Hi Greg, We need to update the Unique IDs documentation a bit, now that AdService is available. The more detailed version is like this:
- AdId represents a globally unique creative ID. This means that you can edit an Ad using AdService using creativeId without any concern of ID collision. - AdGroupAd is a link that associates an Ad to an AdGroup. But we don't expose an AdGroupAdId. You could use the pair (adgroupid, adid) as a proxy ID for AdGroupAd. Hence our warning that when querying using AdGroupAdService.get, you should not consider adId to be a unique Id, you should rather use the pair (adgroupid, adid) as a unique pair. So, you are fine if you follow these guidelines: 1. When using AdGroupAdService.get, use (adGroupid, adId) as a unique ID for querying purposes. 2. When using AdService.mutate, use adId as a unique ID for updating the ad. Hope this helps? Cheers Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 12:22:00 AM UTC-4, GregT wrote: > > Hi, > > I saw that in the recent v201806 release of the API, there is now the > ability to mutate ads. This would make some things simpler for us where > we're currently doing removal and adds to accomplish the same thing, so > it'd be nice to use it. However, I'm a little hesitant, because something > seems wrong about it. According to > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/ad-features#mutating_ads_for_v201806_and_later, > > you can mutate the Ad by using the new AdService, setting the id field of > the Ad, setting whatever fields you want to change, and sending it with the > SET operator. The part that worries me is that ad ids are not globally > unique, even within a single account, but are unique only within an ad > group ( > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/objects-methods). > So, it seems unsafe and error prone to be able to modify an ad by > specifying just its id, as you could have more than one ad in your account > with that id, leading to modifying the wrong ad or an error (if the AdWords > API is checking for this and returning a SOAP fault for it)? Or am I > missing something? > > Thanks in advance, > Greg > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 and Google Ads 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/e9109f68-3ba0-4f9d-9dd2-f57d67f69576%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
