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How to prevent iCal bookings being sent back to original source

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If you want to prevent iCal bookings, which you have received, to be contained in the exported iCal feed we are sending, you need to exclude them from the feed.

Please note:
If they are not excluded,  a situation might arise were a loop is created where iCal bookings are being continually cancelled and newly imported.

  1. Go to Integrations > Admin tools > iCall Feeds > select the tab Individual properties.
  2. Select the option Exclude iCal bookings at the top of the page.

The change is automatically saved and the page refreshed.
By clicking this option the iCal feed URL will be amened to exclude iCal bookings. It will change form e.g.

https://api.supercontrol.co.uk/ical/3C0B2C973AFDC30D/property/20A24E2478FAB0C7/ical.ics

to

https://api.supercontrol.co.uk/ical/3C0B2C973AFDC30D/property/20A24E2478FAB0C7/ical.ics?ExcludeBookings=ical

The parameter ?ExcludeBookings=ical will be added to the end of the URL.

As the iCal feed URL has been amended the URL used by the receiving 3rd party or channel needs to be either exchanged or amended.
In order to do that you can either:

  1. copy the amended URL and paste it again into the receiving 3rd party or channel iCal import option
  2. amend the already existing iCal feed in the 3rd party or channel import option by added ?ExcludeBookings=ical to the end of the existing URL.

Please note:
Every time you leave the page where the option to exclude iCal bookings has been selected, it will revert back the selection and become unticked again.

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