Not setting cpc_bid_micros for TARGET_SPEND campaign results in error

[Elias Bonnici]

Hi!

I am trying to create a shopping campaign with bidding strategy set to TARGET_SPEND. Hence, I don't want to be setting the cpc_bid_micros field for the Ad Groups. However, doing so results in an errror:

{"errorCode":{"fieldError":"REQUIRED"},"message":"The required field was not present.","location":{"fieldPathElements":[{"fieldName":"mutate_operations","index":192},{"fieldName":"ad_group_criterion_operation"},{"fieldName":"create"},{"fieldName":"cpc_bid_micros"}]}}

What can I do to avoid this problem?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Elias,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

For our team to further investigate this, could you please provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id) generated on your end when you are uploading this? Note that this can be requested or provided to the developer handling the Google Ads API transactions when logging of the API requests has been enabled.

These are the specific guidelines to enable it.

• Java - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/java/logging
• .Net - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/dotnet/logging
• PHP - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/php/logging
• Python - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/python/logging
• Ruby - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/ruby/logging
• Perl - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/perl/logging

You may then send the requested information via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Best regards,

Heidi Google Ads API Team

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