Creating campaigns, ad groups, keywords with one API call - possible?

[Bryan]

Hi, I have been reading through the API documents and it looks like the examples always have hardcoded IDs - for example, the script to create Ad Groups has a hardcoded ID for the campaign to use. Is it possible to create related campaigns, ad groups and keywords all in one API call? For example, if I want to add a new Campaign called "Campaign A", and create an Ad Group inside of it called "Ad Group One", and add a Keyword to that Ad Group, can I do that all at once, or do I have to make 3 separate API calls to create the campaign, retrieve the ID, then assign the Campaign ID to all my Ad Groups, then do the same for the Keyword?

Thanks

[Bryan]

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to update or delete posts that are in the queue to be published...

The answer to this is probably to use BatchJobService and temporary IDs: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/batch-jobs#using_temporary_ids

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Bryan,

That is correct, using the BatchJobService and temporary IDs is what you could do to create a complete hierarchy simultaneously. However, please note that the order of creating objects should still be considered to avoid errors in your batch jobs. I hope this helps and feel free to write back if you have any further questions.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team