Moving labels & nesting

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DTodorov

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Aug 3, 2020, 7:42:42 AM8/3/20
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Hi all,

Just wanted to see if this is possible, been looking around for documentation / discussion but no luck.

Lets say we've got a user that has multiple labels. 
  • Label1
  • Label2
  • Label3 
  • ....etc....
Is it possible to nest these labels with GAM under a new one?
  • New Label
    • Label1
    • Label2
    • Label3
Thanks

Jay Lee

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Aug 3, 2020, 7:59:11 AM8/3/20
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No, GAM isn't a migration tool. GYB will do this though:


Jay

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DTodorov

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Aug 3, 2020, 8:04:50 AM8/3/20
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Thanks  for the reply Jay.

I was not asking for migration tho. Just wanted to see if I can move/rename already existing labels under a parent/nested label. 
(which you can do from the gmail gui but not sure if implemented at all in gam)

Thanks for your time

Ross Scroggs

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Aug 3, 2020, 9:53:19 AM8/3/20
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You can do this with Advanced GAM (https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3)

Change labels, omit doit to get a count of the messages that will be modified.

gam user us...@domain.com modify messages query "label:Label1" addlabel "New Label/Label1" removelabel "Label1" doit
gam user us...@domain.com modify messages query "label:Label2" addlabel "New Label/Label2" removelabel "Label2" doit
...

Delete old labels.
gam user us...@domain.com delete label "Label1"
gam user us...@domain.com delete label "Label2"
...

Test

Ross


Patrick Haley

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Nov 16, 2022, 4:55:40 PM11/16/22
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Ross, could you export a csv via this method then update labels from the csv? For example, if the user has...

Label1
Label2
   Label2.1
Label3

Is it possible to add a parent label to them? e.g.

NewLabel
   Label1
   Label2
      Label2.1 
   Label3

Ross Scroggs

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Nov 16, 2022, 5:31:45 PM11/16/22
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Patrick,

You should be able to do this; send me a Meet/Zoom invitation and we'll figure it out.

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