CRITERIA PERFORMANCE REPORT is empty

[Aram T]

Starting from October 28 , we are getting empty CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT  .

I have updated to later API version (201409) and found that it is empty when "Date" field is included in the selector fields list for any Date range, otherwise it is not empty.

Customer Id 302-410-1700.

Thanks

Aram

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Aram,

The Date field is not zero impression rows compatible (see the Supports Zero Impressions column in the report fields list). This means that when you add Date to your request's list of fields, AdWords will only return rows for which the row's criterion has Impressions > 0.

Do the campaigns/adgroups/criteria you're selecting actually have any impressions for the date range of your report?

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Aram T]

However , when I put includeZeroImpressions = true in the definition, the report is returning data.

Have checked  impressions column in the report , for most rows it is empty but there are also a lot of rows with non zero values.

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Aram,

Could you provide the exact report request (field names, predicates, date range) that you are submitting that does not return any data? I just ran Criteria Performance Reports for that account excluding zero impressions for THIS_MONTH and received many rows back, both with and without the Date field in the request, so I'd like to see how our requests differ.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Pearl Jam]

Hi,

we observe a similar behavior at KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT.

Our RequestFields are "AdGroupId", "Id","KeywordText","KeywordMatchType" and "QualityScore" (no segmentation) and we set IncludeZeroImpressions to FALSE.
Since October these reports are empty, but if we include the field "Impressions" in our Request, everything worked fine.
It seems, that we now must include all Fields, that we filter on.

Jam

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Jam,

You don't need to include all fields -- you just need to include at least one Metric field such as Impressions, either in your predicate or in your fields list.

I'm checking with the reporting team to see if this is a change in behavior (it sounds like it is from the feedback from you and others on this thread). I'll post back once I have an update.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Aram T]

Hi Josh 

The inclusion of Impressions column into CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT resolved the issue, even without specifying includeZeroImpressions , which is false by default . This is really change in behavior.

Thanks