How to create Campaign hierarchy using AdWords MutateJobService?

[Jon Beebe]

What's the least expensive way to create the entire Campaign
hierarchy, from the Campaign down to the ads/keywords, using the
AdWords API?

I have a tool for creating/organizing Campaigns, AdGroups, and Ads/
Keywords. I'm sending this data to Google via the AdWords API.

Is there a way to do all of this in one single MutateJobService?

From all my research it seems the only way to do this is by

1. Creating the Campaigns job.
2. waiting for it to finish, extracting all campaign ids and matching
them to the AdGroups.
3. Creating an AdGroups job.
4. waiting for it to finish, extracting all AdGroup ids and matching
them to the ads/keywords.
5. Creating an Ads/Keywords job.

Is there a simple way that I'm somehow missing?

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Jon,

You are correct, there is no way to know the ids for higher level objects until they are created so at least 3 tasks are required now in your case. We will consider improving this in future releases.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[lda...@raccoon.ag]

I see the last post was written on 2011. Have answer for this issue changed, nowadays?

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

No, there is still no way to use the MutateJobService to create an entire hierarchy in a single request.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team