Hello Boris, Zweitze,
Thank you for the feedback. I'll check if we can introduce this field in
the future API versions.
-Danial, AdWords API Team.
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:42:52 PM UTC+4, Boris Savic wrote:
>
> Thank you Zweitze, you explained problem much better :)
>
> I was thinking about using ConversionTypeName field, but I assumed that
> there is simpler way to do this.
>
> Boris
>
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:29:36 UTC+2, Zweitze wrote:
>>
>> Danial,
>>
>> I think Boris is quite unfortunate in phrasing the question. The issue is
>> this: Most reports allow segmentation by conversion type, and to do that
>> you ask for field ConversionTypeName. Unfortunately, conversion type names
>> can be changed in the AdWords web interface. So, if you need multiple
>> reports, or the same report multiple times, you cannot match conversion
>> types between those reports.
>> The solution is to add immutable conversion tracker ids to reports - just
>> as we have campaigns and campaignids, etc.
>>
>> I asked exactly that question ("Conversion Tracker ID in AdWords API
>> reports?") through mail and got an answer by David Torres on March 1 2012,
>> stating that the engineering team will look into it. Apparently (I never
>> got a response after the first mail) that was implemented poorly, since the
>> conversion tracker id is missing in most reports.
>>
>> So I think Boris wants to see immutable conversion ids in campaign
>> reports.
>> Workaround for that issue:
>>
>> 1. Use ConversionTrackerService.get() to get all conversion names and
>> their IDs.
>> 2. Get all the reports you need, and ask for ConversionTypeName. Look up
>> the conversion type names in the result from the ConversionTrackerService.
>> 3. Call ConversionTrackerService.get() AGAIN, and compare its results to
>> the previous results. If anything is changed, throw all reports away and
>> start over again.
>>
>> Note this scheme does not protect you for situations where conversion
>> type names were changed and subsequently reversed, all during step two. You
>> can't have it all...
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 2:02:51 PM UTC+2, Danial Klimkin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Boris,
>>>
>>>
>>> ConversionTracker is an account-level object, so I don't fully
>>> understand the kind of report you are trying to build. Please check if you
>>> can use the destination URL report for your purpose:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#destination-url
>>>
>>>
>>> -Danial, AdWords API Team.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:18:18 AM UTC+4, Boris Savic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to get Account Performance Report by list of Conversion
>>>> Tracker IDs and Campaign IDs. I have figured out that using
>>>> "ReportDefinitionService" I can use "ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT" and
>>>> specify list of Conversion Tracker Ids to get account performance report,
>>>> and I can use "CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT" and specify list of campaigns
>>>> to get campaign performance reports, but how can I combine those two to
>>>> get
>>>> report by Conversion Tracker IDs and Campaign IDs? Is this possible?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>
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