Hello Rob, The Sandbox, as you point out, does not provide any actual report data. The ReportService in the Sandbox is hopefully useful for when developing or testing code to schedule and download reports.
When it comes to report processing, I'd recommend that you develop and test against a report or set of reports specific to your accounts. The easiest, and free, way to generate such reports is to use the AdWords web interface to set up a report with the same options of your choosing, and then download the XML of version of that report from the web interface. Everything other than Structure reports should be available via the web interface. You could of course generate the reports that you'd test your processing code against via the Production ReportService, but that obviously incurs a charge of 500 API units. Once you have a set of reports that contain all the columns that you'd like and some actual statistics relevant to your account, just reference one of the reports locally during your development or testing process when it comes time to parse your report. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 21, 9:27 am, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was less than helpful and if it saves me API units to do all of > my dev on a good dev enviroment then yes it is important. > > Rob > > On Jan 20, 6:08 pm, "Jan Piotrowski (AdWords API Guru)" > > <piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't pay for the dev environment. Do you? ;) > > > - Jan > > > On 20 Jan., 23:04, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to develop an app and am having very little luck with > > > reporting, from what I've seen no matter what report I call I get the > > > following url > > > >https://sandbox.google.com/sandboxreports/defined.xml > > > > Which of course has generic data. > > > > So am I right or am I missing some detail and If this is the way the > > > sandbox is there a place where I can see what the reports are supposed > > > to look like? > > > > Google! your sandbox sucks, its completely inappropriate for > > > development, a proper sandbox should emulate the production enviroment > > > almost exactly. > > > > Is there a reason why we pay for this service and have a terrible dev > > > enviroment? Really I'm just frustrated there must be some reasonable > > > answer? > > > > Thanks > > > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
