{"id":234156,"date":"2014-06-18T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-single-event-import-file-creates-new-calendar\/"},"modified":"2014-06-20T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T12:49:06","slug":"ical-single-event-import-file-creates-new-calendar","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-single-event-import-file-creates-new-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"iCal single event import file creates new calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have ECP installed on a WordPress site for a client and they are having issues when trying to import an iCal file for a single event into Outlook. The import file creates a new calendar rather than importing the event into their existing calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The .ics file includes this line which looks to be the culprit:<br \/>\n&#8220;X-WR-CALDESC:Events for O-Ring&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked around the forums and there seems to be a workaround from a previous version of the plugin from 2012 &#8211; https:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-import-how-do-we-get-it-to-add-event-to-an-existing-calendar-in-outlook\/ &#8211; involving modifying the plugin files, but I wasn&#8217;t able to access the MDNW link in the thread to even try patching it (and am hoping not to have to refix it every update).<\/p>\n<p>Is there any other known workaround or snippet to add to the functions file to remove that line from the .ics file for single events?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-234156","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>iCal single event import file creates new calendar -<\/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\/ical-single-event-import-file-creates-new-calendar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"iCal single event import file creates new calendar -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have ECP installed on a WordPress site for a client and they are having issues when trying to import an iCal file for a single event into Outlook. 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