[Leander Wattig]

Ah, now it worked. I’ve been too impatient since looking forward to working even more intensely with The Events Calendar. 🙂

Thanks,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

here you go: it always says “Import fehlgeschlagen”, German for “Import failed”.

An “letzter Import” (last import) mostly says “unknown”.

Best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

for example this import came through now – one of 2-3, hundreds of others failed: http://orbanism.com/event/barcamp-koeln-2017/

I can’t really discover a pattern since among the 500 there must be plenty of pages which have events coming up now. I checked a bit. For example this page’s import failed again and meanwhile it has many events coming up – as you can see with the attached screenshots:
“Lettrétage – das Literaturhaus in Berlin Kreuzberg” (https://www.facebook.com/pg/Lettretage/events/)
Same here:
– https://www.facebook.com/pg/literaturhausmuenchen/events/?ref=page_internal
– https://www.facebook.com/literaturhaus.hamburg/
(And many others.)

What I recognized when editing imported events now, that there are Zeros in fields of the phone number for example and in the data fields of the events organizers. This didn’t happen before.

I also looked into the forum. There seem to be many people having problems with the importer to there must really be something.

Thanks for your help, hoping for improvement.

Best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

Thank you so much – this works great. I adjusted it a little further and have it integrated now on orbanism.com which is cool because now there aren’t most venue and event organizer pages empty anymore. We curate the event picks so it’s even interesting afterwards.

Thanks and best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

I fully understand that you can’t provide custom coding but a hint into the structure would be great. I’m not a coder but tried to look into it and have no idea how to get past events out of the system at all. I found an old forum’s posting concerning that but the code seems to have changed.
(https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/upcoming-and-past-events-on-single-venue-page/ &
https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/display-past-events-on-organizers-page/)

Thanks so much
Leander

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Leander Wattig.

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

I have around 500 scheduled imports running, most of them daily – but ever since my start of using your plugins in March or so. It worked fine until a couple weeks ago and the number of daily imports of actual events was always far below 100.

Thanks,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

And thanks for your support!

“So could you please see if any of those failed imports you have come from Facebook sources with no upcoming events?”

I got many pages scheduled and almost no events coming in since weeks. There are definitely plenty of pages among them with newly scheduled events. One example you’ll find in the screenshots.

I’m not exceeding the limit – I wish I would be. 😉 It’s 3 of 100 as shown on the screenshot. The problem really is that nothing is coming in. I also updated all plugins, reconnected with Facebook and did all that. It’s more fundamental, it seems.

Hoping for progress and

best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

Thanks! Do you maybe have the line of code which I can use there then to get the past events into the venue’s and locations’ pages via template override?

Thanks and best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

Is this due to changes at Facebook or a problem of the plugin?

2 aspects:

A few scheduled daily imports do work, of around 500 maybe 2-3 which is weird. It’s also a problem of meetup so that’s another thing.
Yesterday it worked (as seen on the screenshot), other than that it doesn’t: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/content-marketing-tuesday/

This facebook page works funny enough (as seen on screenshot): https://www.facebook.com/buergerschaffenwissen/

And that’s the only old scheduled import where an event made it through during the last days: http://orbanism.com/event/seminar-praktisches-metadatenmanagement-vlb/ I published it just now so you can do tests.

And: I can’t newly schedule imports for pages which don’t have currently events coming up. So the whole feature doesn’t make sense in this case any more. And it used to work beforehand. That’s what used to be good about it that newly posted events of the pages automatically come into the system and I don’t have to check manually.

What’s the plan?

Best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Hi from Berlin,

same problem over here. The scheduled imports don’t work. Can you already tell when there will be a solution since it’s one of the core features of the calendar being up to date with current events?

Thanks and best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

Thanks, Victor.

The problem really seems to be that older scheduled daily or weekly imports of Facebook pages don’t work any more. They used to until a couple weeks ago. I testet again a bit. New scheduling for pages only works if they have currently events coming up. Otherwise it doesn’t which takes away most of the point of using it. Interestingly it’s the the same for meetup imports. Manually importing single events works if they are past events.

What kind of URLs do you need exactly?

I’m really hoping for a solution. Thanks for your dedication.

Best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

I found a solution with the help of the plugin “Easy Custom Auto Excerpt”. It allows me to use excerpts without blocking the Events Calendar.

Thanks for your support, Barry!

[Leander Wattig]

P.S.

Hmm. I added a new Facebook page as scheduled which got upcoming events, that worked. Older one still don’t work. And I can’t schedule Facebook pages which don’t have events upcoming.

[Leander Wattig]

Hi Victor,

Thanks so far! I tried it out as described by you but nothing changed.

I also tested this: Manually importing pages doesn’t work, manually importing single events does work. Does that help as a clue?

What else could be the cause?

Best,
Leander

[Leander Wattig]

I’m using the Make theme and activating the excerpt function there: https://thethemefoundry.com/wordpress-themes/make/

Thanks for your support!

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