{"id":1508757,"date":"2018-04-16T20:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T03:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/new-ea-user-several-questions\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:27:36","slug":"new-ea-user-several-questions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/new-ea-user-several-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"New EA user: several questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. I just purchased and installed EA earlier tonight. My website is structured heavily around integration with a Facebook page, and the recent Facebook API changes rendered my existing event import routine dead in the water.<\/p>\n<p>My organization&#8217;s Facebook page has an event section with a few hundred events in the region; about 35 are events that the page has created, and the rest have been created by other organizers and added to the page.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am new to EA, there are some behaviors that I&#8217;m not used to, but I don&#8217;t know if it is inherent to the plugin, or is just fallout from the Facebook API uproar:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event image import seems inconsistent:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve successfully imported about 200 future events from my Facebook page. Of all of the imports, only about 23 of the events imported images, and all of them were very far in the future. This isn&#8217;t a deal-breaker, but it is confusing. Any ideas why this is happening?<\/p>\n<p><strong>When using a Facebook page import, EA always displays my organization name as the Event Organizer,<\/strong> even if the imported event was created by a different Facebook entity. When using an Facebook profile iCal import, the organizer is left blank. The plugin I used before would create a new Event Organizer based on the name of the Facebook event host, but it seems EA uses the Facebook page name as the organizer for the entire import. I&#8217;m not sure if this inherent to EA, or if this an API issue, but I do want to find a fix for this. This could create ambiguity for site visitors about correct POCs for events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When importing from a Facebook page, EA leaves the venue blank if the Facebook event is a hand-typed address (not a tag).<\/strong> However, it does import the hand-typed values when importing from a personal Facebook iCal link. Without addresses, the map does not work as intended. I was able to manually update the missing venues by creating a one-time import of my personal Facebook event calendar iCal file, and then cross-referencing the events with blank venues, but there are some drawbacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s very time-consuming to reconcile the iCal and page imports by hand<\/li>\n<li>iCal import creates duplicate entries<\/li>\n<li>iCal import seems to extend only about 5 months into the future, even though I have about 10 months of events on my personal profile<\/li>\n<li>Overall, I&#8217;m very pleased with TEC and feel it adds a lot of value to my organization&#8217;s website. The Facebook integration is key to my existing strategy, and I&#8217;m hope to smooth it out with EA, but need a better understanding of what to reasonably expect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1508757","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>New EA user: several questions -<\/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\/new-ea-user-several-questions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New EA user: several questions -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello. I just purchased and installed EA earlier tonight. 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