{"id":1339111,"date":"2017-08-23T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-hyperlinks-in-description-when-exporting-ical-event\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:30:46","slug":"how-to-preserve-hyperlinks-in-description-when-exporting-ical-event","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-hyperlinks-in-description-when-exporting-ical-event\/","title":{"rendered":"How to preserve hyperlinks in description when exporting iCal event?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! When exporting a single event to ical, we would like to preserve the html in the description solely to maintain hyperlinks in the description. I\u2019ve been searching the forums and thought this might be relevant, https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-html-code-in-explaining-text-for-additional-fields\/ but excerpts don\u2019t seem to apply to exported calendar events. Now I\u2019m sort of thing the ical format may not even support rich text. Note in the screenshot the lines below are initially hyperlinks on the site are now plain text in ical on the right. 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