CSV import of recurring events w/ location ID

  • Resolved jugee

    (@jugee)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    if in my forum search I have missed finding previous answers to a similar question, I apologize. (And would be happy for a link to those. 🙂

    I am having trouble importing recurring events via CSV:
    My client gave me a couple of hundred recurring events (series) as CSV.
    They run a handful of locations, which are even more important than the individual events, so in Events Manager I I ticked “enable locations”, “require location” and “use dropdown for locations”, to connect events to the location ID. (So users can list events easily by location.)
    My working hypothesis so far was to import the recurring events series as draft, and manually bulk-edit set them to publish so that all the individual events will be created from these series.

    When I test export and import of a single recurring event series created in the backend with WP All Export and WP All Import, the import comes back broken, because apparently a lot of fields are not being read correctly. (Despite using the export csv for import without any edits.)

    When I use Ultimate CSV Importer, I am missing the functionality to connect a recurring event series to the ID of an event location.

    Would anyone of you have an idea how to solve this, or an alternate approach to try out?

    Thank you very much in advance!

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  • timrv

    (@timrv)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    If you’re using “WP All Export and WP All Import” I would suggest contacting them. We currently have a beta version of Import/Export with all the details can be found here: https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/importing-exporting/ However these are currently only available on Pro Versions.

    Any importers like WP All Export and WP All Import might work as EM are technically WP Custom Post Types. You would just need to map the correct fields.

    If you want to see all the custom fields, You could create a sample Event on backend then view it on frontend. Then from there make a small script on your theme to display all the custom fields. Sample is: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/dump-all-custom-fields/

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