Okay - thanks for the information, Anash.
On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 12:38:26 PM UTC-5, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords
API Team) wrote:
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> Hi Greg,
>
> One instance I can think of is when you clone campaigns in the UI by
> copy-paste. Ad IDs are reused AFAIK in that case.
>
> Cheers
> Anash P.
Hi Greg,
One instance I can think of is when you clone campaigns in the UI by
copy-paste. Ad IDs are reused AFAIK in that case.
Cheers
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.
On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 2:53:15 PM UTC-4, GregT wrote:
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> Okay - sorry for the confusion, Anash. I think my
Okay - sorry for the confusion, Anash. I think my confusion came from how
we would need an ad group id to identify AdGroupAds uniquely if ad ids are
unique, and I forgot about shared ads because AdWords got rid of them 2 or
3 years ago. Are there cases where an ad id can be shared across ad
Hi Greg,
Yes, the way you read the documentation is correct. Ad Ids may be reused
across ad groups. As I mentioned in my previous post, AdGroupAd is not the
same thing as Ad. Ad is the actual underlying entity, and AdGroupAd is a
link that associates an AdGroup and an Ad. A typical example
Hi Anash.
Thanks for the quick reply and clearing that up. It makes sense.
I will say that I've been using the API for years, and I've always taken
that page on id uniqueness to mean that we had to be careful within our
code and database to deal with the possibility that an ad id might be
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.
-
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
