How was your event created the & should have been converted to a & by your editor

The problem is that it's part of the HTML. It's in the link href attribute. So the editor doesn't convert it:

<a href="https://www.jevents.net/test?xx=5&zz=2">Open the flyer of the event</a>

We use this functionality to add links to download the event flyer. But unfortunately this breaks the subscriptions through the ical feeds.

Quoted from geraint on Tuesday, 24 October 2023

How was your event created the & should have been converted to a & by your editor

Which editor are you using in Joomla - if you added

<a href="https://www.jevents.net/test?xx=5&zz=2">Open the flyer of the event</a>

most would convert it to this during saving

<a href="https://www.jevents.net/test?xx=5&zz=2">Open the flyer of the event</a>

The Event was created by the JEvent editor. The description is edited with the JCE Editor.
But I don't understand your point. It's exact the same html statement in both of you code fragments, there is no difference.

Sorry - the forum software has made the correction for me.

The problem is that your URL contains a naked & and not a & a m p ; (spaces added to stop the forum from auto-correcting this).

Which version of JCE are you using?

It's the JCE editor 2.9.32.
That a content editor html encodes the URL in a link sounds strange to me. Usually only the display text is replaced, not the URL. If I HTML-encode the & in the URL in the HTML source, it works. But the opened URL still contains the encoded characters. It's interpreted correctly by the browser I used to test it, but it seems wrong to me.

I've reactivated my membership and posted it again in the member forum:
https://www.jevents.net/discussions/if-a-jevents-event-contains-a-link-with-an-ampersand-in-the-description-the-ical-export-fails-1