Hi Dorian, Thanks for reporting, I'll ask the reporting team to take a look.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 12:51:38 PM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed that with ETAs, the path1 and path2 fields are optional—you > can create an ad without either of these two fields set. This is in > contrast to the previously used text ads, where every field is required. > > This has an interesting effect, as the CSV reports show unset path fields > as " --" (a space and two hyphens)—but you can also set either path field > to consist of two hyphens, which also causes the field in the report to > show a space and two hyphens. > > This means that theoretically, you can't tell from a CSV report whether a > path field of an expanded text ad is really empty or has been set as "--". > Here's an actual CSV report from a test account: > > Path 1,Path 2,Headline 1,Headline 2,Description > --, --,Headline 1,Headline 2,Empty path fields. > --, --,Headline 1,Headline 2,"Path fields set to ""--""." > Total, --, --, --, -- > > Now I freely admit that this is a contrived scenario, but I wonder whether > it would be possible to leave the field empty instead of using " --". > > Seeing as " --" usually means "Not applicable" in the CSV reports (it's > mainly used if a metric doesn't have a meaningful aggregate in the totals > line, for example), I feel a clear distinction would be helpful. > > Any thoughts on this matter? > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/38986426-ac57-4385-8583-e7c869149f0a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
