#_EVENTGCALLINK placeholder does not include city, state, or postcode

It already does, if your settings are correct! ??

Please check: Events > Settings > Formatting > Calendar > iCal Feed Settings >
iCal Location.
Default should be: #_LOCATIONNAME, #_LOCATIONFULLLINE, #_LOCATIONCOUNTRY

You can determine yourself what the iCal feed will contain. Personally, I have complete altered it with all kinds of custom info, as I use it for booking info and private tours (only me using the feed) ??

Patrick, thank you for pointing out this setting. My EM configuration does indeed include this iCal Location setting as you point out:
#_LOCATIONNAME, #_LOCATIONFULLLINE, #_LOCATIONCOUNTRY

On my site, URLs generated for both #_EVENTGCALURL and #_EVENTGCALLINK do not contain city, state, or postal code.

However, #_EVENTICALLINK creates an .ics file which does contain all data including city, state, and zip.

I’m guessing the code which generates the #_EVENTGCALURL and #_EVENTGCALLINK URLs is not working correctly with or perhaps ignoring the values in the iCal Location setting? Looks like only the Google Calendar placeholder output is affected.

Thank you.

I am able to test the values of placeholders and they appear to be correct, for example:

LOCATIONFULLLINE: 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA, 22003
LOCATIONNAME: George Mason Regional Library
LOCATIONADDRESS: 7001 Little River Turnpike
LOCATIONTOWN: Annandale
LOCATIONSTATE: VA
LOCATIONPOSTCODE: 22003

If I change the value of iCal Location to something like this, it has no effect on the output of the GCAL placeholders: city, state, and postcode are still not generated.
#_LOCATIONNAME, #_LOCATIONADDRESS, #_LOCATIONTOWN, #_LOCATIONSTATE, #_LOCATIONPOSTCODE

This appears to be a bug. Any response from Events Manager support?

Thank you.

I haven’t heard from the support team. (I’m using a free version of program so I don’t know how to get in touch with them.)

we tried #_EVENTGCALLINK with single events page format and seems working fine; can I Know what is your current EM version?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by angelo_nwl.

Hello, and thank you for the reply. We are running EM 5.9.5 on WP 5.2.3.

The #_EVENTGCALLINK placeholder does work. However, it does not contain values for:
– City/Town
– State/Country
– Postcode
– Region

For example, here are the values for the following placeholders for a test event. Notice that the contents of the .ICS file generated with #_EVENTICALLINK do contain City, State, and Postal code. However, the links generated with #_EVENTGCALLINK and #_EVENTGCALURL do not contain City, State, and Postal code.

#_EVENTGCALLINK Value:
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=Arlington+Library+Test+Event&dates=20200101T100000/20200101T101500&details=&location=Arlington+Central+Library%2C+1015+N+Quincy+St%2C+United+States&trp=false&sprop=https%3A%2F%2Fvnps.org%2Fpotowmack%2Fevents%2Farlington-library-test-event%2F&sprop=name:Potowmack&ctz=America%2FNew_York

#_EVENTGCALURL Value:
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=Arlington+Library+Test+Event&dates=20200101T100000/20200101T101500&details=&location=Arlington+Central+Library%2C+1015+N+Quincy+St%2C+United+States&trp=false&sprop=https%3A%2F%2Fvnps.org%2Fpotowmack%2Fevents%2Farlington-library-test-event%2F&sprop=name:Potowmack&ctz=America%2FNew_York

#_EVENTICALLINK Contents of generated .ICS file:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//5.95//EN
TZID:America/New_York
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:[email protected]
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200101T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200101T101500
DTSTAMP:20190906T133903Z
URL:https://vnps.org/potowmack/events/arlington-library-test-event/
SUMMARY:Arlington Library Test Event
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:Arlington Central Library\, 1015 N Quincy St\, Arlington\, VA\, 22
 201\, United States
GEO:38.8837948;-77.10728970000002
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1015 N Quincy St\, Arlingto
 n\, VA\, 22201\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Arlington Centra
 l Library:geo:38.8837948,-77.10728970000002
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20191103T010000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR

I tried the link below and seems to be working fine on my google calendar ?

https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=Arlington+Library+Test+Event&dates=20200101T100000/20200101T101500&details=&location=Arlington+Central+Library%2C+1015+N+Quincy+St%2C+United+States&trp=false&sprop=https%3A%2F%2Fvnps.org%2Fpotowmack%2Fevents%2Farlington-library-test-event%2F&sprop=name:Potowmack&ctz=America%2FNew_York

Yes, it works. But the generated link does not contain values for city, state, and postal code which are in the original event. Therefore, the Google Calendar item

is missing

these values.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by gb24.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by gb24.

Bumping this topic in hopes that @angelo_nwl will see my reply from a few weeks ago:

Yes, it works. But the generated link does not contain values for city, state, and postal code which are in the original event. Therefore, the Google Calendar item

is missing
these values.

@gb24 I think I see this too and sorry for the delayed reply… I do see that it shows a location but missing some information in the middle.

Next update will solve this, which should be out in the next week or so.

@netweblogic, thank you!

Thank you for resolving this in the 5.9.7 release!

5.9.7
- fixed google calendar add-to link not including location town/zip/state

Sorry, I’m not sure how to create a new post.

The #_EVENTWEBCALURL placeholder doesn’t seem to be working for me. It just reads “Webcal” with no hyperlink or anything when sent to my email in a Confirmed Booking Email.