ConversionActions REST API endpoint not accepting valid category value

[Evan Bertz]

Attempting to update and existing conversion_action (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/rest/reference/rest/v17/customers.conversionActions/mutate), I passed the category value "QUALIFIED_LEAD" which is valid based on the enum
https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v17/conversion_action#conversion_action.category

request:

{"operations":[{"update":{"resourceName":"customers/<REDACTED>/conversionActions/<REDACTED>","id":"<REDACTED>","name":"Calls (web page calls)","type":"UPLOAD_CLICKS","primaryForGoal":false,"category":"QUALIFIED_LEAD","clickThroughLookbackWindowDays":"7","valueSettings":{"defaultValue":0,"defaultCurrencyCode":"USD","alwaysUseDefaultValue":false},"countingType":"ONE_PER_CLICK","attributionModelSettings":{"attributionModel":"GOOGLE_SEARCH_ATTRIBUTION_DATA_DRIVEN"}},"updateMask":"name,status,primary_for_goal,category,click_through_lookback_window_days,value_settings.default_value,value_settings.default_currency_code,counting_type,attribution_model_settings.attribution_model,primary_for_goal"}],"partialFailure":true,"validateOnly":false,"responseContentType":"MUTABLE_RESOURCE"}


response:
"partialFailureError": {
    "code": 3,
    "message": "The field's value is invalid., at operations[0].update.category",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v17.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",
        "errors": [
          {
            "errorCode": {
              "fieldError": "INVALID_VALUE"
            },
            "message": "The field's value is invalid.",
            "trigger": {
              "int64Value": "28"
            },
            "location": {
              "fieldPathElements": [
                {
                  "fieldName": "operations",
                  "index": 0
                },
                {
                  "fieldName": "update"
                },
                {
                  "fieldName": "category"
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ],
        "requestId": ""
      }
    ]
  }

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

From the provided information, I see that the request headers and request id are missing. Could you please provide us with the complete API logs (request and response logs with request-id and request header) generated at your end. This would help us investigate this issue further.

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This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vGeau:ref" (ADR-00271821)

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Google Ads API Team