Hi Oliver, I believe this is an internal detail that leaked into the public API. We strongly recommend using CustomerId field (ExternalCustomerId) as it is the ID used everywhere else for your account.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Friday, August 31, 2012 6:44:30 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: > > Thanks for your response. I'm using adhoc reports v201206. > > I tried getting the Account report for various clients to try and make > sense of this ID. It seems to me that the AccountId is simply your > internal ID by which you identify an account (very much like CampaignId, > AdgroupId, etc.). > > So I guess that's the ID I should use to refer to an account > programmatically, and not the Customer ID. > > Oliver > > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 8:57:12 AM UTC+1, Anash P. Oommen wrote: >> >> Hi Oliver, >> >> Which version of the report are you using? Do you have an example report >> definition? >> >> Cheers, >> Anash P. Oommen, >> AdWords API Advisor. >> >> On Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:37:07 UTC+5:30, Oliver wrote: >>> >>> The Account report has 2 ID fields; AccountId and ExternalCustomerId. >>> >>> ExternalCustomerId is the 10 digit ID of the adwords account I'm >>> accessing via the API. >>> >>> So what is AccountId? It's an 8 digit number that doesn't correspond to >>> anything I see on the interface. It's not the ID of the MCC to which the >>> token belong either (that ID is 10 digit as well). >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Oliver >>> >>> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
