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Default view access on imported events

 
Jun 30, 2008 6:50pm
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I am trying (without success) to import items to my calendar so that their default view access is public. I found this related post while searching the forum:

“Regarding being defaulted to Public. Did you create a new Calendar during the import? If so, that calendar record inherits the settings you have defined Setup/My Settings/General page (check the ‘Default View access’ option there). If you have that setup to Public, anything that you create in Famundo will have ‘Public” as sharing level.”

I have double checked to make sure that the default view access option under my settings is set to public, but imported items are still created with an all staff access level. I also checked to make sure the view access for the calendar and the category were set to public.

How can I make my imported events default to public view access?

Thanks,
Eric
 
Jun 30, 2008 6:51pm
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the calendar is ambs.famundo.com
 
Jun 30, 2008 7:50pm
Avatar Cosmin Famundo Staff 171 post(s)

Hi Eric,

We’ll investigate and get back to you soon with an answer.

Cosmin
 
Jul 1, 2008 6:50am
Avatar Cosmin Famundo Staff 171 post(s)

Hi,

I had a look at your account and indeed it’s an issue with those events not being imported correctly. We should have a fix soon for this. We’ll let you know once it’s available.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Cosmin
 
Jul 2, 2008 3:59am
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Hi,

This issue is fixed now. Please remove your current events and try to import again.
The way the import works is all events that are marked private in the csv or ics file will be imported as private in Famundo, if they are marked as not private (or there is no mention of the security level at all) the Famundo default settings will be used.

I hope this is what you expected.
Please let us know if you run in further issues.

Regards,
Cosmin
 
Jul 7, 2008 1:31pm
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Thanks Cosmin. I will try again later today. I’ve been importing with CSV files and don’t remember seeing a column for privante/not private.

Do you know what the column heading and field values need to be in the CSV file in order to specify private/not private?

Thanks,
Eric
 
Jul 7, 2008 4:43pm
Avatar Cosmin Famundo Staff 171 post(s)

Hi Eric,

It depends a lot of the program you’re exporting it from as there is no standard way for CSV exports.
Most of the CSV files are following the Outlook format and there you can see a ‘Private’ column with ‘False’ and ‘True’ as value. Our import is detecting a few ‘known’ csv formats and we try to automatically do the mapping to our internal format.
If we can’t recognize a format the user will be prompted with a screen where he can do some mapping.

One more thing. CSV is a weaker method to export/import files as you can’t define recurrence using it. So if you have recurrent events they’ll come as one event. I recommend ICS files for these cases (it depends also if the application you’re exporting from supports ics exports)

HTH,
Cosmin
 
Jul 10, 2008 6:07pm
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This is working fine now. Thanks for your help.
 
Jul 10, 2008 6:32pm
Avatar Cosmin Famundo Staff 171 post(s)

Hi,

Cool! If you have further issues please let us know.

Cosmin

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