membership_life_span seems to only be set to 540 when interacting via api

[Austin Kregel]

Your client library and Google Ads API versions:

• Google API Client library version: v2.13.2

• Google Ads API version: V13 and V14

Your environment:

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Description of the bug:

Using the example provided here in the Remarketing/AddFlexibleRuleUserList example.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a Rule Based User List
• Use the example provided here
• Run the script
• Inspect the output in the Google Ads Audience Manager
• You should see that the Audience is set to Web page visit in the past 540 days despite sending 365

Attempting to update the membership lifespan via the API will result in no change in Google Ads.

Expected behavior:
The Audience Manager should reflect the 365 day lifespan I'm sending, not 540.

Request/Response Logs:
Here's the debug logs from my attempt to create a user list with the example

[2023-11-08T17:41:41.698198+00:00] google-ads.INFO: Request made: Host: "googleads.googleapis.com", Method: "/google.ads.googleads.v15.services.UserListService/MutateUserLists", CustomerId: 8995252199, RequestId: "TtqHYeQB4hP39_X1qFpKvQ", IsFault: 0, FaultMessage: "None" [2023-11-08T17:41:41.699099+00:00] google-ads.DEBUG: Request ------- Method Name: /google.ads.googleads.v15.services.UserListService/MutateUserLists Host: googleads.googleapis.com Headers: { "x-goog-api-client": "gl-php\/8.2.12 gccl\/21.1.0 gapic\/21.1.0 gax\/1.25.0 grpc\/1.59.1 rest\/1.25.0 pb\/+n", "User-Agent": "gcloud-php-new\/21.1.0", "x-goog-request-params": "customer_id=8995252199", "developer-token": "REDACTED", "login-customer-id": "6281286582" } Request: {"customerId":"8995252199","operations":[{"create":{"name":"All visitors to http:\/\/example.com\/example1 AND http:\/\/example.com\/example2 but NOT http:\/\/example.com\/example3 #2023-11-08T17:41:40.937+00:00","description":"Visitors of both http:\/\/example.com\/example1 AND http:\/\/example.com\/example2 but NOT http:\/\/example.com\/example3","membershipStatus":"OPEN","membershipLifeSpan":"365","ruleBasedUserList":{"prepopulationStatus":"REQUESTED","flexibleRuleUserList":{"inclusiveRuleOperator":"AND","inclusiveOperands":[{"rule":{"ruleItemGroups":[{"ruleItems":[{"name":"url__","stringRuleItem":{"operator":"EQUALS","value":"http:\/\/example.com\/example1"}}]}]},"lookbackWindowDays":"7"},{"rule":{"ruleItemGroups":[{"ruleItems":[{"name":"url__","stringRuleItem":{"operator":"EQUALS","value":"http:\/\/example.com\/example2"}}]}]},"lookbackWindowDays":"7"}],"exclusiveOperands":[{"rule":{"ruleItemGroups":[{"ruleItems":[{"name":"url__","stringRuleItem":{"operator":"EQUALS","value":"http:\/\/example.com\/example3"}}]}]}}]}}}}]} Response ------- Headers: { "content-disposition": "attachment", "request-id": "TtqHYeQB4hP39_X1qFpKvQ", "date": "Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:41:41 GMT", "alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000" } Response: {"results":[{"resourceName":"customers\/8995252199\/userLists\/8483840056"}]}

Anything else we should know about your project / environment:
The only modification I made to the example was to add a needed withLoginCustomerId call to the client used so I could create the list.

This behavior seems most unexpected, according to the API docs when left out, the membership lifespan should default to 30 days; but when I remove the lifespan field it is still getting set to 540 in the Google Ads UI.

[Austin Kregel]

I did post this originally in the SDK repository for the PHP library, but they referred me to the group here.

[Austin Kregel]

This seems to be a bug in the Google Ads API, I'd appreciate some further help with this from the Ads team.