Placement Performance Report isRestrict

[Kristopher Windsor]

Hi,

I cannot figure out from the documentation what the intended use of isRestrict is for this report, PLACEMENT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT.

The docs say:


Use the isRestrict column to distinguish between placements you target vs. placements only used for bidding.

And:

Defines if criterion is used for targeting (true) or bidding only (false).

Does this refer to positive vs negative criteria, or to automatic vs managed placements, or maybe to positive criterion with a specified bid vs positive criterion without a specified bid?

Thanks,

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

This refers to the difference between "target and bid" and "bid only". Here's a support article describing these from the perspective of the web interface.

You can set this via the API using the targetAll parameter of the TargetingSettingDetail.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Kristopher Windsor]

Thanks! That makes sense. And I see that this setting is applied per adgroup per criterion type, rather than per criterion.