Events: move

Moves an event to another calendar, i.e. changes an event's organizer. Note that only default events can be moved; birthday, focusTime, fromGmail, outOfOffice and workingLocation events cannot be moved. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId/move

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
`calendarId`	`string`	Calendar identifier of the source calendar where the event currently is on.
`eventId`	`string`	Event identifier.
Required query parameters
`destination`	`string`	Calendar identifier of the target calendar where the event is to be moved to.
Optional query parameters
`sendNotifications`	`boolean`	Deprecated. Please use sendUpdates instead. Whether to send notifications about the change of the event's organizer. Note that some emails might still be sent even if you set the value to `false`. The default is `false`.
`sendUpdates`	`string`	Guests who should receive notifications about the change of the event's organizer. Acceptable values are: "`all`": Notifications are sent to all guests. "`externalOnly`": Notifications are sent to non-Google Calendar guests only. "`none`": No notifications are sent. For calendar migration tasks, consider using the Events.import method instead.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events`

For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an Events resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

import com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.model.Event;

// ...

// Initialize Calendar service with valid OAuth credentials
Calendar service = new Calendar.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credentials)
    .setApplicationName("applicationName").build();

// Move an event to another calendar
Event updatedEvent =
    service.events().move('primary', "eventId", "destinationCalendarId").execute();

System.out.println(updatedEvent.getUpdated());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# First retrieve the event from the API.
updated_event = service.events().move(
    calendarId='primary', eventId='eventId',
    destination='destinationCalendarId').execute()

# Print the updated date.
print updated_event['updated']

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

$result = $service->events->move('primary', 'eventId', 'destinationCalendarId');

// Print the updated date.
echo $result->getUpdated();

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

result = client.move_event('primary', 'eventId', 'destinationCalendarId')
print result.updated

Try it!

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