Is it possible to permanently remove those AdGroup, Ads, Keywords from a deleted campaign?

[matthew tang]

As mentioned, we are successfully imported Google Ads Campaigns in Enabled, Paused Status,

yet we are getting all AdGroups, Ads, Keywords even those parent campaigns have been removed.

Would be pleased to get Google's solutions to permanently  remove those AdGroups, Ads, Keywords that belongs to the deleted campaigns.

The documents of 'Remove an ad group', 'Remove a keyword' are not functionable as these required.

Errors popped out with '[OperationAccessDenied.OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_REMOVED_ENTITY @ operations[0]; trigger:'AdGroup']'.

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/samples/php/basic-operations#remove-an-ad-group

Many thanks.

Matthew

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately, you cannot make any changes to entities belonging to a removed campaign, so deleting them would not be possible via API. There is no way to bypass the OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_REMOVED_ENTITY mechanism since this is in place to check the system's integrity. 

I suggest selecting only active campaigns and ad groups when trying to run update requests in order to avoid this error. Let me know if you have additional questions.

Regards,
Danica, Google Ads API Team
 

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[matthew tang]

Hi Danica,

Thanks for the updates. Will try on your suggestion.

Best regards,

Matthew