Hello,
We recently realized that {lpurl} and it +2, +3 variants *do not* encode
forward slashes or colons and therefore leave http:// un-encoded. This is
an issue because we regularly deal with redirects chains or 2 or 3 sites
and some of those sites appear confused when http:// is not
http%25%3A%252F%252F (encoded twice).
To remedy this we were going to switch to {escapedlpurl} and it's +2, +3
variants as documented
here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6305348?hl=en&ref_topic=6031980
However, we seem unable to set a tracking template with this field using
the UI or the API:
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Hkgsu1sozLo/VvKvcDckNCI/AAAAAAAAAAs/wD1Q0v2xin02lX4WwH8qyvrAgpcn9mMTw/s1600/escapedlpurl.png>
SOAP Request/Response pair:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<RequestHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201601";>
<clientCustomerId
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>REDACTED</clientCustomerId>
<developerToken
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>REDACTED</developerToken>
<userAgent
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>REDACTED</userAgent>
<validateOnly
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>false</validateOnly>
<partialFailure
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>false</partialFailure>
</RequestHeader>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<mutate xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201601";>
<customer>
<customerId>8132517581</customerId>
<currencyCode>USD</currencyCode>
<dateTimeZone>America/New_York</dateTimeZone>
<descriptiveName>SE - Retail - AdWords</descriptiveName>
<testAccount>false</testAccount>
<trackingUrlTemplate>REDACTED</trackingUrlTemplate>
</customer>
</mutate>
</SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
<soap:Header>
<ResponseHeader
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201601";
xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>
<ns2:requestId>00052eb8ad9d81100a81304671065329</ns2:requestId>
<ns2:serviceName>CustomerService</ns2:serviceName>
<ns2:methodName>mutate</ns2:methodName>
<ns2:operations>1</ns2:operations>
<ns2:responseTime>43</ns2:responseTime>
</ResponseHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<soap:Fault>
<faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
<faultstring>[UrlError.MISSING_TRACKING_URL_TEMPLATE_TAG @
customer.trackingUrlTemplate; trigger:'REDACTED']</faultstring>
<detail>
<ApiExceptionFault
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201601";
xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201601";>
<ns2:message>[UrlError.MISSING_TRACKING_URL_TEMPLATE_TAG @
customer.trackingUrlTemplate; trigger:REDACTED']</ns2:message>
<ns2:ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ns2:ApplicationException.Type>
<ns2:errors
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:type="ns2:UrlError">
<ns2:fieldPath>customer.trackingUrlTemplate</ns2:fieldPath>
<ns2:trigger>REDACTED/ns2:trigger>
<ns2:errorString>UrlError.MISSING_TRACKING_URL_TEMPLATE_TAG</ns2:errorString>
<ns2:ApiError.Type>UrlError</ns2:ApiError.Type>
<ns2:reason>MISSING_TRACKING_URL_TEMPLATE_TAG</ns2:reason>
</ns2:errors>
</ApiExceptionFault>
</detail>
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
Any advice on why this happens? I can provide any more needed information.
Thanks.
Hunter.
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