{"id":1228,"date":"2024-08-07T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2024-08-07T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T10:11:54","slug":"ical-reservations-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/ical-reservations-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Hostex Not Reading My iCal Reservations?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. iCal Data Has Not Updated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hostex reads the iCal link twice an hour to fetch updated data. If a new reservation was made less than half an hour ago, it may not appear yet. Please wait until the next reading cycle for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Special Event Marking in iCal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Most platforms mark reservations in their iCal calendars as&nbsp;<code><em><strong>\/Reserved<\/strong><\/em><\/code>, which Hostex recognizes by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if your iCal does not use this standard marking method, Hostex will not automatically identify it as a reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can enable Flexible Recognition Mode by adding&nbsp;<code><em><strong>&amp;hostex_sync_mode=lax<\/strong><\/em><\/code>&nbsp;at the end of your iCal link. This will allow Hostex to identify all events in that iCal link as reservations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p><p>Original link:<br><code><em>https:\/\/example.com\/ical?id=12345<\/em><\/code><\/p><p>Modified link:<br><code><em>https:\/\/example.com\/ical?id=12345&amp;hostex_sync_mode=lax<\/em><\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-hostex-support-center wp-block-embed-hostex-support-center\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PMOk0rjqh4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/ical\/\">How Do I Import Calendars to Hostex via iCal?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How Do I Import Calendars to Hostex via iCal?&#8221; &#8212; Hostex Support Center\" src=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/ical\/embed\/#?secret=0Oom2UDPMB#?secret=PMOk0rjqh4\" data-secret=\"PMOk0rjqh4\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. iCal Data Has Not Updated Hostex reads the iCal link twice an hour to fetch updated data. If a new reservation was made less than half an hour ago, it may not appear yet. Please wait until the next reading cycle for updates. 2. Special Event Marking in iCal Most platforms mark reservations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connected-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}