Shopping campaign bid question

2014-06-27 Thread John Lister
Hi, when creating other types of AdGroup criteria it is possible to leave out the bids and use the group default, however it looks as if the bid is required for a shopping campaign on a UNIT partition type. Is this correct and is it likely to be changed in the future to allow the use of the grou

Shopping campaigns bid questions

2014-06-27 Thread John Lister
Hi, I have a couple of questions regarding shopping campaigns while I migrate all my code over. Firstly is it possible to use the group bid as a default as with other adgroup criteria or do shopping campaigns always require a bid. The errors I get and behaviour of the user interface seem to dem

Class not found exception using 1.12.0

2012-12-13 Thread John Lister
Hi, I've just tried to use the latest adwords version and get the following error when using maven: ClassNotFoundException: org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal full exception trace below, it all works fine if I specify 1.11.0 Using the jars directory seems to work ok. I've just started using the API,

ClassNotFound exception using latest api version with maven

2012-12-13 Thread John Lister
Hi, I've just started using the adwords api, so I'm probably doing something wrong but can't spot it.. Using the latest (1.12.0) release of the api gives me a ClassNotFound exception for the org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal class when I use the maven dependencies. If I use the previous release (1.1

Re: ClassNotFound exception using latest api version with maven

2012-12-18 Thread John Lister
Cheers, works now. Sorry I posted twice as my first post didn't show up on the forum so I assumed I'd not actually posted it. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwor

test account query

2012-12-19 Thread John Lister
Hi, I registered for a test account and it looks to have been approved. However prior to the approval, some updates were made to the account and it was showing in the web user interface as what looked to be a normal account. I can see that the cost for updates is now 0, so it does indeed appear

Multiple stats for a single keyword

2012-12-20 Thread John Lister
Hi, using the GetKeywords example from java as a basis, I'm pulling back stats for all my keywords. However for each keyword listed I get 3 values pulled back. The sum/avg of these values matches what is displayed in the UI, but I can't see what differentiates them when pulled through the api. I

Re: How can I get all the stats related to a keyword?

2012-12-26 Thread John Lister
Yes, see the GetKeywords example, simply add the fieds you want to the list. On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 11:13:32 UTC, Kapil wrote: > > Hey, I want to collect all the stats related to a particular keyword like > keyword id, clicks, ctr etc. Is it possible to get it without downloading > the r

Re: Multiple stats for a single keyword

2012-12-26 Thread John Lister
e.google.com/p/google-api-ads-java/source/browse/examples/adwords_axis/src/main/java/adwords/axis/v201209/reporting/DownloadCriteriaReportWithAwql.java > > AdNetworkType looks like the column you are looking for. > > > -Danial, AdWords API Team. > > > > On Thursday,

Re: Multiple stats for a single keyword

2012-12-27 Thread John Lister
> > You can add additional fields to see what the difference is, see this > document as a reference: > > > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/selectorfields#v201209-AdGroupCriterionService > I've tried to add all the fields I could find but none seem to differentiate bet

Re: Does the AdWords API support authentication via service accounts (OAuth 2.0)?

2012-12-29 Thread John Lister
Hi, has anyone found a way to authorise a service client id to access the adwords api without using google apps for business? I'm struggling with the NOT_ADS_USER error as well... I've created the service account id and key using my MCC account details, but do I need to create it as a normal us

Oauth2 questions

2012-12-30 Thread John Lister
Hi, I've previously been using the ClientLogin authentication, but am currently in the process of switching to using OAuth2 with the java libs and have a few questions. Firstly as this is for a service style process running in the background making updates over a numer of accounts, so I initial

Re: What is the maximum limit of number of objects that can exist in each level?

2012-12-31 Thread John Lister
Is there a limit to the number of deleted objects per account? Specifically ads as these have to be replaced rather than changed, the numbers below only list active/paused ads. Another post also mentioned around 20 ads per group, again is this only active/paused ones? Thanks John On Thursday,

Re: Does the AdWords API support authentication via service accounts (OAuth 2.0)?

2013-01-06 Thread John Lister
Thanks, I'm using the refresh token now - but was trying to get the service accounts working as that is what I'd used with other apis, eg: analytics, etc Thanks -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com

Query Product Extension IDs

2013-01-07 Thread John Lister
Hi, I'm trying to create a PLA campaign using the Java API and I've come across a problem which I suspect is a complete misunderstanding of how the api works. Could you tell me the correct way to add ProductExtension to an a campaign using the api, I've tried a few things but come up against a

Re: Cannot get, or add ProductAdExtensions

2013-01-09 Thread John Lister
Hi, is there any news on when this feature may be added to the api? That and being able to assign labels would be extremely useful. Thanks On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:30:44 UTC, Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi > > Unfortunately ProductionExtension can't be still added via

Re: OAuth 2.0 and link between MCC and new Customers Accounts

2013-01-13 Thread John Lister
Hi, if you are using oauth2, you can get rid of the ads.properties file altogether. Use the oauth2 example to generate your refresh token - After the line with authorizationFlow.createAndStoreCredential, simply save the value of credential.getRefreshToken(). When you run this make sure you put

Re: OAuth 2.0 and link between MCC and new Customers Accounts

2013-01-13 Thread John Lister
Sorry, cut and pasted but missed off you'll need to add .withEnvironment(AdWordsSession.Environment.PRODUCTION) to the session builder line John On Sunday, 13 January 2013 08:30:33 UTC, John Lister wrote: > > Hi, if you are using oauth2, you can get rid of the ads.properties file &

Re: is there a way to get the object status with no dependency on their performance?

2013-01-14 Thread John Lister
Pretty sure the reports will return all objects, unless you add something like "Impressions > 0' to the query (or a similar predicate) John On Sunday, 13 January 2013 14:10:36 UTC, nf7588 wrote: > > hi, > > is there a way to get via report the object status (ad/campaign/adgroup > id and status

Re: OAuth 2.0 and link between MCC and new Customers Accounts

2013-01-15 Thread John Lister
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:43:11 UTC, Stamatina Thomaidou wrote: > > Chris thank you a lot for your answer but I do not think that answers to > our speculation. Maybe I didn't explain correctly the issue. :( > > The problem is that the returning value of ClientCustomerId of the Client > tha

Re: Getting campaign status - "Deleted".

2013-01-18 Thread John Lister
Yes, add a predicate of status in [active, paused, deleted], the default is to not return deleted elements in reports John On Thursday, 17 January 2013 13:43:13 UTC, ShayBarChen wrote: > > Hey , > > Is it possible to get Campign in status "deleted" in AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT > with the following

Re: Keyword status in report [Low Search Volume]

2013-01-20 Thread John Lister
Hi, I was wondering if there was any progress with adding this (and also if possible the "states" such as "Below First Page Bid") to the reporting functionality in the API. I note that these are available via the website reporting which I would have thought used the same underlying technology?

Re: API Quota Usage Report?

2013-01-22 Thread John Lister
Not sure if this will help, but you can download the change history as a csv file for example which should list all the operations performed against an account (unfortunately it looks like this has to be done for each account). This should give you a good idea of the operations performed and by

Re: API Quota Usage Report?

2013-01-22 Thread John Lister
Forgot to add this, alternatively the CustomerSyncService can probably do the same thing through the api... John On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:38:37 UTC, John Lister wrote: > > Not sure if this will help, but you can download the change history as a > csv file for example which should

Re: Ad disapproval reasons are null in v200909

2013-01-28 Thread John Lister
I know this is an old post, but the issue still exists - The disapproval reason is always null. Any advice? Thanks John On Friday, 22 October 2010 09:31:23 UTC+1, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > > Hi Valentin, > > Will it be possible to post a requestid for a request you are making? > I could us

MutateJobService question

2013-02-06 Thread John Lister
Hi, when using the BulkMutateJob service, is it possible to save the job IDs and query for them with a different Job service, possibly in a different environment/executable. I'm thinking for example if I schedule a load of jobs and my program crashes but I've saved the job IDs, can I query for

Re: Ad disapproval reasons are null in v200909

2013-02-13 Thread John Lister
Full soap log as can't attach anything - sorry John *** 2013-02-13 22:25:28,729 INFO AdsServiceLoggers: *** SOAP Request: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>

Re: Ad disapproval reasons are null in v200909

2013-02-13 Thread John Lister
Sorry for some reason the reply I posted a few days ago doesn't seem to have come through. I've re-run the java examples (both awql and not) with the same results. Although this time I had problems getting it to pull back a disapproved ad, so search all adgroups not just restricting it as in the

Updating/adding budgets using mutateJobService

2013-02-14 Thread John Lister
Hi, is the adwords team likely to add budgets to the mutateJobService. I see from the docs that budgets aren't listed as valid operations, but the result includes budget operations so I thought maybe the docs were wrong, but calling it with a budget results in a "Cannot resolve 'ns2:BudgetOpera

Concurrent limit for MutateJobService

2013-02-14 Thread John Lister
I noted that the docs for the deprecated BulkMutateJobService state that at most 10 concurrent requests can be uploaded, but the docs for MutateJobService don't give any limit. Is there a limit and is the behaviour on reaching this limit the same? Thanks John -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

Re: MutateJobService question

2013-02-15 Thread John Lister
Best, > > - David Torres - AdWords API Team > > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:18:50 PM UTC-5, John Lister wrote: >> >> Hi, when using the BulkMutateJob service, is it possible to save the job >> IDs and query for them with a different Job service, possibly in a >&

Detect operation that caused error on Bulk Job

2013-02-15 Thread John Lister
Hi, when I do a BulkJob I can see in the results the type of object operated on by querying the operand object, however when an error occurs I can't seem to find a way to get the same information. Although the error is usually a subclass of error that indicates sometimes the object in question

Re: Detect operation that caused error on Bulk Job

2013-02-18 Thread John Lister
> -Danial, AdWords API Team. > > > > On Saturday, February 16, 2013 12:58:24 AM UTC+4, John Lister wrote: >> >> Hi, when I do a BulkJob I can see in the results the type of object >> operated on by querying the operand object, however when an error occurs I >>

Re: Detect operation that caused error on Bulk Job

2013-02-18 Thread John Lister
get as described here: > > > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/bestpractices#group_operations > > So you may want to consider to send separate jobs for campaigns and > criteria. > > > -Danial, AdWords API Team. > > > On Monday, February 18, 2013

Re: Detect operation that caused error on Bulk Job

2013-02-18 Thread John Lister
tion that failed to find exact operation, although it > might seem excessive it does the trick. > > Hope that helps. > > On Monday, 18 February 2013 12:12:06 UTC, John Lister wrote: >> >> I do group all operations as recommended, I just try to send them in as >&g

Difference between web ui and reports

2013-02-21 Thread John Lister
Hi, I'm running the following adHoc report to grab all the keywords in a current campaign with the aim of importing it into my system: "SELECT CampaignId, Id, AdGroupId, Status, MaxCpc, KeywordText, KeywordMatchType FROM KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT WHERE Status IN [ACTIVE, PAUSED, DELETED] AND C

Re: Campaign performance report beta feature feild not returned with V201209

2013-02-27 Thread John Lister
You need to be registered as a beta tester in order to access any beta fields, etc John -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~

Ad Parameter feature requests

2013-03-03 Thread John Lister
HI, probably too late for the (hopefully) soon released API next version, but I have a few feature requests for the parameter side of the api which would be great to see in a new release, I'll be honest and while most of the API is great, it does feel like the parameters were tagged on last min

Re: Difference between web ui and reports

2013-03-03 Thread John Lister
> > > Are you still experiencing this issue? do you still see this keyword > attached to the ad group? > > Thanks, but I've just done some more tests, and I've found out why it was there and feel slightly foolish/more awake than before... The keyword in question is a negative keyword - I just l

Re: OAuth2

2013-03-05 Thread John Lister
see for my previous description: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adwords-api/sX9h-48LuKY -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

Re: Ad Parameter feature requests

2013-03-15 Thread John Lister
nial, AdWords API Team. > > > On Sunday, March 3, 2013 9:09:58 PM UTC+4, John Lister wrote: >> >> HI, probably too late for the (hopefully) soon released API next version, >> but I have a few feature requests for the parameter side of the api which >> would b

Re: Deleted ProductPartition criterion becomes a Product criterion - is this correct

2014-09-09 Thread John Lister
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:15:21 PM UTC+1, Chuck Reeves wrote: > > Instead of removing the partitions, why not just disable the bids on them > ? This way when they come back on you wont need to rebuild the whole tree > > Sorry maybe an obvious question, but how do you disable the bids on th

Write access denied when doing an exemption request

2014-12-18 Thread John Lister
Hi I'm trying to upload an exemption request using the current version of the Java api, this code I believe was working a year or so ago with an older version of the api. I can get the policy violation and create the exemption request if it is exemptable but when I resubmit the ad for review I