Google Calendar event import; image not becoming featured image

LiveWhale
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Hey folks,

We have someone at our university who is importing events into LiveWhale through a Google Calendar feed. Their events in Google have images associated with them, and they want those images to become the featured image when they’re imported. Is there a way to do that automatically without manually changing the featured image for each imported event?

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Hi Rob,

Thanks – we currently only support importing ICAL event images using the ATTACH: syntax (more about supported ICAL fields here).

If you have an example feed/syntax you want us to check out, we can always consider adding more supported fields to our ICAL importer. I haven’t personally seen images in Google Calendar feeds (not sure how they come through in the Google-supplied ICAL, if at all), so it’s also possible sharing steps-to-reproduce could be useful as we look at things to consider for our roadmap. Thanks!

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Thanks, Karl. I’ll let you know if I have anything back for you.

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I’m also interested in doing this (: Did you have any luck Rob? I had something like this in my ics file from the shared google cal link

ATTACH;FILENAME=imagename.jpg;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://drive.google.com/o
pen?id=idstring

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Hi Hariklia,

Actually our client figured it out on their own; they said:

Based on the LiveWhale documentation, this feed includes extended custom fields and an image field for improved integration and display.

Feed URL: [snip]

The feed provides comprehensive event details—titles, times, descriptions, images, categories, tags, and contact information—and is fully compatible with LiveWhale’s linked calendar features.