Renamed status fields in reporting.

[Filip Holmberg]

Could someone explain the logic behind the renamed status field in reporting. Why is campaign and adgroup status fields only renamed, not ad statuses for example? This is quite confusing so I guess I have missed something. 

Campaign => CampaignStatus

AdGroup => AdGroupStatus

Ad => Status

Even the docs are a bit conflicting? 

Grabbed from the ad performance report Status field.

"The status of the main object in this row. For example, in a Campaign Performance Report this will be the status of each row's Campaign. In an Ad Group Performance Report this will be the status of each row's AdGroup."

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Filip,

The difference here was that for Campaign and Ad Group status fields we had both "Status" and "CampaignStatus" historically available in the same report. Those were effectively the same field in campaign performance report. To de-duplicate them we needed to remove one and decided to remove "Status" and to keep "CampaignStatus" as more specific. Users who used "CampaignStatus" field before didn't need to make any changes. Similarly, with AdGroup.

For Ad, there was no duplication. As such, we decided not to rename it from Status to AdStatus as this will break every user with no real benefit.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Filip Holmberg]

Alright, thanks.