Hi there, sorry to revive this old thread, but I just wanted to clarify whether it's still the case that once an ad group is set to "removed" state, its name can never again be used in the containing campaign (as re-enabling or renaming the ad group is not possible)?
Thanks & cheers, Dorian On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 3:07:04 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for the feedback. I'll continue to push for consistent name rules > and will update this thread with any progress. > > Cheers, > Josh, AdWords API Team > > On Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:09:57 AM UTC-4, ma...@pcbacker.nl wrote: >> >> Josh, >> >> If not possible to change a Removed status back to a Paused or Enabled >> status, at least you would expect to allow a new adgroup having the name of >> the removed one (like it works with campaigns). >> Please make those rules the same as you state. At the moment it totally >> frustrates our naming convention for automatically created adgroups. >> Thanx in advance >> Peter Backer, Maxlead >> >> >> On Monday, October 20, 2014 5:17:22 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API >> Team) wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Starting with v201406 of the API, you can no longer edit *any* attributes >>> of a removed Campaign or a removed AdGroup. You are correct that Campaigns >>> allow duplicate names among REMOVED objects, but AdGroup names must be >>> unique across all AdGroups in a Campaign, regardless of status. For the >>> time being, the approach you are taking of renaming AdGroups on delete is >>> the best option. Note that you *can* rename and remove an AdGroup in >>> the same SET operation (it sounds like you are doing separate operations, >>> but that's not actually necessary). >>> >>> I realize that this inconsistency is a bit of a pain, especially now >>> that you cannot change the name of a removed AdGroup. I'll talk to the team >>> about making the uniqueness rules for AdGroups the same as the rules for >>> Campaigns. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Josh, AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Monday, October 20, 2014 10:15:25 AM UTC-4, t.k...@social-mining.com >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We are running into a problem with re-enabling removed ad groups. In >>>> the past both campaigns and ad groups could be re-enabled from REMOVED >>>> status by simply setting their status to ENABLED, this no longer works, as >>>> the removal seems to be permanent. Instead the API allows multiple >>>> campaigns with the same name to exist, as long as only one campaign is >>>> ENABLED or PAUSED and the rest are REMOVED. >>>> >>>> However, this does not seem to work for Ad Groups. After setting a Ad >>>> Group status to REMOVED the status can no longer be set to ENABLED, but no >>>> other Ad Group with the same name can be created either. In essence, we >>>> are >>>> now have a number of Ad Groups that are 'locked', they cannot be >>>> re-enabled, but they can't be renamed either (although the web interface >>>> can still do this.) >>>> >>>> We have worked around the issue by renaming ad groups prior to deleting >>>> them, but this is far from optimal. Is this a bug or is this working as >>>> intended? >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/cff2c209-6974-42a2-9b77-368e1c1693cf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
