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Hi George,
As it stands right now, we simply have no use of the software so I have requested a refund.
Thanks for the follow up.
OysteinAfter looking closer at this issue and the implications it has for us, it pretty much renders our $349 investment in The Events Calendar & plugins useless.
You are assuming that once a calendar event is created by someone you have no control over, it will never be changed. In my world, this is not how it works.Here is what we planned using your software for:
– Creating a hub for the concert activities with around 50-60 artists affiliated with our company worldwide
– Daily import data from these artists individual iCAL calendars (Google Calendar etc) and put it all together in one company profiled calendar
– Make this searchable for fans that wants to attend their eventsHere is what will happen with the current behavior of ICAL importer:
– Deleted events by the artist will not be deleted in the hub. Instead they will stick, and potentially make audience show up on non existing concerts.
– When a concert is moved to another day, or even another time of the day, it will create duplicates creating confusion. What is the correct entry, the fans will ask.
– There is no way for our company administrator to know which event to delete after a duplicate is created and even if it was, it would take too much of this persons time to chase duplicates.
– Even if we just had 5 artists, this would be too time consuming to maintain with the current behavior. We might as well send event details on email for the web-admin to enter himself.Can we ask the artists to log in and register their own concerts in our WP backend instead of using ICAL importer?
No. Most artists are using Google Calendar already, connected to their individual website, so asking them to double register the events in the WP backend is not an option.In addition to these limitations, we have also encountered issues with multi day events, time zone import and a couple of google map issues. These are currently under investigation by TEC.
If we shall be able to use this software, ICAL importer needs to improve. A lot, and fast.
Hi and thanks for clarifying. I am disappointed though.
I’ve ran extensive test on one of your main competitors in WP event management, I won’t mention name out of courtesy, but their software does iCAL import the right way:
– Moves events when they are moved on the source. Different date or time of day. No duplicates created.
– Deletes events when deleted on source. Again, no duplicates.
Because of other considerations I’m using TEC, but it is REALLY about time that iCal import starts getting smarter !In most cases, your app seems to be able to determine the exact location (long + lat) based upon the location info in the imported ICAL.
That means that for those particular venues you know the exact coordinates.
From this information, it is possible to do a reversed geocode lookup and find the address: Street, number, city, zip and country.
http://www.latlong.net/Show-Latitude-Longitude.html
Example:
If you managed to implement this in the future, it would save much work filling in venue adresses on imported venues.I should mention that I refer to the “Show Google Map” setting on Event in this case, not Venue.
The Venue setting seems to stick.By the way – any idea why I don’t receive any updates on reply on this forum? Notify on follow-up is set to Yes?
I received one email on a case March 13, but nothing on todays activity. I haven’t changed a thing on my end.
