Required. The resource name of the billing account to move. Must be of the formbillingAccounts/{billing_account_id}. The specified billing account cannot be a subaccount, since a subaccount always belongs to the same organization as its parent account.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"destinationParent":string}
Fields
destinationParent
string
Required. The resource name of the Organization to move the billing account under. Must be of the formorganizations/{organization_id}.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofBillingAccount.
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