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Moves an event to another calendar, i.e. changes an event's organizer. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

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

Parameters

Parameter nameValueDescription
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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Last updated 2021-06-29 UTC.

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Can you move an event from one Google Calendar to another?

To move an event from one calendar to another, you must be the organizer of a Google Calendar event. You must also have edit access to the calendar you move the event to. When you move an event, you add the event's organizers to the new calendar and remove organizers from the old calendar.

How do I move a Google Calendar event to someone else?

If you own an event, you can transfer ownership to another person in Calendar.
In Google Calendar, click the name of the event in your calendar grid..
Click More. Change owner..
Enter the email of the new owner and edit the message if you need to..
Click Change owner..

How do I add an event to a different calendar?

Move events to different calendars Right-click the event you want to move and select Edit. Select More details at the bottom of the event description. In the event window, select the calendar name, and choose another calendar from the drop-down menu. Select Save.

How do I sync events between Google calendars?

Open the Google Calendar app ..
In the top left, tap Menu ..
Tap Settings ..
Tap the name of the calendar that isn't showing up. If you don't see the calendar listed, tap Show more..
At the top of the page, make sure Sync is on (blue)..