How to properly update the assets in an ad group

[Evgeniy Lepikov]

Hi there!
Initially, my goal was to run a query to add new assets to an existing group. The Ad Type of exist Ad is AppAd . 

In the process of adding new asserts I got an error 

"Field 'ad_group' cannot be modified by 'UPDATE' operation."

After searching for a description of the error I found this report

The AppAd type is not mutable and this is the root cause of the error you received. Please refer to this guide on what ad types are mutable. As you said you encountered an issue when removing the ad and creating a new one. 

Ok, I tried deleting Ad and got 

message: "Cannot remove an adgroup ad with this ad type."

Now I don't quite understand how I can add new assets ? What do I have to do to be able to do that? Maybe I should try to delete the whole group? Will this be the right solution?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Evgeniy,

I reproduced this behavior that and app ad cannot be removed with a remove operation from adGroupAd. You may remove the AdGroup. If you want to replicate the ad before removing it you can do a get of the AdGroupAdService and create the new adGroup with adGroupAd with the contents of that 'get' response. Feel free to get back to us.

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Regards,
 

Aryeh Baker Google Ads API Team

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[Evgeniy Lepikov]

Hi Aryeh,
Thank you for help!

Perhaps there is an example of a query using GetAdGroupAd via API ? What parameters are returned?  Optimally if for python

пятница, 12 ноября 2021 г. в 20:07:32 UTC, adsapi:

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Evgeniy,

I found out if you want to change the assets associated with the Campaign you can call AdService to change the assets on the Creative that is enabled instead of AdGroupAdService.

Regarding samples for a 'get' call in Python library you can reach out to their issue tracker.

With that being said, you can modify get_responsive_search_ads.py, most of the fields can be accessed in the underlying ad_group_ad report.