[Jason]

Yes, I changed the false to true and it worked great. I was able to use the code to add the additional categories. Is this something that can be changed in the core code?

[Jason]

Hi Barry,
Sorry for the delay in responding. This is a test site that I’m playing around with in order to see if this will work for us. It is not deployed on a live site yet but this site should be the same setup as our live sites.

[Jason]

Hi Barry,
No, it doesn’t seem to help. Here’s the ical feed I’m trying to add:
http://wpengineplayground.wharton.upenn.edu/events/?ical=1

This works fine in outlook but not in google calendar. I see that your wpshindigs feed at http://wpshindig.com/events/?ical=1&tribe_display=month works and does import into google calendar.

I’ve done a lot of searching. One suggestion I came across was that robots.txt was blocking it. I made my robots.txt the same as yours as wpshindig and it still doesn’t work.

Any suggestions.

Thanks

[Jason]

Hi Geoff,
I’m not sure I follow you on the first answer. The feeds I’m talking about are recurring daily so there is no user interaction to import the feed. I’m trying to determine what I can expect when the recurring feed runs. If there is an update to an event that already came through in a previous feed what will the behaviour be? If the title, day/time, or location has changed will it treat that as a new event?

Thanks

[Jason]

Hi Geoff,
Interesting…so a few follow up questions. When it pulls a recurring ical feed how will it treat an event that has been updated? For instance if the event name has changed will it treat that as a new event or will it update the existing? If just the venue changes will it treat that as a new event or update the existing?

I would have hoped that there was some underlying ID that it was matching on so that it would know when there is an update to an event as opposed to a new event. I know that some ical feeds have a UID attribute with each event but you probably can’t depend on that I guess.

[Jason]

Ahh, ok I see what you mean now. This is how you would add a link to the ical feed from within the interface. I understand now that I can point folks desiring a feed directly at the ical URL (?ical=1) that I want to serve up. This is exactly what I was looking for. I’m a little confused as to what the feature request is asking for now.

However, I am having a bit of trouble with google calendar consuming the feed. My ical url would be:
http://wpengineplayground.wharton.upenn.edu/events/?ical=1&tribe_display=month

MS Outlook imports this fine. Google can’t import from this URL though. If I save the ics file that’s generated and put it on a webserver then google is able to import it just fine. Have you guys run into this? Any guidance?

Thanks

[Jason]

Could you point me in the right direction as far as what customizations I would need to make in order to re-use the existing export as a live feed?

[Jason]

Hi Geoff,
Actually I’m experiencing that it doesn’t treat the same event from 2 different feeds uniquely. So I have 2 feeds…1 for our MBA events…and 1 for our undergrad events.

MBA events feed: https://spike.wharton.upenn.edu/calendar/feeds.cfm?eventtag=1&v=1
UGR events feed: https://spike.wharton.upenn.edu/calendar/feeds.cfm?eventtag=2&v=1

They have the same domain but as you can see a query param pulls different events based on the eventtag. I setup 2 feeds one for each applying an MBA category to the first and a UGR category to the second. There are common events between the 2 feeds. For the events that are common between the 2 it does not pull in distinct events…it only pulls in 1 event. So it doesn’t seem to be considering events distinct dependent on the full URL of the ical URL. Is it only looking at the domain? What other fields does it look at to detect a duplicate (title, start date, etc)?

[Jason]

Also, could you clarify what type of value I should expect to see in this custom field:
_EventIcalSource

[Jason]

Hi Barry,
Thanks for the snippet…I’ll try it out. While a feature request for making the filter bar more configurable might be good I’d really rather have the ability to just add more than one category and tags and organizers to an ical/csv import. I think it’s this feature request: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/6943020-ical-importer-set-default-organizer-category-t

Thanks

[Jason]

Hi Barry,
I’m not sure I agree with this at all. You already have an ical export. If you are concerned with how other systems consume ical data you should be concerned about having an ical export as well. The ical feed should be exactly the same data as the export…just provided in a live http request so that people can subscribe to the event so they get an update to it when the venue changes or the event gets cancelled, etc. Many many calendaring solutions provide this and it’s critical (as you all have heard in the comments on this feature request) for many solutions. Even our custom calendar that we’ve coded that we are trying to replace has an ical feed. If we don’t provide a live feed on one of our calendars students might be going to events that have been cancelled, rescheduled, etc.

Releasing an ical feed should not be dependent on how other systems consume it. As long as the ical feed your system generates follows the icalendar standard (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545) it’s not your problem if another system doesn’t follow the standard when consuming. And I can tell you right now that the majority of calendar systems that folks are using to consume ical feeds do support the standard (iphone, google, exchange, etc) do follow the standard.

[Jason]

To answer your question I’m trying to figure out a way to apply multiple categories to an imported event. The ical importer unfortunately only allows one category and 0 other meta data (like tags). I’m trying to work around this to apply multiple categories to an imported event. When reading Brian’s responses here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/import-ics-auto-category-possible/ it made me think that if I had 2 import feeds setup that simply defined 2 different categories to apply an event that was in both feeds would get both categories applied. That doesn’t seem to be the case.

Nico’s suggested snippet does seem to imply that he thinks that the tribe_events_update_meta action does fire on import since that is what Dan was asking about. Could I get a confirmation on that?

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