Import V1.4 Events Suggestion

by **arc_admin** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:54 pm

I imported my V1.4 events using 'Convert Legacy Events'. This converted my 6 categories as 6 ICAL subscriptions each containing one of my categories. This is not what I would have preferred.

Now, when I add a new event I have to choose an ICAL subscription (Education) and then a category (Education). I think you need to allow for importing into a single ICAL subscription while preserving the original V1.4 categories.

As an alternative, provide a procedure to merge ICAL subscriptions so I can achieve this goal if I wish. This could take the form of sample SQL to be used in phpMyadmin.

Cheers!
Ken

by **Geraint** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:50 am

I was thinking exactly the same thing last night.

I intend to change the migration to create one ics file and multiple categories.

In fact most people will only ever need one native ics file which then makes event administration far easier.

Geraint

by **Geraint** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:03 am

Just changed the code in SVN so that we have:

A single default native ICS file
We create such an ICS file automatically
We use this default ICS file for data migration

Geraint

by **arc_admin** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:11 pm

Outstanding. I'll refresh my test site back to prior to installation, and reinstall/re-import to test.

Thanks Geraint,
Ken

by **Geraint** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:17 pm

If you update the files you can clean out the relevant jevents data tables/content by cilcking the advanced tab and then delete ical tables. You won't need to reinstall then

Geraint