Hi, recently I visited a Google Ads API workshop in London where I asked whether it was possible to change the targeting setting of a campaign using the Google Ads API from 'Bid Only' to 'Target and Bid' or vice versa. We want to automate this because when adding a user list to a campaign using the API, the targeting setting of the campaign immediately defaults to 'Target and Bid' which we do not want. I was told it should be possible and I should look at the campaign.targeting_setting.target_restrictions. I managed to figure out how to create the update operator, however when I do mutate_campaigns with my list of operations I get an error stating that *"Field \'targeting_setting.target_restrictions\' cannot be modified by \'UPDATE\' operation"*
Since the documentation <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/fields/campaign> does not state that the campaign.targeting_setting.target_restrictions field is immutable I am wondering what is going on. Am I doing something wrong here? Or is the field indeed immutable through the API? The way I construct the operation is given below. Any help would be greatly appreciated. # Initialize campaign criterion operation and user list resource campaign_service = account_client.get_service('CampaignService', version= 'v1') campaign_operation = account_client.get_type('CampaignOperation', version= 'v1') targeting_setting = account_client.get_type('TargetingSetting', version='v1' ) target_restrictions = account_client.get_type('TargetRestriction', version= 'v1') targeting_dimension = account_client.get_type('TargetingDimensionEnum', version='v1') # Prepare the target_restrictions target_restrictions.targeting_dimension = targeting_dimension.AUDIENCE target_restrictions.bid_only.value = False targeting_setting.target_restrictions.extend([target_restrictions]) # Create the operation and fill in campaign campaign_update = campaign_operation.update campaign_update.resource_name = campaign_service.campaign_path(account_id, campaign_id) campaign_update.targeting_setting.CopyFrom(targeting_setting) # Retrieve a FieldMask for the fields configured in the campaign. fm = protobuf_helpers.field_mask(None, campaign_update) campaign_operation.update_mask.CopyFrom(fm) Cheers and thanks. Ernst -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 and Google Ads API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/a838bdca-bc33-4e71-a151-d7d5d2f215a2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
