ad_group_ad_asset_combination_view.served_assets "servedAssetFieldType":"UNKNOWN"

[Oksana Sulyma]

Hi Google Ads API team!

I have a question on ad_group_ad_asset_combination_view.served_assets field.

In the recent reports (from May 4) we have noticed a lot of entities with "servedAssetFieldType":"UNKNOWN". 

We understand meaning of "servedAssetFieldType":"HEADLINE_1", "servedAssetFieldType":"HEADLINE_2", "servedAssetFieldType":"DESCRIPTION_1", "servedAssetFieldType":"DESCRIPTION_2", but could you please explain what are the assets with "servedAssetFieldType":"UNKNOWN" ? Any documentation Lins would be helpful!

Thanks in advance,

Oksana

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello Oksana,

Welcome to Google Ads API Support team. Thank you for reaching out to us.

The ServedAssetFieldType UNKNOWN means that the received value is not known in this version. You may check on this documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v12/ServedAssetFieldTypeEnum.ServedAssetFieldType) for this information.

On the other hand, if the above does not suffice, kindly elaborate your question and share to us the complete request and response logs with request id and request header generated on your end. If possible, include an uncropped screenshot of the equivalent data in UI.

Note that these logs can be requested or provided to the developer handling the Google Ads API transactions when logging of the API requests has been enabled. You may check here (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/logging#client_library_logging) and click your client library for the specific guideline to enable it.

For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag. This will cause the tool to include the HTTP response headers in the output.

Links to the highlighted words above:

• request - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#request
• response - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#response
• request id - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request-id
• request header - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request_headers 

You may send the requested details privately via the “Reply To Author” option. If that option is not available to you, send it directly to googleadsa...@google.com instead and let us know here once it is provided.

Regards,

Google Ads API Team

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[Oksana Sulyma]

Thanks guys!

I've sent details in private message.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Oksana, 

Thank you for coming back to us. I hope you are doing well today.

With regards to your concern, UNKNOWN field type is working as expected based on the document ServedAssetFieldType (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v13/ServedAssetFieldTypeEnum.ServedAssetFieldType), it means “The received value is not known in this version. This is a response-only value.”.

However, for us to further investigate your concern, could you provide us with an uncropped screenshot from Google Ads UI of the expected result rather than “Unknown”?

If ever, this will also help us to raise your concern with the rest of the team.

Have a great day.

Regards,

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Oksana, 

You may send the requested details privately via the “Reply To Author” option. If that option is not available to you, send it directly to googleadsa...@google.com instead and let us know here once it is provided.

Regards,

[Oksana Sulyma]

Hi team, thanks for your response.

Our application doesn't ask users for login credentials, so we don't have access to Google Ads UI, unfortunately.

Our concern is that we started to get way longer response in ad_group_ad_asset_combination_view.served_assets field starting from May 4, so I was wondering if some upgrades were rolled out causing a lot of 'UNKNOWN' entities included. 

Is it possible to check data at your end for account I've provided privately? 

Thanks again so much for trying to puzzle this out!

[Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum]

Re-posting the last inquiry (https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/u7nrQffUNLY) from the forum as it wasn't routed to our support queue.

Regards,
Google Ads API Team

[Oksana Sulyma]

Hello! 

Will appreciate any info on me question.

Trying to understand if many "servedAssetFieldType":"UNKNOWN" in ad_group_ad_asset_combination_view.served_assets is expected API behaviour. 

Thanks,

Oksana

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi, 

Thanks for getting back to us.

Data with ServedAssetFieldType (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v13/ServedAssetFieldTypeEnum.ServedAssetFieldType) equal to UNKNOWN means the corresponding received value is not known in the current version of the API. That said, can you provide us with the Google Ads UI screenshot (not cropped) of the value you are trying to retrieve via API that is showing UNKNOWN? This is so we can also check and compare on our end as well and provide you more appropriate answers. You may provide it via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Our concern is that we started to get way longer response in ad_group_ad_asset_combination_view.served_assets field

>> Upon running the same query you provided in your previous message, I can see that the query returned many results which is more than 27,000+ results. You may try adding more filters in your query to lessen the results of your query and see if it will make the response time shorter.

Regards,