I implemented the solution I described which "clones" my ad in order
to update the destination URL. This strategy worrks fine with text
and mobile ads. However it fails with image ads because the API does
not seem to return the image data associated with the image ad. All
the rest of the Ad.Image attribute fields (eg. heighth, width) are
filled in, but the Image.data field is null when I retrieve it via
AdService.getAd() This makes it impossible to create a new ad based
on this image ad, and as such I cannot change the destination URL
using my copy and delete strategy.
Is there (or will there ever be) a way to get the image data returned
for the image ad?
Thanks again.
Tim
On Feb 23, 12:39 pm, AdWords API Advisor
<adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
> AdWords does not allow for editing the destination URL of an ad, and
> the API reflects this restriction. If you use the web interface to
> "change" the destination URL of a given ad, you're really mimicking
> the API workflow you describe--a new copy of the ad is created with a
> different destination URL, and the old copy is deleted. You can see
> for yourself that the process of editing the destination URL of an ad
> via the web interface results in a new ad with a different id.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
>
> On Feb 23, 10:44 am, tozor <t...@adlucent.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm curious why AdService.updateAds() is so limited in terms of the
> > attributes that can be updated. One aspect of my application involves
> > updating URL parameters in the destination URL. This works fine for
> > placements and keywords but I have no way to do this for an Ad. I'm
> > curious if anyone else is bothered by this restriction and if the
> > Adwords folks have any plans to allow more ad attributes to be updated
> > in the future. My only alternative is to "clone" the ad by deleting
> > the old one and creating a new one. This is not a great solution
> > because I wil lose all of the history associated with the ad.
>
> > Thanks for listening.
>
> > Tim
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