Hi Oliver, You are correct in that if you only look at the data in the report it's not possible to differentiate data from one account to another without the AccountId. However, when you download the report, you are required to specify a clientCustomerId. We recommend storing this ID along with the report data you received.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:45:02 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > Going back to this question, the AccountId I was referring to in the > Account Report is also a field that is included in a lot of other reports. > e.g. a Campaign report will have an AccountId to link that campaign to an > account. > > If we stop using it then there is no way to link any entity to its account > when we have multiple accounts in the database. > > Can you confirm how exactly we can associate a campaign to its account if > not by AccountId? > > Oliver > > On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:13:52 PM UTC+1, Kevin Winter wrote: >> >> 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
