Re: SharedSets API Issue

[David Torres (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Blastian,

SharedSet services and reports are limited to beta developers.

Best,

- David Torres - AdWords API Team

On Friday, April 19, 2013 4:40:59 PM UTC-4, Blastian wrote:

I would like to know if the Sharedsets API is working. I tried different ways by using

ReportDefinitionReportType reportType = (ReportDefinitionReportType)Enum.Parse(typeof(ReportDefinitionReportType), "CAMPAIGN_SHARED_SET_REPORT");




SharedSetService service = (SharedSetService)user.GetService(AdWordsService.v201302.SharedSetService);

            Selector selector = new Selector();
            selector.fields = new String[] { "Name","SharedSetId" };




and also the http adhoc report. None of those work, could someone let me know if this beta feature is working? They all gave me the error "An API exception has occurred. See ApiException and InnerException fields for more details."

[Rasmus Ladekjær Pedersen]

Does it mean that I as a normal developer am unable to use it?

[DavM]

It appears that SharedSets have been removed from the API. Are they ever going to be re-introduced?

It's so disappointing as they are a great way for managing negative keywords.

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello,

No, we don't plan to re-introduce shared sets in the API.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[u_api_user]

Hi,

I'm a litte bit shocked. This was a great feature! We used
it for a big amount of accounts which we have to maintain
now manually again. What was the reason for this
decision? What will/can happen now. The companies who
have integrated that are switching back to importing
negative keywords on each campaign if they
use an automated process. This means
you have more keywords in your account although
this is not necessary if you would use the shared sets functionality.
Certainly it would also uses up more ressources on your
site cause you have to provide more space for duplicate
negative keywords.
Alternatively like us they go back importing those NegKWs
manually. This costs a lot of time for hundreds of accounts
and is a frustrating task.

It would be nice if you would think about that feature again.

Thx for your efforts!

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello,

Shared sets was a beta feature available to a limited number of users only. After reviewing pros and cons we decided to discontinue it.

While shared sets are helpful in some cases they cause quite a lot of confusion in respect to stats. Such keywords can not be attributed to a particular campaign or ad group, so when returned in reports they caused discrepancies between different report types. With API it is easy to create any number of keywords programmatically.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[DavM]

Hi Danial

Does that mean that the Shared Library "Campaign Negative Keywords" will be removed from the UI too? 

The problem we have is if we inherit an account that uses shared libraries and want to audit the negative keywords we can't see the shared libraries as they are not available on the API.

Is there any kind of workaround to this?

Cheers

David

[DavM]

Hi Daniel

I would be great to get a response regarding my question about the future of SharedSets in the UI and if there is any kind of workaround to the lack of API access to them.

Cheers

David

On Monday, 24 March 2014 15:16:08 UTC, Danial Klimkin wrote:

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello David,

We don't have any update at the moment unfortunately. This feature will be considered for the next API release but I can't guarantee it will be restored.

Once again, note this was an experimental Beta feature, which could have been removed at any time as per Beta program.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.