Duplicate criteria entries?

[eelco.v987]

Is it possible to enter duplicate entries for criteria?
Say in an automated process a list is inserted, but it happens to have
some duplicate criteria texts, would that be added or skipped because
it already exists?

Leading to the following, if it would be skipped, would that cost API
units?

[eelco.v987]

I hate to bump up this issue, but I would really like to know if it
costs API units if a criterion (text) already exists in the same
adgroup

Many htnkas in advance to any kind of information on this subject.

Regards
Eelco

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hello Eelco,

If you call addCriteria() and specify a Criterion object that already
exists for a given ad group (for instance, a Keyword who text and type
are both identical to an existing Keyword in the ad group) then the
call will still succeed. If you specify a different value for, say,
maxCpc in the newly added Criterion, then the existing keyword will
have its maxCpc value updated to the newly submitted value.

The addCriteria() call costs 25 units per Criterion included in the
request, regardless of whether the Criterion previously existed.

Cheers,
-Jeffrey Posnick, AdWords API Team

[eelco.v987]

Hi Jeffrey.
Thanks, that was exactly the information I was looking for.

Regards,
Eelco