On Feb 11, 5:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Kumar, > > The status field in v2009 indicates the status set by the user, which > can be ACTIVE, PAUSED, or DELETED. There is now a separate field > which indicates whether or not the campaign is actual serving ads, > which is called servingStatus: > > http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/CampaignServ... > > In your situation the status should be ACTIVE (because you intend for > the campaign to serve eventually) and the servingStatus will be > PENDING until the start date is reached, at which point it will change > to SERVING.
Aha, thank you. This all seems very obvious now :) > > Best, > - Eric > > On Feb 10, 4:05 pm, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM, AdWords API Advisor > > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > > Hi Kumar, > > > > If you try to reset the start date of a campaign using the v2009 > > > version of the API you should get a > > > CampaignError.CANNOT_MODIFY_START_DATE_IF_ALREADY_STARTED error. Are > > > you seeing different behavior? > > > [whoops, meant to send this to the list] > > > I am only talking about creating new campaigns. So, I create a new > > campaign and set its startDate to something in the future. > > Previously, this would automatically set that campaign's status to > > paused. Do I have to do that manually now? I assume that the > > campaign would not serve ads until its date so it doesn't make sense > > why its status would be "active." Am I the only one seeing this > > behavior? > > > thanks, > > Kumar > > > > Once a campaign has started you should update the status to pause or > > > activate a campaign. > > > > Best, > > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > > On Feb 9, 3:35 pm, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi. > > >> I am migrating our system from AdWords API v13 to v2009 and one of our > > >> tests is failing because after setting a campaign date to some future > > >> date the campaign is not paused, it is still active. On the old > > >> version, the campaign would get paused automatically. Should I assume > > >> that when setting a campaign start date to a future date that it will > > >> not run ads? If that's the case, why would its status be returned as > > >> "active" using the v2009 API? I verified that the startDate is in > > >> fact getting set to a future date (per the API). > > > >> thanks, > > >> Kumar > > > > -- > > > 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-...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en. -- 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-...@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.
