Transfer Data to Manager

[J.Admin]

Hi folks! Wondering what would be the set of steps for a script or a command to transfer a users drive data automatically to their manager if the "manager's email" field in Google is populated for a user without having to enter the manager's email?

Essentially having the "<New Owner Email> " below auto populated?

gam user <User Email> transfer drive <New Owner Email> 

Thank you! :)

[Maj Marshall Giguere]

AFAIK the answer is no.  You will need to examine the source owners account and extract the manager's email and then insert it into the transfer command.  Obviously if the manager's email field isn't populated then you're on your own.

I can think of ways to script something like this, but it's still a multi-step process.

1. find the users whose drives you want to transfer

2. extract the manager's email (if it exists) to a csv file with two columns: primarEmail and manager_email. 

3. use the previous csv to feed the gam transfer command.

If you're using advanced gam here are some suggested readings:

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Bulk-Processing

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/CSV-Input-Filtering

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/CSV-Output-Filtering

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Users-Drive-Transfer#users---drive---transfer

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[J.Admin]

Thanks Maj! I was thinking the same (exporting to a csv) and was hoping there was an easier way. Doing the csv route for now! :D

[J.Admin]

For what its worth, if anyone comes later and wants to know, found a way to do so if running a bash script. You can turn it into a variably by:

managerEmail="$gam info user $userEmail | awk '/type: manager/ {getline; print $2}'"

where "gam" is the path to the bin and "userEmail" is the users email. The command later then looks like

$gam user "$userEmail" transfer drive "$managerEmail"

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