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Hi Megan,

I think I am running into a similar situation. I am working on an event which is happening in different states. Each state will have the same sessions. There are a total of about 16 sessions. The only difference is that the sessions will have their own room numbers and location for each state. The content, the speaker all will be the same for all locations but only thing that is different is the room number and the place. The client's ask is that when the registrant registers for the event and clicks on the add to calendar option, they should be able to see the room number on their calendar. This is why we will have to duplicate sessions for each state. I was thinking of creating an admission item and adding the location and room number to it if possible then in the advanced settings adding all the sessions to each admission item. basically each admission item will represent each state! I hope this makes sense. I really don't want to duplicate sessions, because if I do that then I will also have to duplicate speakers to link to the duplicate sessions!

I run into this sometimes, too. What I end up doing is creating a calendar invite in Outlook that has the correct time and location, then saving the file. Then I upload that file to the event's documents and get the URL. 

The next part is to duplicate the registration confirmation email. If you do this, instead of using the default one, you get more options in the Advanced Settings tab. You can set a filter so that only people who select a certain Admission Item gets that particular confirmation email. Then I insert the URL for my Outlook calendar invite into the Add to Calendar button (I don't use the widget).

Then you can do this for each of your Admission Items. Be sure to turn off the original registration confirmation email. It ends up being a lot of emails if you have numerous Admission Items, but it's a nifty little workaround.

I run into this sometimes, too. What I end up doing is creating a calendar invite in Outlook that has the correct time and location, then saving the file. Then I upload that file to the event's documents and get the URL. 

The next part is to duplicate the registration confirmation email. If you do this, instead of using the default one, you get more options in the Advanced Settings tab. You can set a filter so that only people who select a certain Admission Item gets that particular confirmation email. Then I insert the URL for my Outlook calendar invite into the Add to Calendar button (I don't use the widget).

Then you can do this for each of your Admission Items. Be sure to turn off the original registration confirmation email. It ends up being a lot of emails if you have numerous Admission Items, but it's a nifty little workaround.