Is it possible to use conditional operation execution on BatchJobService?

[Justinas Ringaila]

Hi, 

I'm trying to update Ad (actually to remove it and recreate new one with updated fields).

I created two operations:

 operations = new[]

                {

                    new AdGroupAdOperation

                    {

                        @operator = Operator.ADD,

                        operand = adGroupAd

                    },

                    new AdGroupAdOperation

                    {

                        @operator = Operator.REMOVE,

                        operand = new AdGroupAd

                        {

                            adGroupId = adGroupAd.adGroupId,

                            ad = new Ad {id = oldId}

                        },

                    }

                };

Then the array of these operations is sent through BatchJobService at once (will be generated one batch job Id). I want to be sure that before removing the ad, the new one was created. In case of failure to create Ad I don't want to remove the old one. Is it possible to achieve it using just one batch job call to Adwords api? 

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Justinas,

I don't think a single BatchJob call will be able to do this. If you want to remove and recreate an Ad, I would recommend that you follow the steps below

1. Create the new ad in the PAUSED state.
2. Wait for the new ad's approvalStatus to become APPROVED.
3. Issue a subsequent single mutate request with two operations: a) Set the new ad to ENABLED and b) Set the old ad to DISABLED.

This should ensure that the old ad is only disabled once the new ad is running.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.