Hey Chris - I also ran into this discrepancy and asked the team about it in one of the last few hangouts & they confirmed that it is the expected (though arguably odd) behavior.
Best - Margaret On Feb 21, 8:15 am, Chris <chris.l...@sitewit.com> wrote: > While testing some of the v201109 functionality regarding the > switching of locations, languages and platforms to criterion I noticed > an inconsistency and was wondering if anyone knew how each of the > criterion types worked. Obviously when a location is not specified > then all locations are on and likewise with languages and platforms. > Now when you add a location or a language criterion to a campaign then > only those criterion are enabled. So if I had a campaign with no > languages specified (meaning all languages are enabled) and I make a > call to add the Language criterion for English; only English is > enabled for that Campaign. So far so good. this works the same way for > locations. > > Now if I have not specified a platform (meaning all platforms are > enabled) and I make a call to add the Desktop criterion to the > campaign then the campaign still has all Platforms enabled. I have to > make a call to remove the other two platforms in order to enable only > desktops. > > Obviously this is not that noticeable when editing existing campaigns > as you would normally look at what is enabled and what is desired and > run both the adds and removes, but when creating a new campaign this > is a little odd considering how the other criterion seem to work. I > have not run this test on Age Range, Carrier, Content Label, Gender, > Os Version or Placement yet and I was wondering if anyone knew which > way those functioned. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
