Hi Kemal,
What you are trying to accomplish should be allowed. Can you double
check that the adGroupId-criterionId-paramIndex combination is unique
for each operation? Do you have the SOAP XML logs or requestId from a
request that demonstrates this behavior?
Best,
- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team
On Mar 23, 10:19 am, Kemal <dis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set the same AdParams (AdParamId's are the same, so are
> the values) for different criteria in the same AdGroup, all in one
> mutate call. But it throws me a
> AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES error.
>
> The documentation states that "The same ad param cannot be specified
> in multiple operations". Isn't this quite a bit limiting? How are we
> supposed to set a bunch of AdParams for an entire AdGroup in one go?
> Multiple calls to mutate() for each and every keyword would just kill
> the backend. Or do I have to use the BulkMutateJob service, even if I
> don't want to?
>
> Or maybe (well, hopefully) I triggered a bug in the API. Any comments?
>
> The data goes like this:
> An array of AdParamOperations with 14 elements. Operator is SET. Each
> AdParam with the same AdGroupId.
> First 7 AdParams set the same paramIndex (1) and the same
> insertionText ("4") but each with different criterionIds.
> Second 7 AdParams set the other paramIndex (2) and the same
> insertionText ("8" in this case) each with different criterionIds as
> well. (Actually the order of criterionIds match the first 7
> operations)
>
> The result is an array of AdParamErrors:
> [AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[2].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 1',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[3].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 1',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[4].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 1',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[5].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 1',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[6].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 1',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[9].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 8',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[10].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 8',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[11].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 8',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[12].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 8',
> AdParamError.AD_PARAM_CANNOT_BE_SPECIFIED_MULTIPLE_TIMES @
> operations[13].operand; trigger:'AdParam already defined at index 8']
>
> Best,
> Kemal
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