{"id":1272386,"date":"2017-04-20T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/importing-recurring-events-with-html-in-description-and-custom-fields\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:46:15","slug":"importing-recurring-events-with-html-in-description-and-custom-fields","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/importing-recurring-events-with-html-in-description-and-custom-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing recurring events with html in description and custom fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to import recurring events to EC pro and need to preserve the html in the description as well as include custom fields. I have all the events with the html and custom fields laid out nicely in a CSV file.  Since EC can not import recurring events from a CSV, i converted the CSV into an ICS. However, ICS does not support html in the description, and the ICS export from the app i used excluded my custom fields.<\/p>\n<p>Can i import the ICS file, with just the title and date fields (including recurring) and i then import my CSV file w\/o the date info, but with the title and all the other fields including the description (w\/html) and custom fields?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1272386","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>Importing recurring events with html in description and custom fields -<\/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\/importing-recurring-events-with-html-in-description-and-custom-fields\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Importing recurring events with html in description and custom fields -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;d like to import recurring events to EC pro and need to preserve the html in the description as well as include custom fields. 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