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zcsiteadmin
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August 28, 2023 at 11:29 am
Hi,
We host a monthly series via webconference, but instead of creating 12 venues, we chose to use Advanced Custom Fields and created fields for the webconference url and call-in details.
Placing those details into our approval emails has worked fine, but we also want to put that information into the iCal calendar holds to make things simpler for our attendees. Is there a guide/template for doing this? Would the ACF Fields or EVENT_META fields be used in the code?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Tony
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August 28, 2023 at 3:39 pm
Hi there,
The iCal data is filtered through:
apply_filters('FHEE__EED_Ical__download_ics_file_ics_data', $ics_data, $datetime);
$ics_data is an array which EE loops over to output the values as ke => value pairs, the filter is passed the datetime so you have the event using:
$event = $datetime->event();
The event ID:
$EVT_ID = $event->ID();
With that you can pull in the ACF fields for your post if that’s what you are using 🙂
Does that help?
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zcsiteadmin
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August 29, 2023 at 12:07 pm
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Tony
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August 29, 2023 at 12:53 pm
There are a few problems with that code, it won’t work as is.
$EVT_ID is going to be a number so you can’t run methods on a number.
$ics_data[‘WEBEXCONF;VALUE=TEXT’] where are you getting that name for a field in the ical from?
You’re going to get a field with the name ‘WEBEXCONF;VALUE=TEXT’ and a URL as a value, but will whatever client you are using to open the iCAL know what that is?
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zcsiteadmin
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August 29, 2023 at 12:56 pm
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Tony
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August 29, 2023 at 1:32 pm
$ics_data['DESCRIPTION'] .= $webex; would append the $webex string to the end of the description.
Have you figured out how to pull the value from the custom field?
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zcsiteadmin
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August 29, 2023 at 2:36 pm
Through some manner of miracle, I’ve figured the rest out! Thanks so much for your help.
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Tony
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August 29, 2023 at 3:37 pm
Congrats, job well done and you’re most welcome 🙂
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