Hi Josh, a quick follow-up about URL lists from Upgraded URLs.
In the Placeholder Feed Item Report, we can get a FeedItem's attribute values in the "AttributeValues" field, which contains a semicolon-delimited list of the FeedItem's attributes. Now, for a FeedItem representing a sitelink extension, the 5th attribute would contain the final URLs for this sitelink. Apparently they are either of data type URL_LIST (according to <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/placeholders#sitelinks>) or REPEATED_URL (according to <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/upgraded-urls>). I assume that here again, the individual URLs are separated by semicolons, but as they're inside the AttributeValues list, which itself is separated by semicolons, it seems that it's a bit difficult to parse those reports properly (especially as the next attribute in the AttributeValues field is final mobile URLs, which again is of type URL_LIST). Am I missing the point completely or are there any pointers you can provide with regards to parsing PLACEHOLDER_FEED_ITEM_REPORT? Thanks a lot and best regards, Dorian On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 10:28:31 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Dorian, > > AdWords allows multiple final URLs specifically for the use case where you > are *not* including *lpurl* in your tracking template. For example, if > your tracking template is directing traffic to a tracker that redirects > some traffic to one URL and other traffic to another URL, e.g., for a > landing page experiment. > > If you do have multiple final URLs *and* you are using a tracking > template that includes *lpurl*, AdWords will simply pass the first final > URL for the *lpurl* parameter value. Also, if you have multiple final > URLs and you are *not* using a tracking template at all, AdWords will > simply serve the ads with the first final URL as the destination URL. > > Currently, the UI does not support *adding* multiple final URLs, although > you can *view* additional final URLs by hovering over the callout to the > right of the *Final URL* entry field, at which point you'll see an > *Additional > final URLs* tooltip that shows the 2..n final URLs. > > Regarding reports, the semicolon in your *CreativeFinalUrls* will not be > escaped. However, it does appear that there will be a space following the > semicolon delimiter, e.g.: > > "AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT (Apr 22, 2015)" > Ad ID,Final URL,Impressions > 123456789,http://www.example.com/1?a;b; http://www.example.com/2?c;d,0 > > Cheers, > Josh, AdWords API Team > > On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 11:16:56 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> >> From the API documentation we know that the final URL fields of Ad >> objects ("finalUrls", "finalMobileUrls", "finalAppUrls") are lists. >> >> I'm having a hard time understanding how ad serving works if there are >> multiple final URLs for a given ad, for example, how does Adwords choose >> which final URL to use for the "lpurl" parameter? >> >> Additionally, is there currently any way that one can add multiple final >> URLs in the web interface, or is this just possible using the API? >> >> And lastly, it's mentioned that in reports, values for the final URL >> field for a given creative are separated by semicolons. But what if the >> URLs themselves contain semicolons (for example, they can be used in place >> of "&" as the item separator in query strings), are they going to be >> escaped? >> >> Thanks for your feedback and best regards, >> Dorian >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/ddbea04a-b357-4008-acdf-fff301624acb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
