{"id":1329474,"date":"2017-08-02T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/can-csv-or-another-import-handle-events-with-multiple-showtimes\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:02:26","slug":"can-csv-or-another-import-handle-events-with-multiple-showtimes","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/can-csv-or-another-import-handle-events-with-multiple-showtimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can CSV (or another) import handle events with multiple showtimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking to purchase event aggregator and i&#8217;ve built a CSV generation script around that goal, but i&#8217;ve got an issue.  My client has shows with multiple times &#8211; i&#8217;d like all the times to show up on the calendar but i would *not* like each one to appear as a separate event.  The reason for that is mostly cosmetics on the calendar but also our events source doesn&#8217;t have the flexibility to provide a lot of the dynamic content we want to &#8211; so we anticipate we&#8217;ll add extra event information to each event.  If we&#8217;ve got 20 showings of the same event, i don&#8217;t want to have to do the same work 20 times and have it show up as 20 different event entries!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a CSV import that works the way i&#8217;d rather it didn&#8217;t &#8211; so for &#8220;Super Excellent Funshow&#8221; with show times from mon-sat at 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm, that&#8217;s a total of 18 &#8220;Super Excellent Funshow&#8221; event rows in the CSV.  Is there a better way so that we have one &#8220;Super Excellent Funshow&#8221; event?  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1329474","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>Can CSV (or another) import handle events with multiple showtimes? -<\/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\/can-csv-or-another-import-handle-events-with-multiple-showtimes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can CSV (or another) import handle events with multiple showtimes? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m looking to purchase event aggregator and i&#8217;ve built a CSV generation script around that goal, but i&#8217;ve got an issue. 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