Hello Rob, Could you clarify? I'm not sure what time frame you're asking about.
Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 26, 5:46 pm, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, I really appreciate an answer. What kind of time frame am > I looking at for report generation? > > Thanks > > Rob > > On Jan 22, 10:44 am, AdWords API Advisor > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > Hello Rob, > > > The Sandbox, as you point out, does not provide any actual report > > data. The ReportService in the Sandbox is hopefully useful for when > > developing or testing code to schedule and download reports. > > > When it comes to report processing, I'd recommend that you develop > > and test against a report or set of reports specific to your accounts. > > The easiest, and free, way to generate such reports is to use the > > AdWords web interface to set up a report with the same options of your > > choosing, and then download the XML of version of that report from the > > web interface. Everything other than Structure reports should be > > available via the web interface. You could of course generate the > > reports that you'd test your processing code against via the > > Production ReportService, but that obviously incurs a charge of 500 > > API units. > > > Once you have a set of reports that contain all the columns that > > you'd like and some actual statistics relevant to your account, just > > reference one of the reports locally during your development or > > testing process when it comes time to parse your report. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 21, 9:27 am, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That was less than helpful and if it saves me API units to do all of > > > my dev on a good dev enviroment then yes it is important. > > > > Rob > > > > On Jan 20, 6:08 pm, "Jan Piotrowski (AdWords API Guru)" > > > > <piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't pay for the dev environment. Do you? ;) > > > > > - Jan > > > > > On 20 Jan., 23:04, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to develop an app and am having very little luck with > > > > > reporting, from what I've seen no matter what report I call I get the > > > > > following url > > > > > >https://sandbox.google.com/sandboxreports/defined.xml > > > > > > Which of course has generic data. > > > > > > So am I right or am I missing some detail and If this is the way the > > > > > sandbox is there a place where I can see what the reports are supposed > > > > > to look like? > > > > > > Google! your sandbox sucks, its completely inappropriate for > > > > > development, a proper sandbox should emulate the production enviroment > > > > > almost exactly. > > > > > > Is there a reason why we pay for this service and have a terrible dev > > > > > enviroment? Really I'm just frustrated there must be some reasonable > > > > > answer? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
