Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
The API team can correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way to track changes to structural data is for you to do it yourself locally by comparing, on a daily basis, the structural data you hold against newly downloaded data. On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:32:23 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
Do we at least know which fields in the Ad Performance Report are structural data (and, hence, cannot be relied upon to be accurate over time), and which ones aren't? Sorry, but I'm just baffled how this API is so poorly documented. I expected way more from a company like Google. On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:42:52 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: The API team can correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way to track changes to structural data is for you to do it yourself locally by comparing, on a daily basis, the structural data you hold against newly downloaded data. On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:32:23 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
Do we at least know which fields in the Ad Performance Report are structural data (and, hence, cannot be relied upon to be accurate over time), and which ones aren't? On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:42:52 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: The API team can correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way to track changes to structural data is for you to do it yourself locally by comparing, on a daily basis, the structural data you hold against newly downloaded data. On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:32:23 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
Structural data tends to have a value 'Attribute' under the 'Behavior' column. Performance data tends to be the 'Metric' ones. Most of the data segments you see in the web interface can be retrieved via the 'Segment' ones. Oliver On Friday, August 17, 2012 2:54:34 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Do we at least know which fields in the Ad Performance Report are structural data (and, hence, cannot be relied upon to be accurate over time), and which ones aren't? On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:42:52 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: The API team can correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way to track changes to structural data is for you to do it yourself locally by comparing, on a daily basis, the structural data you hold against newly downloaded data. On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:32:23 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week *. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Adstate column showing disabled when it shouldn't be
Thanks for your help. Oliver. Not the answer(s) I was hoping for, but I'm glad you know them and are willing to share. Eric On Friday, August 17, 2012 11:04:56 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: Structural data tends to have a value 'Attribute' under the 'Behavior' column. Performance data tends to be the 'Metric' ones. Most of the data segments you see in the web interface can be retrieved via the 'Segment' ones. Oliver On Friday, August 17, 2012 2:54:34 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Do we at least know which fields in the Ad Performance Report are structural data (and, hence, cannot be relied upon to be accurate over time), and which ones aren't? On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:42:52 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: The API team can correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way to track changes to structural data is for you to do it yourself locally by comparing, on a daily basis, the structural data you hold against newly downloaded data. On Friday, August 17, 2012 12:32:23 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous feature that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed? On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' and not how it's been changing over time. Oliver On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a new ad. The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its AdState will show up as disabled. We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. Here's the problem... Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of disabled. But as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it shows the AdState as disabled *for the entire week*. That's not right; we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
