Hey Thanet, Can you point me towards an API call that uses the Placement description as suggested?
Thanks, Mark On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:18:52 AM UTC-7, Mark R wrote: > > Hey Thanet, > > Thanks for the info. We'll look into alternative methods for updating the > Automatic placements. > > Regards, > Mark > > On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 1:48:39 AM UTC-7, Thanet Knack Praneenararat > (AdWords API Team) wrote: >> >> Hello Mark, >> >> Thanks for your clarification. >> >> I still think that you should ignore those placements without IDs or not >> offer them to your users. >> Originally, they are *automatic* placements (i.e., you or your user >> haven't created them), not the *managed* placements that you can add or >> delete. >> >> If you still would like to tweak around them, the best possible way might >> be using their descriptions instead of IDs. >> >> Cheers, >> Thanet, AdWords API Team >> >> On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 2:28:33 AM UTC+9, Mark R wrote: >>> >>> Hey Thanet, >>> >>> >>> >>> We use an internal tool for managing some of our Criterion, and our team >>> would like the capability to bid/pause/remove Placements through this tool. >>> >>> >>> >>> Without an ID they would need to individually select each Placement >>> through the AdWords webpage they wish to manipulate, rather than use API >>> calls. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark >>> >>> On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 4:16:46 AM UTC-7, Thanet Knack Praneenararat >>> (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Mark, >>>> >>>> I'm not sure I understand your use case correctly. >>>> Why would this mechanism (returning null when the placement is >>>> automatic one) is problematic to you? >>>> >>>> That is just one of other possible ways (e.g., returning an arbitrary >>>> constant value) to show that a certain row is of automatic, not the one >>>> you >>>> have manually specified. >>>> Could you please tell me what you are trying to achieve so I can help >>>> you appropriately? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Thanet, AdWords API Team >>>> >>>> On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 6:06:13 AM UTC+9, Mark R wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hey Thanet, >>>>> >>>>> That agrees with what we've observed, but is there a technical reason? >>>>> It seems to also be the case when I pull the Placement through the >>>>> AdGroupCriterionService. >>>>> >>>>> Can you suggest an alternative method for getting the ID? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 2:24:32 AM UTC-7, Thanet Knack >>>>> Praneenararat (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Mark, >>>>>> >>>>>> That means the placement is an automatic one >>>>>> <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/99463?hl=en> (as compared >>>>>> to managed placements >>>>>> <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/99502?hl=en>). In AWFE, >>>>>> it will have value of 0. >>>>>> For managed placements you specified, the placement performance >>>>>> report shows the ID field as usual. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Thanet, AdWords API Team >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 8:36:48 AM UTC+9, Mark R wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey Folks, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In the Placement Performance Report, I'm observing a large quantity >>>>>>> of Placements where the ID field is coming in as null ("--") and I'm >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> seeing in the documentation why that would be. Is there a segmentation >>>>>>> that could cause this result? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Mark >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/8e60c63f-60bd-4ac4-b411-0a21fe0c8c7a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
