1. The format is iCalendar.
Hi Jaime,
Everything seems to be working fine now. I’m not sure what the problem was, but I guess we’re all set. Thanks for your response.
Well, what do ya know. There was already a KB on this that I just didn’t find: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/genesis-theme-framework-integration/. The code provided there works perfectly.
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.
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.
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.
