Our automated system creates "National" campaigns which target up to 20 large metros.
Apparently, in the case of the campaign below Google API rejects the combination of metros. These metros were manually selected through the adwords website and there was no error. POST /api/adwords/v13/reseller/CampaignService HTTP/1.0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/* User-Agent: Axis/1.4 Host: adwords.google.com Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache SOAPAction: "" Content-Length: 2527 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http:// www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Header><ns1:email soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">XXXXXXXX</ns1:email><ns2:password soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">ZZZZZZ</ns2:password><ns3:useragent soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns3="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">XXXXXX</ns3:useragent><ns4:developerToken soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns4="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">XXXXXX</ns4:developerToken><ns5:applicationToken soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns5="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">XXXXXX</ns5:applicationToken><ns6:clientEmail soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns6="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">XXXXX</ns6:clientEmail></ soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body><updateCampaign xmlns="https:// adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/ reseller"><campaign><budgetAmount>1000000000</ budgetAmount><budgetOptimizerSettings xsi:nil="true"/ ><budgetPeriod>Daily</budgetPeriod><contentTargeting xsi:nil="true"/ ><geoTargeting><metroTargets><metros>571</metros><metros>624</ metros><metros>656</metros><metros>584</metros><metros>686</ metros><metros>602</metros><metros>534</metros><metros>725</ metros><metros>740</metros><metros>652</metros><metros>545</ metros><metros>613</metros><metros>722</metros><metros>765</ metros><metros>764</metros><metros>604</metros><metros>531</ metros><metros>839</metros><metros>509</metros><metros>567</metros></ metroTargets><targetAll>false</targetAll></geoTargeting><id>999999999</ id><languageTargeting><languages>en</languages></ languageTargeting><name>National</ name><networkTargeting><networkTypes>ContentNetwork</ networkTypes><networkTypes>SearchNetwork</networkTypes></ networkTargeting><schedule xsi:nil="true"/><status>Active</status></ campaign></updateCampaign></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> The error is: <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- instance"><soapenv:Header><responseTime soapenv:actor="http:// schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next" soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/reseller";>97</ responseTime><operations soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ soap/actor/next" soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https:// adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/reseller">1</operations><units soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13/reseller">1</units><requestId soapenv:actor="http:// schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next" soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/ reseller">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</requestId></ soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault> <faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode> <faultstring>One or more input elements failed validation.</ faultstring> <detail> <ns1:fault xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/ reseller"> <ns1:code>122</ns1:code> <ns1:message>One or more input elements failed validation.</ ns1:message> <ns1:errors> <ns1:index>0</ns1:index> <ns1:field>geoTargeting</ns1:field> <ns1:trigger>725</ns1:trigger> <ns1:code>29</ns1:code> <ns1:isExemptable>false</ns1:isExemptable> <ns1:detail>Cannot target a location already enclosed by another location target.</ns1:detail> </ns1:errors> </ns1:fault> </detail> </soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> What is the recommended way to handle this error? Remove offending metro? Break it down into cities? Use states? Anything else? Thanks, Maxim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
