Can't set CpcBid to 'Excluded'

[Emma Rong]

Hello there,

I'm trying to set CpcBids to 'Excluded' by mutating the  
*AdGroupCriterionService*. According to this document 
<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/bidding#removing_bids> 
I'm supposed to set the *Bid *field to 0. However, I'm getting error below:
googleads.errors.GoogleAdsServerFault: [BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ 
operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; 
trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}']

Here are the SOAP request and response.

Outgoing request: {'SOAPAction': '""', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml; 
charset=utf-8', 'authorization': 'REDACTED'}
<soap-env:Envelope 
xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
  <soap-env:Header>
    <ns0:RequestHeader 
xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806";>
      <ns0:clientCustomerId>167-649-9151</ns0:clientCustomerId>
      <ns0:developerToken>REDACTED</ns0:developerToken>
      <ns0:userAgent>unknown (AwApi-Python, googleads/12.2.0, 
Python/2.7.15, zeep)</ns0:userAgent>
      <ns0:validateOnly>false</ns0:validateOnly>
      <ns0:partialFailure>false</ns0:partialFailure>
    </ns0:RequestHeader>
  </soap-env:Header>
  <soap-env:Body>
    <ns0:mutate 
xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806";>
      <ns0:operations>
        <ns0:operator>SET</ns0:operator>
        <ns0:operand xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:type="ns0:BiddableAdGroupCriterion">
          <ns0:adGroupId>63041570771</ns0:adGroupId>
          <ns0:criterion xsi:type="ns0:ProductPartition">
            <ns0:id>306384781405</ns0:id>
          </ns0:criterion>
          <ns0:biddingStrategyConfiguration>
            <ns0:bids xsi:type="ns0:CpcBid">
              <ns0:bid>
                <ns0:microAmount>0</ns0:microAmount>
              </ns0:bid>
              <ns0:cpcBidSource>CRITERION</ns0:cpcBidSource>
            </ns0:bids>
          </ns0:biddingStrategyConfiguration>
        </ns0:operand>
      </ns0:operations>
    </ns0:mutate>
  </soap-env:Body>
</soap-env:Envelope>

Incoming response: 
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
  <soap:Header>
    <ResponseHeader 
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806";>
      <requestId>000571c50ed874e00aa78615f80ef8c9</requestId>
      <serviceName>AdGroupCriterionService</serviceName>
      <methodName>mutate</methodName>
      <operations>1</operations>
      <responseTime>163</responseTime>
    </ResponseHeader>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
      <faultstring>[BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ 
operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; 
trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, 
cpcBidSource=null}']</faultstring>
      <detail>
        <ApiExceptionFault 
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806";>
          <message>[BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ 
operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; 
trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, 
cpcBidSource=null}']</message>
          
<ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>
          <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:type="BiddingErrors">
            
<fieldPath>operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids</fieldPath>
            <fieldPathElements>
              <field>operations</field>
              <index>0</index>
            </fieldPathElements>
            <fieldPathElements>
              <field>operand</field>
            </fieldPathElements>
            <fieldPathElements>
              <field>biddingStrategyConfiguration</field>
            </fieldPathElements>
            <fieldPathElements>
              <field>bids</field>
            </fieldPathElements>
            <trigger>CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, 
cpcBidSource=null}</trigger>
            <errorString>BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID</errorString>
            <ApiError.Type>BiddingErrors</ApiError.Type>
            <reason>INVALID_BID</reason>
          </errors>
        </ApiExceptionFault>
      </detail>
    </soap:Fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>


The error is complaining about the bid being 0.000000 where in the request 
I'm setting it to integer 0. Could anyone help me look into this?

Thanks!
Emma

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