How to change Ad Group Audience List targeting from Observation to Targeting?

[Josh Barr]

I have a little app to remove current audience lists from Ad Groups and add the one I want, but I can't figure out how to update the Targeting Setting from Observation to Targeting. Anyone know how to do that?

This is what I have to add a new Audience List to an Ad Group: 

               

 // create user list criterion. Set eligible makes it target
 CriterionUserList userListCriterion = new CriterionUserList();
 Long userListId = 1111L;
 userListCriterion.setUserListId(userListId);
 userListCriterion.setUserListEligibleForSearch(true);


 // Create ad group criterion
 BiddableAdGroupCriterion adgroupCriterion = new BiddableAdGroupCriterion();
 adgroupCriterion.setAdGroupId(1111L);
 adgroupCriterion.setCriterion(userListCriterion);


 // Create operation
 AdGroupCriterionOperation operation = new AdGroupCriterionOperation();
 operation.setOperand(adgroupCriterion);
 operation.setOperator(Operator.ADD);


 AdGroupCriterionOperation[] operations = new AdGroupCriterionOperation[] {operation};


 // Apply the criterion
 AdGroupCriterionReturnValue result = adgroupCriterionService.mutate(operations);

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Josh, 

You may use the AdGroupService.mutate() operation with the TargetingSettingDetail and targetAll set to true/false to switch between Observation and Targeting. You may refer to the code snippets available here as a reference. Could you please give this a try?

Thanks,

Bharani, Google Ads API Team

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[Josh Barr]

Hi Bharani, thank you for responding! Setting userListsSetting.setTargetAll(false); changed it for me: 

public void updateTargeting(AdWordsServicesInterface adWordsServices, AdWordsSession session, AdGroup adGroup) {
 
 AdGroupServiceInterface adGroupService = adWordsServices.get(session, AdGroupServiceInterface.class);
 List<Setting> settings = Lists.newArrayList();
 List<TargetingSettingDetail> details = Lists.newArrayList();
 TargetingSetting targetingSetting = null;
 if (adGroup.getSettings() != null) {
   // Find the existing TargetingSetting if it exists, and keep
   // track of all other settings.
   for (Setting setting : adGroup.getSettings()) {
     if (setting instanceof TargetingSetting) {
       targetingSetting = (TargetingSetting) setting;
     } else {
       settings.add(setting);
     }
   }


   if (targetingSetting != null) {
     // Copy all the existing TargetingSettingDetails except the one for
     // USER_INTEREST_AND_LIST.
     for (TargetingSettingDetail settingDetail : targetingSetting.getDetails()) {
       if (!CriterionTypeGroup.USER_INTEREST_AND_LIST.equals(
               settingDetail.getCriterionTypeGroup())) {
         details.add(settingDetail);
       }
     }
   }
 }


 if (targetingSetting == null) {
   targetingSetting = new TargetingSetting();
 }


 // Create a new USER_INTEREST_AND_LIST targeting setting detail and add
 // it to the details list.
 TargetingSettingDetail userListsSetting = new TargetingSettingDetail();
 userListsSetting.setCriterionTypeGroup(CriterionTypeGroup.USER_INTEREST_AND_LIST);


 // true = "Bid only"; false = "Target and bid"
 userListsSetting.setTargetAll(false);
 details.add(userListsSetting);


 targetingSetting.setDetails(details.toArray(new TargetingSettingDetail[details.size()]));


 // Add the new TargetingSetting for USER_INTEREST_AND_LIST to the settings list.
 settings.add(targetingSetting);


 adGroup.setSettings(settings.toArray(new Setting[settings.size()]));
 
 // Create operations
 AdGroupOperation operation = new AdGroupOperation();
 operation.setOperand(adGroup);
 operation.setOperator(Operator.SET);
 
 AdGroupOperation[] operations = new AdGroupOperation[] {operation};
 
 // Update settings by sending operations
 try {
 AdGroupReturnValue result = adGroupService.mutate(operations);
 } catch (RemoteException e) {
 logger.error("Error updating ad group settings: " + e);
 }
 
 }