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Chris Cirefice
Chris Cirefice

Reputation: 5795

Google Apps Script Move Event From One Calendar To Another

I looked at Mogsdad's answer to a sort-of-similar question here, but it's not incredibly specific to my problem. I've also looked at the documentation for the Calendar class and its subclasses, but there is no method (which should be implemented in my opinion; there is a pending feature request) for copying a single event from Calendar X to Calendar Y.

What I want to do is as follows:

  1. Have the ID for the calendar event to be moved stored somewhere.
  2. When Event Z is completed (external criteria, not time-based), give the function the calendar event ID.
  3. The function will move Event Z from Calendar X to Calendar Y.

The only way I could think of how to do it is sloppy (semi-pseudo below):

// y is Calendar Y, z is the ID of Event Z
function moveToNewCalendar(y, z) {

var eventToMove = getEventByID(z);

// eventDetails is an Object
var eventDetails = getAllEventDetails(eventToMove); // This is not fun!

y.createEvent(eventDetails);
eventToMove.deleteEvent();
}

function getAllEventDetails(e) {

var details = {};

details["title"] = e.getTitle();
details["startTime"] = e.getStartTime();
// ... etc

return details;

}

function createEvent(eventDetails) {
// Create event using the information pulled from eventDetails
}

This functionality is available through the Google Calendar API v3 - move function, but not through GAS.

I suppose that the main problem is copying the details of the event. There is no function to createEvent(Event e) in the Calendar prototype. Is there an easier way to do this that I'm just missing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2746

Answers (1)

Serge insas
Serge insas

Reputation: 46794

This new library written by Romain Vialard will give you a complete solution... I had the pleasure to be a beta tester and all my tests were successful :-)

Upvotes: 1

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