Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
So after spending another day trying to manually delete repeated events from the Special Events category, I am so happy you have come to my rescue! Here is what I have learned through this process:
1. The duplication occurs when events on the Google Calendar are set up as repeating events or have the time set as All Day events so there is no official start or end time. For example, an event on Google Calendar reoccurs weekly (ie., a Sunday Brunch) or every other week (ie., Happy Hour). The Events Calendar doesn’t recognize repeating events and so it explodes and creates tons of duplicates.
Would upgrading to the PRO version help? I see you just released a new version with new capability. https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events
2. When a Reoccurring iCal feed updated, it pulled old events dating from 2008 and I noticed many of these events in the Google Calendar are set as repeated events without an end date (only they were stopped by the Admin of the Google Calendar at some point in the past so I didn’t see them). Events calendar would then regurgitate each event as a repeating event on a daily basis. Literally hundreds of duplicate events were created this way…
3. I think I found the reason the Dining Events calendar did not import in its entirety the second time after my first mass deletion. I read it here in the forum today #12: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/running-a-saved-recurring-import-with-the-ical-importer
Events that have been imported and deleted after import will not come back during future imports. I get why you do it, but with the duplication issue, I think this means I have to go back in and manually add Dining events. Perhaps reinstalling the entire plugin and starting again from scratch would help fix that issue?Hi,
To help I have taken screenshots with a few of the events side by side so you can see how the information from Google Calendar is not importing correctly and duplicating. If you would like to see them, please let me know where to send them.
Thanks,
AmieAlso, please note that in Google, the options they give for Timezones are based on country and time zone in the format of GMT (and there are other options if you are international). I have Eastern Time selected correctly. In the Events Calendar, I notice after an Event imports, it has a default value different from that so your plugin isn’t recognizing the time zone. Perhaps one of my settings I posted above is incorrect, however I don’t know how to know if it is or not. Going in and manually changing the time zone for each event is not what my client nor I want to do as there are too many events.
Thank you!
