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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.
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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.
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:
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