Hi, We inadvertently pushed some incorrect validation for this attribute that affects v201109_1. V201109 should be unaffected an can be used as a temporary workaround. We hope to have a fix for this shortly. I apologize for the inconvenience.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:59:59 AM UTC-4, Alexander Nitschke wrote: > > I have an urgent problem: The TargetingIdeaService used to work fine - > until yesterday. There were no changes in the coding, but suddenly the > TargetingIdeaService is producing an exception > [TargetingIdeaError.INVALID_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE @ selector; > trigger:'CRITERION']. According to the doc, this exception could happen if > the IdeaType would be IdeaType.PLACEMENT along with an > AttributeType.CRITERION, understandably so. But our IdeaType is > IdeaType.KEYWORD as it always was, so this looks like a bug introduced > today. Any remedies are urgently needed. Here is our basic code snippet: > > Dim targetingIdeaService As TargetingIdeaService = > user.GetService(AdWordsService.v201109_1.TargetingIdeaService) > > ' Create the selector. > Dim selector As New TargetingIdeaSelector > selector.requestType = RequestType.IDEAS > selector.ideaType = IdeaType.KEYWORD > selector.requestedAttributeTypes = New AttributeType() > {AttributeType.CRITERION, AttributeType.AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES} > > ' Define paging to limit results. > Dim paging As New Paging > paging.startIndex = 0 > paging.numberResults = 200 > selector.paging = paging > > ' Create related to url search parameter. > Dim relatedToUrlSearchParameter As New RelatedToUrlSearchParameter > relatedToUrlSearchParameter.urls = New String() {url} > > ' Landesweit > Dim Location As New Location > Location.id = GCountryId > > Dim locationSearchParameter As New LocationSearchParameter > locationSearchParameter.locations = New Location() {Location} > > selector.searchParameters = New SearchParameter() > {relatedToUrlSearchParameter} > > Dim strMsg As String = "" > Try > Dim page As TargetingIdeaPage = > targetingIdeaService.get(selector) > > ' Code removed, here the Keywords are saved, but it doesn't > get here anyway > > Catch ex As Exception > strMsg = "Failed to retrieve related keywords. Exception says > " & ex.InnerException.Message > End Try > > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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