Issues with Google Calendar Integration in TightKnit Event Creation

Hello 🙂 Just created my first event in The Community Community Slack using TightKnit - love the tool 👍🏻 Once published, I clicked the add to calendar and selected Google (I don't use Apple or Outlook) and noticed it doesn't pull thru the data correctly, ie the location is missing and only a limited number of characters make it into the description.

Q: Are these known issues, please?

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Stephen C.
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James C. Thanks for reporting the issue! We're looking into it now. I'll follow up with you to get more details on what you're seeing.
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Stephen C.
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Update: James C. Good news, we've identified the root cause. If the # is included in the event description, it is not correctly encoded in the URL and gets misinterpreted by the browser in the add-to-calendar link. We will have a fix out shortly. As a workaround, if you edit the Event description to exclude the # character it will avoid this bug.
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Stephen C.
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The fix is now in. Please let us know if the # character and channel tags now work as expected.
James C.
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Yeap, that works - thanks 🙂 Q: Can HTML / Rich Text be inserted into calendar descriptions? (currently its plain text only)
Stephen C.
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No, not at this time. Since the add-to-calendar button is link-based we are limited to plain text that can be included in the URL.
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