Discrepancy between API and UI for bidding_strategy

[Vidak Kazic]

When I query Google Ads API (v7) for bidding_strategy, either for multiple campaigns or specific campaign, I get empty (unspecified) data in response, while I see the data in the UI normally. I have built the query using the query builder and am pretty sure it's correct, as it's very simple.

Sample query (customer_id and campaign_id redacted):

"SELECT bidding_strategy.type, bidding_strategy.name, bidding_strategy.status, bidding_strategy.resource_name, bidding_strategy.target_roas.target_roas FROM campaign WHERE campaign.resource_name = 'customers/<CUSTOMER_ID>/campaigns/<CAMPAIGN_ID>'"

Response:

In [41]: c.bidding_strategy.type_

Out[41]: <BiddingStrategyType.UNSPECIFIED: 0>

In [42]: c.bidding_strategy.name

Out[42]: ''

In [43]: c.bidding_strategy.target_roas.target_roas

Out[43]: 0.0

UI data for the same campaign:

Thanks in advance,

Vidak

[Vidak Kazic]

Additional info - I just successfully updated a shopping campaign through the Google Ads API to switch to tROAS with specified value, and I saw the campaign Target ROAS change in the Google Ads UI. However, when I queried the Google Ads API for the same campaign, I again get "Unspecified" bidding type and 0.0 tROAS value. 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out. Can you please reply to us privately with your complete request and response logs? As the message will be private, you won't need to redact any of the IDs, which our team can use to troubleshoot. 

Regards,
Matt
Google Ads API Team

Matt Google Ads API Team

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[Vidak Kazic]

Hello Matt, 

I just found a solution - instead of using `bidding_strategy.type`, `bidding_strategy.name` in the query, I just used `campaign.bidding_strategy_type`, `campaign.bidding_strategy`, and got the correct output, so I have what I need.

However, if you'd like to proceed with further investigations, for the sake of debugging the API, if this behaviour is undesired for the campaign resource, I'd be happy to send the request/response logs and investigate further with you!

Cheers,
Vidak

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hello,

Glad to see that substituting those attributes got the desired results. If you aren't having any other issues, there is no need to send the request and response -- sometimes it can be necessary to get a full picture of the request.