Hi Sergio Unfortunately it is the whole structure (parent / child) which does not match correctly, not the individual categories. I do not believe we can do this to mass majority of customers as we cannot guess the structure for each of them. It should be kind of exact match with PLA don't you think?
I would recommend Google to push the PLA deprecation date further until we get these issues fixed and allow a reasonable time-frame for customers to move over to the new Partition platform. Otherwise it is going to be a nightmare for Clients as well as for Google. Not a good way to introduce a new product I guess. Regards Eshaan On Monday, August 11, 2014 9:38:57 AM UTC-4, Sérgio Gomes (Shopping API Team) wrote: > Hi Eshaan, > > We are still on track for the deprecation, yes. We're working to solve > these issues as soon as possible, and in the meantime we can only recommend > using the category descriptions you get back from the ConstantDataService > to match up to the PLA descriptions as closely as possible. > > Cheers, > Sérgio > > --- > Sérgio Gomes > Developer Relations > > Google UK Limited > Registered Office: Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W > 9TQ > Registered in England Number: 3977902 > > > On Friday, 8 August 2014 20:11:57 UTC+1, Eshaan Jayalath wrote: >> >> Thanks Sergio >> >> Are we still on track for deprecating of Google PLA module in September? >> I am not sure how this is feasible without having the Categories mapped >> correctly. Is there a definite planed date for PLA deprecation? Everyone >> seriously wondering about this now. >> >> Regards >> >> Eshaan >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 8:55:17 AM UTC-4, Eshaan Jayalath wrote: >> >>> Problem: Mismatch of Google Category Structures between PLA & Shopping >>> Campaign Partitions. >>> >>> >>> We found that most of our Clients' Google PLA Category structures do not >>> match with the new Shopping Campaign Partition Category (1-5) structures. >>> Do we have any resolution to this major issue? As at now we cannot use most >>> of the existing PLA Google product category structures when posting data to >>> this new Google Shopping Campaign Partitions. When creating Partitions, it >>> always throw the error INVALID_PRODUCT_BIDDING_CATEGORY due to this reason. >>> Any solution to avoid this? Or Does Google have a plan to match Google >>> categories between Partitions & PLAs 100%. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
