keyword report returning multiple rows for a unique adgroupID/CriterionID

[crosby]

Hi,
I'm getting multiple rows for the same adgroupID/CriterionID in a
daily criterion performance report requested via the API. I'm pretty
sure this wasn't happening before, but is definitely happening now.

It appears to happen when the adgroup CPA changes for an adgroup whose
campaign has conversion optimizer enabled. I say this b/c in the two
rows, the agMaxCpa is different, as are the metrics. One row usually
has zero impressions, clicks, and cost, and either (or both) row/s has/
have transactions, conversions, and convValue values > 0.

2 Questions:
1) pretty sure this is new. Is it?
2) If it is new - is it a bug? or a feature we can count on?

Thanks,
`Crosby

PS: grumble grumble, I had been uploading these reports to a table
with a PK on the date, adgroupID, CriterionID. Guess that is out!

[crosby]

using v13 on .net.

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hi Crosby,

In general, reports will be returned with multiple rows for an object
when one of the column values has changed over the time period of the
report, and the value is an input (such as maxCpc, maxCpa, etc). This
is not new, but you may not have seen it before (if you hadn't changed
CPA targets often).

Best,
- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team

On Oct 30, 9:27 pm, crosby <cro...@justanswer.com> wrote:
> using v13 on .net.