{"id":1336508,"date":"2017-08-16T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-difference-between-ics-file-that-lives-at-a-url-and-icalendar\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:41:12","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-ics-file-that-lives-at-a-url-and-icalendar","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-difference-between-ics-file-that-lives-at-a-url-and-icalendar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between ICS File that lives at a URL and ICalendar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I created a .ics file with one event, one venue and one organizer.<br \/>\nI uploaded the ICS file to the WP Media Library.<br \/>\nI tested importing it using the ICS File option in Event Aggregator.<br \/>\nThe test was successful, creating one Event, one Venue, and one Organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Since uploading a .ics file to the Media Library  creates a url, I decided to tested using that as the feed for an ICalendar import (since I&#8217;d like to automate this process and have it run on its own).<\/p>\n<p>To test, I first deleted the Event, the Venue and the Organizer previously created. Then I set up the ICalendar import to run a One-Time Import.<\/p>\n<p>The test succeeded in creating the Event, but it did not create the Venue or the Organizer. Mind you, this is the exact same file that had just created all 3. <\/p>\n<p>Am I missing something?<br \/>\nIs there some magic to an ICalendar feed that&#8217;s more than just an .ics file at a URL?<br \/>\nOr is this a limitation? or a bug? Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p>I was going to include system information but ran into a problem with an empty Help screen (logged separate forum post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1336508","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>What is the difference between ICS File that lives at a URL and ICalendar? -<\/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\/what-is-the-difference-between-ics-file-that-lives-at-a-url-and-icalendar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the difference between ICS File that lives at a URL and ICalendar? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I created a .ics file with one event, one venue and one organizer. 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