URL upgrade for creatives failing on account of ineligibility

[Archit Shivaprakash]

Hey Guys,

Our company wrote a utility to upgrade the URLs on the creatives/keywords we own. A small subset of creatives are failing to upgrade on account of the following error:

[AdError.INELIGIBLE_FOR_UPGRADE @ operations[0].adId; trigger:'Ad has only disabled AdGroupAds', AdError.INELIGIBLE_FOR_UPGRADE @ operations[1].....<snip>

The error does not make sense. The Ad group is not paused, and the ads under it are enabled. We only see this for a subset of our creative portfolio.

Has anyone else encountered this in the past. Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hey Archit,

The upgrade URL function was used during our transition from destination URLs to final URLs in AdWords API v201506. 

If you are trying to update an ad's URL, you will need to first delete the ad then re-add it. The reason for this is that the SET operation for AdGroupAdService only works when you are updating your ads' status.

Cheers,

Anthony

AdWords API Team