{"id":1423404,"date":"2018-01-11T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-prepare-a-csv-file-for-import\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:06:28","slug":"how-to-prepare-a-csv-file-for-import","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-prepare-a-csv-file-for-import\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare a CSV file for import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m importing a hundreds of events using CSV, and I need to know what fields, and how to format them, so that it all works smoothly with Event Aggregator.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve run some tests.<\/p>\n<p>And my workflow right now is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Import Venues : so I can get the address details loaded on the site<\/li>\n<li>Import Organizers : to get the people in there<\/li>\n<li>Import Events : to get all the rest of the info<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so far, this information has matched up well, and everything is fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So my questions are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*How do I import the category field into my events? More specifically, what should the field value be, in order to match up with the categories I&#8217;ve created for events.<\/p>\n<p>*How do I toggle &#8220;show google map&#8221;, and &#8220;show google map link&#8221; for all my imported events. I see that this is one of the fields I&#8217;m able to import. So what should the field value on my spreadsheet be, before importing.<\/p>\n<p>*Any other CSV preparation considerations I should have before I ask the organization I&#8217;m working with to provide a CSV file?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much!<br \/>\nRyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1423404","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 prepare a CSV file for 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-prepare-a-csv-file-for-import\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to prepare a CSV file for import -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m importing a hundreds of events using CSV, and I need to know what fields, and how to format them, so that it all works smoothly with Event Aggregator. 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