Wipe events triggered email notifications

[Dhananjay Munde]

Hi,

I am trying to understand if anyone else faced this similar issue, I ran a command to wipe primary calendars for the users and it triggered email notifications like declined events to respective event organizers.

Gam command - gam <UserTypeEntity> wipe events primary

Example - gam a...@xyz.com wipe events primary

Let me know if it is an expected behavior, its not mentioned anywhere on the GAM git hub that this command will trigger the notifications. 

Reference - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Calendars-Events

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[Ross Scroggs]

Here'e the Calendat API being called: https://developers.google.com/workspace/calendar/api/v3/reference/calendars/clear

It says nothing about sending notifications.

Ross

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[Dhananjay Munde]

That's what I expect. However, GAM did triggered notifications and I am trying to understand why ? what might have went wrong, Google also doesn't support the product.

Is there any way to troubleshoot the GAM further.

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[James Masterton]

I would say "expected behaviour" as we run into the same issue with onboarding workflows with another product.

It only occurs for events to which the recipient hasn't RSVP'd. The process of deleting the event triggers an automatic decline, essentially so the calendar app knows that invitee is not coming and can log accordingly.

This doesn't occur when the event has already been accepted, the removal there is silent.

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[Dhananjay Munde]

Interesting! Then what's the best way to wipe primary calendar ?

I have tested another command - gam user <email> delete events primary sendnotifications false sendupdates none doit

This worked but the challenges with this one are,

1) Deleted events one by one so takes lot of time

2) Deleted WORKING_LOCATION_HOME  (I don't want this to happen for all users)
 
Any suggestions ?

[Ross Scroggs]

Try this: gam user <email> delete events primary eventtypes default,fromgmail sendupdates none doit

sendnotifications false sendupdates none are redundant, you only need one of them

I'll add batch processing to speed deletes up.

Ross

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On Jan 14, 2026, at 7:16 AM, Dhananjay Munde <mu...@pythian.com> wrote:

Interesting! Then what's the best way to wipe primary calendar ?

I have tested another command - gam user <email> delete events primary sendnotifications false sendupdates none doit

This worked but the challenges with this one are,

1) Deleted events one by one so takes lot of time

2) Deleted WORKING_LOCATION_HOME  (I don't want this to happen for all users)

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-apps-manager/53fab4c6-4051-41d9-a05c-579e81facda3n%40googlegroups.com.
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