We are looking at adding another “linked” calendar via ical. The issue is, some of the events on that calendar may have already been created in LiveWhale. What will happen if the connected calendar pushes events that already exist in LiveWhale? Will there be two of the same events or is there a way to “de-dupe” on the import?
Thanks,
Kevin
Hey Kevin,
Great question—LiveWhale currently doesn’t do any de-duping across multiple Linked Calendars. Partly this is because there are cases where you might want the same event(s) listed in two separate groups, or with different types/tags applied, so we wouldn’t know programmatically which should be the correct owner or copy of each event. (If two events in the same linked calendar had conflicting UIDs, we would de-dupe those and just import one, but I realize that’s not what you’re asking about here.)
Like with most things, if the out-of-the-box behavior isn’t suiting your needs, almost all things are possible with custom modules (if you ran into a case where you needed de-duping and could specify what the ruleset should be for implementing that). Hope this helps!
Karl
Ok, thanks! I appreciate the help.