adding events to external calendar from email
When I send event emails and invitations I want to give people the option to add the event to their own calendar. The instructions in HELP say to append the event URL with "/export."
However, this doesn't seem to work. First of all, when I append the /export to the event URL in the body of my email, the whole URL is not clickable as one single URL. When I click on the "export" part of it, it does allow me to download a .ics file, but that is not my calendar application - I use Google calendar. Others use Apple, etc. I want users to be able to add the event to their Google calendar directly from my email invitation. Please upgrade WA to enable this feature.
In the meantime we have been using a third-party app to allow users to register for our Zoom events because Wild Apricot doesn't allow users to add the event to their Google calendar. Zoom does. If we can get this functionality working we'll be able to allow people to register for our events thru Wild Apricot.
Anonymous
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The issue was fixed in the 7.23 version.
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Michael
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Is there a way to use this with
{event_url} -
The fix of an issue with the /export link will be part of the next release version 7.23, in August.
Katya Tyukina
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MPNA
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This is a major problem with Wild Apricot. How can you have an events function without including an "Add to my calendar" link for people??? This is so frustrating. Previously that /export worked, but it does not any longer. When i looked in Help (which is very difficult to find about this subject) it says that that appears when people "register." Almost all our events are non-registered.
Current issue on June 29 -- it is now a month and still not fixed? and yet you're raising our rates again.
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Anonymous
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I was using the event URL + export successfully for months, but it stopped working without notice and now I've had to scramble to change confirmation emails which had a hyperlink to this on the phrase "Click Here to Add to Your Calendar". Agree with the other comment that a macro to add event to calendar would be a great help!
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Jorgen commented
This is exactly what I want to do as well. I have tried to use {event_url}/export in the 'edit HTML' in the templates, but it gets cleaned up.. which is pretty annoying. I have tried adding /export now and that worked for me... so having say something like {event_export_url} as a macro tag to create that export link would be great.. would solve our problem as I really want our users to be able to click a link to generate the calendar invite and save it to their calendars...
