Hi Jeremy, That's unexpected, the call should have failed. Could you post a sanitized SOAP request and response xml?
As for error recovery, you could retrieve adGroups by given name, and then rename the duplicate adGroup / delete it as applicable. Cheers, Anash On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:15:15 AM UTC+5:30, Jeremy Tangney wrote: > > Hi API team, > > I'm also experiencing this issue. When creating adGroups with duplicate > names, I receive a DUPLICATE_ADGROUP_NAME exception but the duplicate > adGroup still gets created. Is this expected behaviour? > > If so, what are the recommended handling steps when we receive this error? > Check if the duplicate group was in fact created, and then delete? > > Thanks for your input. > > On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 01:49:52 UTC+10, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API > Team) wrote: >> >> Hi Dario, >> >> My understanding is that attempt to ensure that adgroup name is unique in >> mutate.add request is a best effort attempt. You could rarely end up with >> duplicate adgroup names. However, adgroups will still have distinct ids, >> you should be able to retrieve them, rename them, etc. >> >> Cheers, >> Anash P. Oommen, >> AdWords API Advisor. >> >> On Friday, August 30, 2013 4:08:40 PM UTC+1, Dario Guzik wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I have encountered the same problem. Knowing the duplicate name >>> restriction on adGroups I took no special considerations and in some mutate >>> jobs there might have been duplicates. Now I have 2 copies of the same >>> adGroups in some campaigns. >>> I cand delete them manually, but I' d like to know why this could have >>> happened. >>> >>> Tnks >>> >>> El jueves, 31 de marzo de 2011 03:07:32 UTC-3, Anash P. Oommen escribió: >>>> >>>> Hi Marco, >>>> >>>> It is anash dot p dot oommen at google dot com. >>>> >>>> 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. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
