Excluding most group events from main, but auto-promoting some

LiveWhale
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Hi there! Our question is about setting up group events to be excluded/included to a ‘main’ calendar.

  1. We have a main calendar that has events posted directly to it
  2. We have campus calendars that should have most of their events not go to the main calendar, but the option to promote events to main

We came to to an idea with exclude_category that we then found described in another post. However, we also were interested in having certain events auto-promote from the campus calendars based on type or tag. Example: all events from the Undocumented Community Center on each campus should get added to the main calendar too.

The exclude_category approach means we have to remember to uncheck the box on these particular types of events, even though they should always be included. Are there any thoughts on how to make this happen automatically with tags or types?

Thanks,
Aria

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Hi Aria,

What if you were to add an ICAL feed to the Main Calendar group as a Linked Calendar, pulling only the events you want (by type, tag, group, etc.)?

You could add a feed like this:
https://events.smccd.edu/live/ical/events/tags/undocumented%20community%20center

That would bypass the normal LW process of suggesting, accepting, etc. and just add the events with that tag to the main calendar.

Do you think that would work?

Jason

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Hi Jason,

That thought occurred to us but we weren’t sure if it was the best idea since we’d been cautioned from using linked calendars internally during our initial setup. However since you suggested it now, this is the route we’re going and it seems like it’s working well (:

The only downside is that event summaries don’t appear on the main calendar feed when we pull them through a linked calendar. Not sure if there’s a fix for that?

Thanks!
Aria