Actually - in my experience, the API does not handle it well if you remove a criterion and then add it back immediately. We tried three different approaches and only the last one worked:
1. Make one call to remove everything, then another call to add back what we want. FAIL. 2. Do everything in one call, placing the REMOVE operations first in the array, followed by the ADD operations. FAIL. 3. Perform a "diff", so that we only have to add or remove the specific items that are required. SUCCESS. When I say "FAIL", I mean that the end result is that the criterion that we attempted to ADD would never appear in the campaign. The REMOVE operations seemed to take precedence. We were extremely surprised that #1 failed, because they were two separate calls, although immediately following each other in time. Jim On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32:36 UTC-8, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Sanjay, > > Removing everything and adding everything back works too if you don't want > to do the merging part. Also, you might want to make the REMOVE and ADD > calls separate. I'm not sure of the exact behaviour if you add and remove > the same criterion in the same request. (E.g. REMOVE and ADD US country > target in the same call. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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