Submitted by Michel Böhm on 06/06/2019 - 22:12.
Satellite 4

Hallo everyone,

recently we set up a new section with the automated facebook events importer, using this tutorial (https://helpcenter.esn.org/tutorial/facebook-events-satellite)

The first part in facebook went well, but in the Satellite part we encountered a rather severe problem. In the process of mapping (satellite part, step 9 in the tutorial) we're missing a few options in the dropdown.

The tutorial for example lists Start date > Date: Start as one of the pairs necessary. but the dropdown does not list that option. (picture)

I then searched for ways to solve this and compared the section's settings with those of other sections that also use the facebook import. All of them, even the section in question, have the same moduls activated and share the same version of satellite.  (See here for the picture of the activated moduls)

Does anyone know where else those options in the mapping dropdown come from? And why some options are missing? 

Answers

Submitted by Michel Böhm on

Dear Marco,

even though import of events from facebook might not be possible anymore due to GDPR-regulations, sections still have want to import their events from a source outside of their website (this is an observation I gathered from talks during our last NP). Is it maybe possible to import events from a shared google calender into the events or calendar function of the websites? if so, do you know if there's a tutorial for this out there?

Thank you in advance,

Michel

Submitted by Michel Böhm on

I know of the first sentence, but still, the tutorial still works because it's still possible to obtain the necessary information from facebook. Just recently I provided another section with it and all went smoothly. 

Submitted by Marco von Frieling on

Hello Michael,

unfortunately I have to point you to the very first sentence of the tutorial you've mentioned:

"Due to EU GDPR, Facebook has disabled this function and the app that is created can no longer be used as is for this purpose. This means this tutorial is no longer useful."

Furthermore, Facebook really enjoys to change things in their APIs without notice. Taking this all together, the tutorial is kinda outdated.