ad_group_criterion_operation - field_mask_error: FIELD_MASK_MISSING

[Nathan Caspar]

Hi,

I'm trying to generate a field mask for pausing keywords in a particular ad group, but keep getting a field mask missing error, which I can't find much if any useful documentation about.

I'm using the GoogleAdsService to handle mutate operations and am generating the update mask in this manner

{
    'ad_group_criterion_operation': {
          'update': {
               'resource_name': f'customers/{customer_id}/adGroupCriteria/{ad_group_id}~{keyword_id}',
                'status': google_ads_client.get_type('AdGroupCriterionStatusEnum').PAUSED
          }
     }
}

but am getting the following response

Fault: errors {

    error_code {

      field_mask_error: FIELD_MASK_MISSING

    }

    message: "Cannot use empty field mask in update operation."

    location {

      field_path_elements {

        field_name: "mutate_operations"

        index {

        }

      }

      field_path_elements {

        field_name: "ad_group_criterion_operation"

      }

    }

}

A similar method works fine for creating keywords, any thoughts about what is going wrong?

Nate

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for reaching out. With regards to your concern, you can follow the update keywords example and update status using AdGroupcriterion service set status as PAUSED. From the logs, you can see that you need to use update_mask field to perform update operation. Please refer to this guide for more information on field mask and code sample to update keyword. Let us know if you need additional information.

Regards,
Nirmita Patel Google Ads API Team

 

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