Getting Budget amount changes with CustomerSyncService

[Tomas Rimkus]

I understand that I can find out if a different Budget object was assigned to a campaign (budget ID changes) by checking if campaignChangeStatus was set to FIELDS_CHANGED. However I would like to check if budget amount changed even the same budget object is used (ID did not change). How can I do that?

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Since all of the change data is for the campaign level or objects within the campaign, I don't think you'll be able to detect changes to a shared Budget object (independent of a specific Campaign). If you need to detect changes to a shared Budget that is not attached to any campaigns, you'll have to poll the BudgetService periodically and compare the results to the previous state stored in your application.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Tomas Rimkus]

You might be misunderstanding me a bit.

1) I understand that if shared budget assigned to campaign is changed (totally different budget with different budget ID is assigned) campaignChangeStatus should indicate that.

2) Now what happens if the assigned budget is modified but not changed entirely (for example, amount field changes)? Will campaignChangeStatus still change to FIELDS_CHANGED?

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying. I just tried this on my test account by changing the budget amount on a shared budget that was linked to two campaigns. After about 15 minutes, I ran CustomerSyncService for those campaign IDs and a min/max date range of today, and the service returned FIELDS_CHANGED for both campaigns.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Tomas Rimkus]

Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know.