Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-30 Thread Dorian Kind
Hi, another update (that's the last one, promised :). We did some tests and found that semicolons inside URLs are actually escaped. That's the good news. The bad news is that empty attributes are not returned in the Attribute Values field. Here's an example of actual downloaded data: "Placeho

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-29 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dorian, Unfortunately, that's correct. You won't be able to differentiate between a semicolon that's indicating a new attribute and a semicolon that's indicating another finalUrl or finalMobileUrl for the current attribute. I'll raise this with the reporting team to see if we can improve on

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-29 Thread Dorian Kind
Hi Josh, thanks again for your quick reply. To be honest I don't really know whether there will be a lot of these use cases at our company. We're just in the process of preparing our tools to handle Upgraded URLs so we will be ready for the migration in July, and we found the whole topic of mul

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-28 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dorian, The correct field type for *finalURLs* is *URL_LIST*. I'll fix the documentation accordingly -- thanks for pointing out this inconsistency. Regarding parsing the *AttributeValues* field, do you actually have cases where you are specifying multiple *finalURLs* for feed items? I ask be

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-28 Thread Dorian Kind
Hi Josh, a quick follow-up about URL lists from Upgraded URLs. In the Placeholder Feed Item Report, we can get a FeedItem's attribute values in the "AttributeValues" field, which contains a semicolon-delimited list of the FeedItem's attributes. Now, for a FeedItem representing a sitelink exten

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-23 Thread Dorian Kind
Hi Josh, many thanks for your quick and concise reply! Best regards, Dorian On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 10:28:31 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Dorian, > > AdWords allows multiple final URLs specifically for the use case where you > are *not* including *lpurl* in

Re: Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-22 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dorian, AdWords allows multiple final URLs specifically for the use case where you are *not* including *lpurl* in your tracking template. For example, if your tracking template is directing traffic to a tracker that redirects some traffic to one URL and other traffic to another URL, e.g., fo

Some questions regarding multiple final URLs

2015-04-22 Thread Dorian Kind
Hello there, >From the API documentation we know that the final URL fields of Ad objects ("finalUrls", "finalMobileUrls", "finalAppUrls") are lists. I'm having a hard time understanding how ad serving works if there are multiple final URLs for a given ad, for example, how does Adwords choose w