{"id":1104008,"date":"2016-04-18T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/csv-import-is-overwriting-the-event-title-and-location\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:35:05","slug":"csv-import-is-overwriting-the-event-title-and-location","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/csv-import-is-overwriting-the-event-title-and-location\/","title":{"rendered":".csv import is overwriting the event title and location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and be as concise as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I am using Events Calendar to share events for a sports association. I have a calendar that is a consolidation of events for several teams, using category to filter the specific team. On any given night there could be events running at the same date\/time at different locations (see my attachment in the next message), for different teams usually practices. <\/p>\n<p>I know that category isn&#8217;t a value that ECP uses to verify uniqueness, so, in my UTF8 .csv file I concatenate the Category into the event title, knowing that the event title + date + time make it a unique entry. Here&#8217;s where it gets weird. No matter what the title, if the 2nd event has the same time\/date, it overwrites the first.  <\/p>\n<p>Example (shown with spaces for ease of reading)<\/p>\n<p>TITLE, Location, Start Date, Start Time, End Date, End Time<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nPeewee 3 COMP-Tryout\t,Bell Centennial Arena,18-Apr-16, 6:00 PM, 18-Apr-16, 7:30 PM ~ SLUG:  \/event\/tyke-3-Comp-Tryout\/<br \/>\nTyke 1 Practice, Johnny Leroux (Stittsville),\t18-Apr-16, 6:00 PM,\t 18-Apr-16, 7:30 PM  ~ SLUG:  \/event\/tyke-3-Comp-Tryout\/<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the above, the original entry becomes overwritten by the second in the import file &#8211; like it is ignoring the title all together on the second entry (even though it uses it to create the slug for the first).<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; to top it off, the location is changed to a location that isn&#8217;t one of the ones that is related to either of these 2 events as written in the import file.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1104008","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>.csv import is overwriting the event title and location -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/csv-import-is-overwriting-the-event-title-and-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\".csv import is overwriting the event title and location -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I&#8217;ll try and be as concise as possible \ud83d\ude42 I am using Events Calendar to share events for a sports association. 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