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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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,

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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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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?

Philippe GUERIN

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Jul 18, 2024, 6:30:30 AMJul 18
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Hey Ross

Thank you for your helps

My error message is : 

gam calendar user...@company.fr move event id "4f17km9depgjn88hkek6a1tf7oce" to userto...@company.fr
Calendar: user...@company.fr, Move 1 Event
  Calendar: user...@company.fr, Event: 4f17km9depgjn88hkek6a1tf7oce, Calendar: userto...@company.fr, Move Failed: Writer access required to both calendars


And at first, it was not obvious for me to write 'move event ID' because it was explained differently in the Gsite and in the GitHub :
gam calendar <CalendarEntity> move event [<EventEntity>] destination|to <CalendarItem> [<EventNotificationAttribute>]

Philippe GUERIN

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Jul 18, 2024, 8:35:28 AMJul 18
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I tried with asadmin at the end of the command, but it still not work (non recognized command with that new input)

Could someone help?

Brandi Groft

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Jul 18, 2024, 3:01:31 PMJul 18
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Philippe,
You need to grant OLDUSER writer access to NEWUSER's calendar first for the move command to work:

[GAMADV-XTD3]   gam calendars NEWUSER add acls writer OLDUSER sendnotifications false
If you don't include "sendnotifications false" an email will go to OLDUSER's account telling them they have this calendar shared to them.

Optional steps I typically do after the "gam calendar OLDUSER move event eventid 28dj8jf82jr82jf822f2 to NEWUSER" command:
1. Remove OLDUSER from the event if desired, which does not email OLDUSER about removal:
gam calendar NEWUSER updateevent 28dj8jf82jr82jf822f2 removeattendee OLDUSER

2. Remove OLDUSER's writer access to NEWUSER's calendar, to clean up no-longer-necessary ACLs:
gam calendars NEWUSER delete acls writer OLDUSER

3. Resuspend OLDUSER account if it was suspended before these operations:
gam suspend user OLDUSER

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Philippe GUERIN

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Jul 19, 2024, 3:42:52 AMJul 19
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Hi

Thank you so much Brandi for your answer.
gam calendar <CalendarEntity> move event [<EventEntity>] destination|to <CalendarItem> [<EventNotificationAttribute>]

It normally able to work, but I didn't succeed to do that 🧐

Philippe GUERIN

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Jul 19, 2024, 10:51:05 AMJul 19
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Hi there !

I found an other, and more simple solution.
With my super-admin account, I used this API explorer to execute my need...
And it works !!!

Good week-end all.
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