Campaign negative keywords report SelectorError.FILTER_BY_DATE_RANGE_NOT_SUPPORTED

[Peter Kingswell]

Hi,

when downloading the campaign negative keywords report, it's possible to specify a date range of ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.LAST_14_DAYS (for example) but not ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE.  If you try the latter you get a (very informative) ReportsException with errors of :

      "ErrorType": "SelectorError.FILTER_BY_DATE_RANGE_NOT_SUPPORTED",

      "Trigger": "Filtering by date range not supported.",

I'd just like someone to confirm that this is expected behaviour.  It seems inconsistent to be able to ask for the last 14 days but not a custom date.  All the other reports we download support custom date ranges.  BTW I'm aware that negative keywords do not hold statistics.

Thanks, Peter

[David Torres (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

The date range in the selector controls the window of stats to be returned, since negative keywords do not hold stats (this is just a structural report), the date range field is really meaningless for it.

Best,

- David Torres - AdWords API Team 

[Kurt Wheeler]

Is it documented which Report Types do and do not support filtering by date range? I've been looking and googling for it and haven't seen any mention of it anywhere. Is there any way to tell that a given request will return this error before making the request?

[Kurt Wheeler]

I was able to find this out by testing all 44 report types. The following do not support date ranges:

CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT
CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_LOCATIONS_REPORT
CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_PLACEMENTS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT
CAMPAIGN_SHARED_SET_REPORT
GEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT
LABEL_REPORT
SHARED_SET_CRITERIA_REPORT
SHARED_SET_REPORT

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Kurt,

The Geo Performance Report does support filtering by date range. Could you provide the complete report definition you used for the Geo Performance Report when you encountered this error? 

The other report types are for negative criterion or structure data (Label Report). Filtering by date range doesn't provide any meaningful insight and hence is not supported for these report types. I've contacted the team to have the report documentation updated to reflect this. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi all,

You can only use date ranges with reports that support the Date field. Trying to use date ranges with unsupported reports will result in the SelectorError.FILTER_BY_DATE_RANGE_NOT_SUPPORTED error. The AdWords API reporting guide has been updated to reflect this.