Hi Taylor, I've brought this to the attention of the AdWords team and asked them to investigate why the report service behaves this way. I'll update on the thread once I hear from them.
Cheers, Anash On Aug 11, 9:22 pm, Taylor Lilley <taylor.lil...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a further bit of information, we have 37 accounts under 1 MCC. Out > of curiosity, I pulled the All Ads report for a different account than > the one for which I sent you the definition id earlier. The result was > the same. > > Here is the report definition id for that test: 1298290 > Here is a successful id with the Headline field removed from the field > list: 1298410 > > Thanks again- > Taylor > > On Aug 10, 10:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor > > > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > Hi Taylor, > > > Can you post the requestId for a request where you added the report > > definition successfully, but got "Unknown error" when downloading the > > report? The code example was running fine on my account, so I wish to > > check if this error has something to do with your account. > > > Cheers, > > Anash P. Oommen, > > AdWords API Advisor. > > > On Aug 11, 6:18 am, Taylor Lilley <taylor.lil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Anash, your second link is very helpful. I have one issue running your > > > example code however. When I try to create the All Ads report, I get > > > an exception when the code tries to download the file. The returned > > > exception is "Unknown Exception". I can make the exception go away by > > > removing the Headline column from the report fields. This is very > > > strange. Do you have any idea why this would happen? > > > > All other reports run as expected. Thanks a ton for the sample code. > > > > On Aug 10, 5:19 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Taylor, > > > > > AdWords API doesn't provide any API calls or reports where you can > > > > download the entire MCC in a single call. One way to solve your issue > > > > in a fast and cost effective way would be to store the list of child > > > > accounts locally at your end, and then run Ad performance report on > > > > each of the child accounts. The report service in the new AdWords API > > > > is much faster than v13 reports, and more cost effective than looping > > > > through campaigns and adgroups to retrieve the ads. > > > > > You can find more about the new ReportDefinitionService and how it can > > > > be used to download a single account at the following locations: > > > > >http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/07/introduction-to-reportdefiniti...... > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Anash P. Oommen, > > > > AdWords API Advisor. > > > > > On Aug 10, 5:35 am, Taylor Lilley <taylor.lil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Our organization has 10s of 1000s of ads running. I've seen another > > > > > post where the poster wanted to "get the entire MCC" in a single API > > > > > call for similar reasons, but there was no real answer > > > > > provided...sooo... > > > > > > Is there a report that could pull a full list of ALL ads under a > > > > > specified MCC? Traversing down the hierarchy from clientAccount > > > > > (nested loops) is ridiculously slow and relatively costly. > > > > > > The reason we need this is that our marketing guys track their own > > > > > internal "campaign IDs" for reporting purposes. These "CID" values as > > > > > they call them are only found in the ad.URL field. I need a full list > > > > > of all ads that we've set up in AdWords so that I can build a map in > > > > > our local database between our marketing department's CID and Google's > > > > > CampaignID (it's a one to many relationship). > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
