Hi Berry, 1. Display URL is ad's property, so there's no way to set this at campaign or adgroup level. 2. Trying to set Display URL doesn't throw an exception, and this is by design. I agree that this is not probably the best way to handle things.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:23:26 AM UTC-5, Berry wrote: > > I realized it's impossible to change an Ad's Display URL "in-place", for a > creative. > > Is it possible to change the display URL globally, per campaign or per > adGroup? > > I have several campaigns with adGroups, all having the same Display URL, > but I find it difficult to just change the URL > > When I tried to change a displayURL in the Web interace, I realized that > it actually deletes the creative, and creates a new, identical creative > with its displayUrl set to the new value. > > > Doing the above via API means: > > loop over all campaings > loop over all adgroups > loop over all creatives > read creative properties > delete creative (status=REMOVED) > re-upload the same image to the same adgroup, > with the same properties, with different DisplayURL. > > Is there simpler way to change a campaigns Display URL? > > > N.B. there's a bug in the API: > setting the DisplayURL doesn't return any error, but in face doing > nothing. I would expect it to either change the URL or raise an exception. > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/6a8a80d2-a270-4ffa-9a2d-bf701368d9c8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
