How to change a ProductOfferId ProductPartition BIDDABLE to NEGATIVE and vice-versa?

[Jean-Guy Speton]

We're using the PHP SDK 25.4.0, lib v201609.

We have an odd use case for one of our clients. We want to structure product campaigns based on product margins which is a function of the price of the product.  However as prices change we wish to "move" products out of the current campaign into a different one by changing the criterion use of an existing biddable to negative in the campaign it is leaving (and would create a new biddable in the campaign in which it is being placed).  If the price were to revert to earlier levels we'd want to flip the use on both product partitions so that the original criterion is again a biddable (after being a negative for some amount of time) and the second criterion gets flipped to negative.

I've tried simply SETting the new criterion use but that results in an error (AdGroupCriterionError.CANT_UPDATE_NEGATIVE).  Note that this is a rather easy thing to accomplish in the UI but I can't see how it's accomplished via the API.  Any pointers?

Thanks!

Jean-Guy

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Jean-Guy,

In the AdWords API, updating the NegativeCriterion is currently not supported. You need to delete the negative criteria and add new negative criteria with updated information.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team

[Nigel Copley]

Hi

You simply change "biddable" to "excluded" not "negative" 

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[Jean-Guy Speton]

There is no CriterionUse enum of "excluded", just biddable and negative.  Can you be more explicit about how this is accomplished via the API?

Thanks for the reply.

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Jean-Guy,

The CriterionUse field is currently read only and does not support any SET operations. This said, once a criterion has been created as a BiddableAdGroupCriterion there will be no direct way to convert it into a NegativeAdGroupCriterion. You will first need to REMOVE the BiddableAdGroupCriterion and then recreate it as a NegativeAdGroupCriterion.

[Jean-Guy Speton]

Thank you for the concise reply.

[Camilo Sarmiento]

Hi, 

Is there a way or an example of how to do this at the SUBDIVISION level, for all existing nodes?

I'd also appreciate if you can point me to a code example of a single edit, as in the UI you can perform all the exclusion/inlcusion operations and the IDs don't even change.

Thanks and regards!

Camilo.

[Camilo Sarmiento]

Hi, 

Is there a way or an example of how to do this at the SUBDIVISION level, for all existing nodes?

I'd also appreciate if you can point me to a code example of a single edit, as in the UI you can perform all the exclusion/inlcusion operations and the IDs don't even change.

Also if you can point me in the right direction to make the change for subtrees it will be great.

Thanks in advance.

Camilo.

On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 10:00:24 PM UTC-5, Peter Oliquino (AdWords API Team) wrote: