How can I "group-move" a large selection of events from one calendar to another?
I am trying to segregate out all birthdays and anniversaries from my primary personal "Home" calendar in Lightning and place them into another "Birthday-Anniversary" calendar. In essence, I am seeking the ability to move selected events from one calendar to another without individually opening hundreds of events.
is there a way in Lightning to group-change the categorization field from one calendar to another on a selection of events?
A parallel example in my experience might be to that within Thunderbird’s Address Book where I can group-edit selected contacts. There, I can sort out a group of contacts and then group-edit/change a field(s) on all items within that selection of contacts. I am seeking a similar ability in Lightning. Can you suggest a process or workaround that I might be able to handle?
Respectfully, aa
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
I'd do this:
- open event search from main menu while on calendar tab
- filter it so that you can select events you need (hold Shift or Ctrl to select more than one)
- cut these (either from edit menu or Ctrl+X)
- select the calendar you want to put them into from calendars list
- paste (again, either from menu or Ctrl+V)
Same select, cut and paste solution works on smaller set of events in calendar view as long as you select destination calendar from the list.
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Self Reply: I did some further experimentation and have figured out one workaround. With a bit of post editing, this workaround seems to have gotten the job done for now.
Selecting my personal (“Home”) calendar, I exported that file. Next, I imported that *.ics file into the new (“Birthday-Anniversary”) calendar. Then, I turned off the other calendars and using a combination of search criteria and category-sorts, highlighted those that I wished to edit out and deleted them. That left me a calendar with only the birthday and anniversary events remaining. Finally, I turned the original calendar back on (by itself) and deleted the originals from whence this new calendar was created.
While this was messy, cumbersome, and not very smooth, it ultimately got the job done. I would still be very interested if someone has a better method which might “move” selected events and eliminate the risk in my workaround of double-deleting an event from both calendars. Thank you all.
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
I'd do this:
- open event search from main menu while on calendar tab
- filter it so that you can select events you need (hold Shift or Ctrl to select more than one)
- cut these (either from edit menu or Ctrl+X)
- select the calendar you want to put them into from calendars list
- paste (again, either from menu or Ctrl+V)
Same select, cut and paste solution works on smaller set of events in calendar view as long as you select destination calendar from the list.
Perfect. Works great!
I was making it too complicated. You offer a simple solution, (which perhaps should have been more obvious to me). Thanks much.
OK I found another easy solution....
- highlight all the events you want to change, by ctrl/clicking on them : they will all change to a beige colour.
- click on "edit"(a pencil icon) in the top task bar
- chose which calender to move them into, on the 'calender' list
all done! ;)
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