Hi all, it seems that there was a recent change in the Adwords backend that allows you to create new campaigns with the same names as deleted ones. This is a quite drastic departure from the concept that all campaigns in an account need to have a unique name, as indicated in multiple locations in the documentation (both for the API and the end-user interface), for instance here <https://support.google.com/adwords/editor/answer/71810?hl=en> or here<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/common-errors#CampaignError> .
I have two questions: * Is this change going to stay? If yes, many code bases will have to be rewritten because they were built on the assumption that campaign names are unique within an account. * If this is an intentional and permanent change, was this communicated anywhere (I didn't see it on this list or on the Google Ads Developer Blog)? Will the documentation be updated (see above) to indicate the change? What was the motivation for the abrupt change? Many thanks for your feedback, this change has already impacted us quite severely and it would be very nice to have some authorative information on the matter. Cheers, Dorian -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
