Having trouble creating a new campaign with biddingStrategyType BUDGET_OPTIMIZER

[Alan Coleman]

Hello everyone,

I have a campaign that I'd like to duplicate with the following BiddingStrategyConfiguration object

object(BiddingStrategyConfiguration)[52]
      public 'biddingStrategyId' => null
      public 'biddingStrategyName' => null
      public 'biddingStrategyType' => string 'BUDGET_OPTIMIZER' (length=16)
      public 'biddingStrategySource' => null
      public 'biddingScheme' => 
        object(BudgetOptimizerBiddingScheme)[53]
          public 'bidCeiling' => 
            object(Money)[55]
              ...
          public 'enhancedCpcEnabled' => boolean false
          public 'BiddingSchemeType' => string 'BudgetOptimizerBiddingScheme' (length=28)
          private '_parameterMap' (BiddingScheme) => 
            array (size=1)
              ...
      public 'bids' => null

I'm using the following to create the biddingStrategyConfiguration

$biddingStrategyConfiguration->biddingStrategyType = 'BUDGET_OPTIMIZER';
$campaign->biddingStrategyConfiguration = $biddingStrategyConfiguration;

Which is producing the following bidding error

object(BiddingErrors)[36]
          public 'reason' => string 'CANNOT_ATTACH_BIDDING_STRATEGY_TO_CAMPAIGN' (length=42)
          public 'fieldPath' => string 'operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.biddingStrategyType' (length=70)
          public 'trigger' => string 'BUDGET_OPTIMIZER' (length=16)
          public 'errorString' => string 'BiddingErrors.CANNOT_ATTACH_BIDDING_STRATEGY_TO_CAMPAIGN' (length=56)
          public 'ApiErrorType' => string 'BiddingErrors' (length=13)

Here is the SOAP error

    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
      <faultstring>[SelectorError.MISSING_PREDICATE_VALUES @ serviceSelector]</faultstring>
      <detail>
        <ApiExceptionFault xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201406">
          <message>[SelectorError.MISSING_PREDICATE_VALUES @ serviceSelector]</message>
          <ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>
          <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="SelectorError">
            <fieldPath>serviceSelector</fieldPath>
            <trigger/>
            <errorString>SelectorError.MISSING_PREDICATE_VALUES</errorString>
            <ApiError.Type>SelectorError</ApiError.Type>
            <reason>MISSING_PREDICATE_VALUES</reason>
          </errors>
        </ApiExceptionFault>
      </detail>
    </soap:Fault>

Since providing a bidding scheme is optional I'm at a loss to know what this is.

I have read the following documentation:

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201406/CampaignService.Campaign

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201406/CampaignService.BiddingStrategyConfiguration

Has anyone had experience here they could share?

Many thanks

[Oliver]

I thought Budget Optimizer strategies were deprecated a long time ago?

Oliver

[Alan Coleman]

Thanks for commenting Oliver,

BUDGET_OPTIMIZER is in the API Documentation 

I'm just trying to replicate a campaign as closely as possible.

Thanks again.

[Oliver]

Please check this post:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/pRY0N6yQzvE

[Alan Coleman]

Thanks Oliver,

So what Josh is pointing out here is that the Budget Optimizer fields were read only from v201402

Thanks again Oliver.