Hi John, The basic hierarchy of an AdWords account is as follows:
Campaigns - Ad Groups - Ads - Criteria If an entity is paused none of it's child entities will serve. There is no way in the API to look at an ad and determine if it is serving, you'll need to look at both the ad group and campaign status to get the full picture. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Nov 13, 10:42 am, John Hinnegan <john.hinne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, > > So maybe there's a reference that explains this, but I haven't found it > yet. I'm trying to best undersand how pausing and activating "things" > works. > > There are a variety of things that can be paused or active at any given > time, and they're in a hierarchy. > Example: > > Campaign: Active > Ad_group: Active > Ad: Active > > Ad shows. > > Great. Now, is the logic basically that any paused in the hierarchy > causes the ad to pause? > i.e. > Campaign: Active > Ad_group: Paused > Ad: Active > > So the ad won't show, correct? > > Assuming that's correct, what are all the different things that must be > Active for an ad to show? > > (I want a way to verify if a particular ad is showing at a given time > or not, and also a way to be sure that if I 'activate' an ad, that > there's nothing upstream of it preventing it from showing. ) > > I'm doing all this through the API, which is why I'm asking here. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
