As I understand the original question, the problem is that the v13 reporting "destinationUrl" column included the URL to which traffic was actually sent when a click occurred for a specific keyword/ad combination. This is what we care about in reporting as we need to extract variables and tracking IDs from the URL.
The Reporting Migration Guide (http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/ docs/reportguide.html#ad_performance) maps the destinationUrl in the v13 Creative report to the CreativeDestinationUrl column in the Ad Performance report. This appears to be incorrect. This post - (http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/ 2fbaa9779f33776c - explains the issue and, I believe, the correct mapping (which, unfortunately, means you have to pull and join a total of 3 separate reports to get the information in the v13 Creative report). I'm all for good data modeling, but this isn't really "reporting" any more so much as it is pulling down a dump of tables and sorting it all out ourselves. The Docs also refer to "cross-referencing" various reports. Is there some way to "cross-reference" in the API that I'm missing? Or does "cross-reference" actually mean "download these 3 reports, dump them into a database, then do a query that joins what you want"? On Jan 13, 9:38 am, Eric Koleda <eric.kol...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > Some fields have two names in reports due to legacy reasons and for > backwards compatibility. We do recommend that you fetch performance data > separately from structural data. > > Best, > - Eric -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
