{"id":998172,"date":"2015-08-22T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-importer-display-of-vfreebusy-events\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:00:11","slug":"ical-importer-display-of-vfreebusy-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/ical-importer-display-of-vfreebusy-events\/","title":{"rendered":"iCal Importer &#8211; display of vFREEBUSY &#039;events&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<br \/>\nI am developing a WP vacation rental website. We have a third party booking system, which is generating one ics file (URL) for each rental unit to show the availability. We would like to have an availability calendar, for each rental unit, to simply display available\/rented time frames. 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In that case, would it be possible to use your Events Calendar to display &#8216;free\/busy&#8217; dates only, using the data that is imported via the iCal Importer? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-998172","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 Importer - display of vFREEBUSY &#039;events&#039; -<\/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-importer-display-of-vfreebusy-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"iCal Importer - display of vFREEBUSY &#039;events&#039; -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I am developing a WP vacation rental website. 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