Condition, Channel and Channel Exclusivity values in PRODUCT_PARTITION_REPORT translated to campaign's "Country of sale" language

[HK]

Hi,

We just discovered that using the PRODUCT_PARTITION_REPORT (as a structure report) instead of calling get() for AdGroupCriterionService to get product groups, returns the condition, channel and channel exclusivity in the language that matches the campaign's "country of sale" settings. Is this intentional?

As an example for conditions, I would think it should match the enum that the AdGroupCriterionService get call returns for the same campaign. Otherwise we have to translate each one of the enum values for each of the supported countries to match what AdGroupCriterionService returns. Also, other values in the report are not translated to, in this case Polish, such as partitionType's - "unit". and "subdivision". More importantly, in the UI when working with product groups in the Polish campaign, it's showing "New", "Used", etc and not the Polish equivalent the report uses. Here's an example where "used" is translated to "używany":

productGroup='* / condition = "używany"

Here's one for "channel" for a Spanish campaign that I would expect to be "local":

productGroup='* / condition = * / channel = "tiendas locales"' 

One more for "channel exclusivity in Spanish":

productGroup='* / condition = * / channel = * / channel exclusivity = "canal único"' 

Thanks,

Hans

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Hans,

One of my teammates tried to reproduce what you're seeing and was unable to do so. Could you please click Reply privately to author in the forum and send me the customer ID of the account where you're seeing this when pulling the report? I haven't tried pulling the Product Partition report in multiple languages, so having your example would really help when I ask the engineers who created the report what they intended.

Thanks,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[HK]

Hi, Nadine

Where you able to repro now after I submitted the customer ID? We are trying to decide if we need to start the work to translate all of these attributes for each language, so any update would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Hans

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Hans,

I sent you a response earlier today directly through email rather than posting on the forum since it contained information specific to your account. Could you please double-check your email to see if you got an email from an @google.com address? Hopefully, it didn't pop into your spam folder. If you don't see it, I can resend it.

Thanks,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[adwor...@mercent.com]

Hi, Nadine

Sorry to bug you again. Any word back on whether this is a behavior that you will stick with? As mentioned, we'd rather avoid having to translate all the condition, channel and channel exclusivity values for each country, but we need to make a call on this within the next day.

Thanks,

Hans

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Nadine is on vacation today, but I will following up with engineering again to make sure that they're on top of it. From my point of view, this should be changed to match the rest of reporting in that results are always returned in English. As Nadine mentioned, someone will follow up on this thread as soon as we actually come to a conclusion about what will be done.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[HK]

Hi, Michael

Any indication from engineering whether this is desired behavior or not? We have manually translated the 98 values we need to for now, but as I'm sure you've figured out by now :-), would like to avoid having to do so for other langues we might support in the future.

Thanks,

Hans

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

I apologize that you had to go through that hassle because of this lack of turnaround time. I'm going to push on engineering again to try to get an answer. I should hopefully have an answer for you by sometime next week about the plans here.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

I wanted to come back and just update this thread that this reported behavior is intended. The reports are intended to be the source of truth here, not the data retrieved from the ad groups.

I apologize for the inconvenience and the long delay before this confirmation.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team