Hi Tom, Could you provide the sample code and the yaml file you used so I could investigate this further? You may send them to me via the *reply privately to author* option.
Regards, Dannison AdWords API Team On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 11:57:14 PM UTC+8, tom.wagst...@raisingit.com wrote: > > Hi Dannison, > > Thanks for explaining the way the ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT works (I > understand you could segment the account, but it still seems like funny > behaviour to me - most people who want account-level metrics are going to > be comparing across accounts, rather than looking for a single one). > > But anyway, I have tried to run the sample code for parallel report > download in Python, and it doesn't return any results, nor does it throw > any error. I've run the sample script "as is" with minimal modifications > (just a directory for downloads and the path of our YAML file) on both our > production and test accounts, and it doesn't yield anything whatever I do... > > This is all the feedback I got: > Retrieving 2 reports with 2 processes: > Finished downloading reports with the following results: > > which I guess indicates that both *reports_succeeded *and *reports_failed* > are > coming back empty. Beyond that I'm at a loss - any idea what's up? > > Cheers, > Tom > > > On Thursday, 22 November 2018 18:26:37 UTC, Dannison Yao (AdWords API > Team) wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> The error CUSTOMER_SERVING_TYPE_REPORT_MISMATCH >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/common-errors#ReportDefinitionError.CUSTOMER_SERVING_TYPE_REPORT_MISMATCH> >> is >> encountered because you are using a manager account to run your reports. >> Reports can only be downloaded on a client level. >> >> The Account Performance Report >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/account-performance-report> >> retrieves >> metrics on an account level. With this said, it is expected behavior that >> it would return a single row only not unless you included segments for your >> account. If you wish to get the report for other client accounts, you have >> to run the report against the individual client account. If you wish to >> download reports in the manager account level and get the report for it's >> client accounts, you may refer to the Parallel Report Download sample >> code >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/samples/java/reporting#download-a-report-for-multiple-accounts> >> (also >> available in different languages) on how to do so. >> >> Regards, >> Dannison >> AdWords API Team >> >> On Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 8:40:56 PM UTC+8, >> tom.wa...@raisingit.com wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm trying to pull an account performance report for all the accounts we >>> manage. I'm querying the API using the Python library, using this type of >>> code: >>> >>> def getMyAccounts(client): >>> # Initialize appropriate service. >>> report_downloader = client.GetReportDownloader(version="v201809") >>> >>> # Create report query. >>> report_query = (adwords.ReportQueryBuilder() >>> .Select("ExternalCustomerId", "Impressions") >>> .From("ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT") >>> .During("YESTERDAY") >>> .Build()) >>> >>> When I try to call this function, passing it our manager account for >>> *client >>> *triggers this error: >>> >>> AdWordsReportBadRequestError: Type: >>> ReportDefinitionError.CUSTOMER_SERVING_TYPE_REPORT_MISMATCH >>> >>> which apparently is because I'm using a manager account rather than an >>> individual client account. When I pass an individual client account I just >>> get a single row for that account. >>> >>> This seems like crazy behaviour: surely the Account Performance Report >>> is, as described in the documentation, for "statistics aggregated by >>> default at the account level, one row per account" >>> So how do I get more than one account out of this report? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/feefcb34-3e36-4a85-8244-fe72d3a7605f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
