Hi all,
I noticed that newly created ads containing a headline or a description
line starting with whitespace will be trimmed automatically, e.g. when
creating a TextAd like so:
{'ad': {
'headline': ' My headline',
'description1': 'A description',
'description2': 'More description',
'd
Update: I fiddled around some more, and it turns out this has nothing to do
with the trimming. The issue is that in CSV reports, fields that start with
a hyphen are prepended with a space. For example: I created an ad in the
Web UI, starting the text lines with different interpunctuation symbols
Hi Dorian,
I'll investigate this at my end. The CSV reports shouldn't be different
from xml reports.
Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen
AdWords API Advisor
On Friday, June 28, 2013 5:38:29 PM UTC+5:30, Dorian Kind wrote:
>
> Update: I fiddled around some more, and it turns out this has nothing to
> do wi
I just realized that this might be connected to the way that the "Total"
row is formatted (which is not available in XML reports). There, values
that cannot be aggregated are indicated with the string ' --', two hyphens
preceded by a space. Maybe the logic that inserts the spaces in the "Total"
If anyone else stumbles upon this, the described behavior is still in
effect. Any attributes that start with a hyphen are prepended with a space
character in CSV reports. Workaround is to simply trim the values, as (to
the best of my knowledge) attributes cannot start with a space.
On Wednesda
