Audience Performance Report: clickType value is empty string

[Eric B]

Report: AUDIENCE_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

reference: 

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/audience-performance-report#clicktype

Issue: When we run with the column selection below, we were getting results for some of our clients where clickType="".

<column name="adGroupID" display="Ad group ID"/>

<column name="criterionID" display="Criterion ID"/>

<column name="campaignID" display="Campaign ID"/>

<column name="avgPosition" display="Avg. position"/>

<column name="impressions" display="Impressions"/>

<column name="clicks" display="Clicks"/>

<column name="cost" display="Cost"/>

<column name="day" display="Day"/>

<column name="network" display="Network"/>

<column name="clickType" display="Click type"/>

<column name="device" display="Device"/>

<column name="audience" display="Audience"/>

This does not affect all of our clients, and we are unsure of what triggered it.  After it happened yesterday, it appeared fixed when it ran overnight.  Here is a excerpt of the report: 

<row audience="{removed}" device="Mobile devices with full browsers" clickType="" network="Search Network" day="2017-01-02" cost="0" clicks="0" impressions="2" avgPosition="1.0" campaignID="{removed}" criterionID="{removed}" adGroupID="{removed}"/>

Also, the report had only a portion of the rows with the empty string clickType. The majority of the rows did have a valid clickType.

Questions: 

1. Does anyone else have a similar issue?

2. Was there a temporary bug that has been fixed on the Google side?

3. Is the value of empty string ever valid for clickType and should we assume it's value means "unknown"?

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Eric, 

We are aware of this problem and our team is currently looking into it. I will provide more updates as we have them.

Thanks,

Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team

[Test Sem]

Are there any updates on the status of this fix?

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hi, 

This issue is actively being worked on but I don't have an update on when the fix will be available. I will update this thread once there is progress.