GAM - Transfer Ownership of Recurring Event

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Mason

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May 26, 2020, 2:18:30 PM5/26/20
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Hi GAM Experts,

I'm trying to transfer an abandoned Calendar Event from one user to another. Through searching these forums I found:

gam calendar us...@example.com move event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com 

This command works perfectly and will transfer the ownership of the event. However, when I try to do the same thing with a recurring event the command fails with the error message:

Move Failed: Cannot change the organizer of an instance.

I tried to edit the original command by adding recurring event id: 

gam calendar us...@example.com move recurring event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com
 
However, it still fails. Am I missing something here, or are recurring events not transferable? 

Thanks, 

Ross Scroggs

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May 26, 2020, 4:11:45 PM5/26/20
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Mason,

Yes, recurring events are transferable;your original command is correct:
gam calendar us...@example.com move event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com 
What the error message is telling you is that the event id you gave was that of one of the instances of the event, not the id of the master event.

How did you get the event id?

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Mason

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May 26, 2020, 6:19:03 PM5/26/20
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Hi Ross,

I used the calendar debugging URL:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r?gsessionid=OK&eventdeb=1

Sorry, that event ID I provided is just random text. How do I get the master event ID? 

Thanks, 


On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 2:11:45 PM UTC-6, Ross Scroggs wrote:
Mason,

Yes, recurring events are transferable;your original command is correct:
gam calendar us...@example.com move event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com 
What the error message is telling you is that the event id you gave was that of one of the instances of the event, not the id of the master event.

How did you get the event id?

On May 26, 2020, at 11:18 AM, Mason <mw...@atb.com> wrote:

Hi GAM Experts,

I'm trying to transfer an abandoned Calendar Event from one user to another. Through searching these forums I found:

gam calendar us...@example.com move event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com 

This command works perfectly and will transfer the ownership of the event. However, when I try to do the same thing with a recurring event the command fails with the error message:

Move Failed: Cannot change the organizer of an instance.

I tried to edit the original command by adding recurring event id: 

gam calendar us...@example.com move recurring event id sald23jdiosa21o3j to us...@example.com
 
However, it still fails. Am I missing something here, or are recurring events not transferable? 

Thanks, 

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Ross Scroggs

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May 26, 2020, 6:32:29 PM5/26/20
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Mason,

gam calendar user@example show events matchfield summary "Put Event Summary Here"


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Mason

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May 27, 2020, 10:20:01 AM5/27/20
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Hi Ross,

Thanks for this, greatly appreciated! 
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Tom Spis

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Dec 13, 2021, 3:27:50 PM12/13/21
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Hi Ross,

First off, apologies for reviving an old thread.

It seems like the above-mentioned command no longer works - I'm getting a 'move is not a valid argument for "gam calendar"' when I try to run it. 

Has it been removed from GAM?

Ross Scroggs

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Dec 13, 2021, 3:47:47 PM12/13/21
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Tom,

That is an error message from Standard GAM, it does not support moving events; that requires Advanced GAM.

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Ronald Nissley

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Feb 1, 2022, 5:21:29 PM2/1/22
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Resurrecting this again... Using GAMADV-XTD3 6.15.02, I retrieved a recurring event ID using the suggested matchfield summary query and tried the command form:
gam calendar shared_ca...@group.calendar.google.com move recurring event id recurringEventId to dest_user...@domain.tld
Partial command/error output:
"move >>>recurring<<< event id recurringEventId to dest_user...@domain.tld

ERROR: Invalid choice (recurring): Expected <event>"

Color me confused...and probably missing something painfully obvious. 😳😊
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Ronald Nissley

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Feb 1, 2022, 11:48:30 PM2/1/22
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nvm...I misunderstood a previous response from Ross to mean gam calendar...move recurring event... is correct syntax. It isn't. As the error indicates, recurring is invalid. I was also incorrectly using a recurring event instance ID, which might look something like u8n0fbn0i6n86nduvhjf19c9pc_R20220201T150000. It took me a bit to correctly guess that the id for the master event is the same as an instance ID but omits the underscore separator and date/time specifier. For the pseudo example instance ID provided, the master event ID would be u8n0fbn0i6n86nduvhjf19c9pc.
Now on to tackle a "You need to have writer access to both calendars" error. Oddly, this is for a recurring event which I already moved (e.g. from org_shared_calendarATgroupDOTcalendarDOTgoogleDOTcom to user_calendarATdomainDOTtld) and now I'm trying to move back to the original calendar.

Ronald Nissley

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Feb 2, 2022, 11:37:04 AM2/2/22
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Now on to tackle a "You need to have writer access to both calendars" error. Oddly, this is for a recurring event which I already moved (e.g. from org_shared_calendarATgroupDOTcalendarDOTgoogleDOTcom to user_calendarATdomainDOTtld) and now I'm trying to move back to the original calendar.

I didn't find this exactly intuitive, but the user (owner of user_calendarATdomainDOTtld in my example) required writer access on the org/non-primary shared calendar.

JS

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May 24, 2023, 12:07:42 PM5/24/23
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Is this possible to do for suspended users? I know Google allows this functionality via the Calendar API - https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2016/09/manage-your-suspended-users-google-calendars.html

However, when I try to run this command on a suspended user, I get this error

The user must be signed up for Google Calendar.

After re-activating the user and enabling the Calendar service for them, I still get the same error.

Erik Lentz

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May 25, 2023, 8:51:31 PM5/25/23
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Seeing the same issue when a user is suspended:

The user must be signed up for Google Calendar.

John Nguyen

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Feb 1, 2024, 9:43:16 PMFeb 1
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Same issue for a suspended user. Did anyone find a work around?
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