{"id":1226574,"date":"2017-01-30T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-custom-fields-during-a-scheduled-import\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:00:45","slug":"how-to-preserve-custom-fields-during-a-scheduled-import","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-custom-fields-during-a-scheduled-import\/","title":{"rendered":"How to preserve custom fields during a scheduled import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased Event Aggregator to import a Google Calendar. The import ran fine. I then created a Custom Field using the Additional Field option (Settings &#8211; Additional Fields tab). I put a value in this field for an event that came through from the importer. At the next scheduled import, I noticed that this field had been cleared out.<\/p>\n<p>I have this option enabled in the Settings &#8211; Import fields: Preserve the most recent change in each event field, whether that change occurred on my site or at the original source.<\/p>\n<p>I assumed this would keep the value in my custom field, but it didn&#8217;t. Is this a bug, or expected functionality?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Bryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1226574","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>How to preserve custom fields during a scheduled import -<\/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\/how-to-preserve-custom-fields-during-a-scheduled-import\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to preserve custom fields during a scheduled import -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I recently purchased Event Aggregator to import a Google Calendar. 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