Operation limit for adgroupcriterions on shopping adgroups

[Bas Hilbers]

After reading that the mutatejobservice is not available for shopping (see links below)

https://www.google.nl/?gws_rd=cr&ei=ryyYVPC2Bc7HPeiCgUg#q=CAMPAIGN_TYPE_NOT_COMPATIBLE_WITH_PARTIAL_FAILURE

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/shopping

I instantiated the AdGroupCriterionService and started regular synchronous batching with 400, 250 or even 200 operations, resulting in a AdGroupCriterionError.OPERATIONS_FOR_TOO_MANY_SHOPPING_ADGROUPS

The API documentation on https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/AdGroupCriterionService.AdGroupCriterionError does not specifiy a valid operation limit.. any suggestions?

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

A given AdGroupCriterionService.mutate request can modify at most 2 shopping ad groups. See the Ad groups section of the Limits guide.

Also, when breaking up operations into batches, you'll want to make sure that the set of operations submitted for each mutate call leaves the partition tree in a valid state.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Bas Hilbers]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the quick response. Any way of increasing the performance during product partitioning?

Thanks in advance,

Bas

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Bas,

There is no way to avoid this restriction at the moment.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Michael Buetow]

Hello Danial,

We currently have many clients with a large numbers of Product Groups and we were evaluating methods to increase our systems performance while modifying them. One of the most common structures among our clients is for every 1 Ad Group they have only 3 Product Groups within that Ad Group and this is repeated for thousands of Ad Groups. This limit of only being able to modify Product Groups within 2 Ad Groups at a time is extremely restraining when faced with clients that choose to structure their accounts in the previously mentioned layout. Is there any plan to increase this limit or remove it altogether? If not i'd like to request that it be evaluated as a feature request.

Thanks,

Michael

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Michael,

If you can share your customer ID, I can file a feature request with a reference to that account as use case. That said, are you using multiple threads? How many calls are you making in parallel?

Cheers,

Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

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[jor...@jcrocker.uk]

Hi Anash,

I am currently facing the same problem - creating the initial Product Groups on a couple of thousand Ad Groups at a time. Running in parallel, mutating two ad groups at a time results in RateExceeded errors. To comply with the given restrictions would result in an incredibly slow system, which would not be suited to our clients needs.

Do you have any advice on how to side step this issue?

Kind regards,