OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT for demographic targeting

[Lakshya Garg]

Hi ,

I am having test account, and i am trying to create demographic targeting. I tried creating at campaign as well as ad level. but getting the exception: OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT..

Can you please help with this?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Lakshya,

Thank you for posting your concern.

To investigate the issue that you experienced, could you provide the complete request and response logs with request ID generated on your end where we can see the error?

If you haven't enabled the logging of the API transactions for the specific client library that you are using, then please refer to the specific guide below:

• Java - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/java/logging
• .Net - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/dotnet/logging
• PHP - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/php/logging
• Python - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/python/logging
• Ruby - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/ruby/logging
• Perl - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs/perl/logging

You can provide it via Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Regards,

Ernie John Blanca Tacata Google Ads API Team

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[Lakshya Garg]

Hi,

I am trying to add demographic for local campaign.

options[:customer_id] = '1642674633'

options[:ad_group_id] = '133212439888'

Please find the below logs:

request_id:  8orcWK_fFAnfvMeqTNet0g

WARN -- : CID: 1642674633, Host: googleads.googleapis.com:443, Method: /google.ads.googleads.v8.services.AdGroupCriterionService/MutateAdGroupCriteria, IsFault: yes, Request ID: 8orcWK_fFAnfvMeqTNet0g

Error with message: The operation is not allowed for the given context.

        On field: operations

        On field: create

        On field: gender

        Type: context_error

        Code: OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT

Error with message: The operation is not allowed for the given context.

        On field: operations

        On field: create

        On field: age_range

        Type: context_error

        Code: OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT

Traceback (most recent call last):

        13: from add_demographic_criteria.rb:77:in `<main>'

        12: from add_demographic_criteria.rb:29:in `add_demographic_targeting_criteria'

        11: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/service_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing'

        10: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/service_wrapper.rb:50:in `public_send'

         9: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/v8/services/ad_group_criterion_service/client.rb:333:in `mutate_ad_group_criteria'

         8: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/gapic-common-0.6.0/lib/gapic/grpc/service_stub.rb:156:in `call_rpc'

         7: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/gapic-common-0.6.0/lib/gapic/grpc/service_stub/rpc_call.rb:121:in `call'

         6: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/grpc-1.40.0-universal-darwin/src/ruby/lib/grpc/generic/client_stub.rb:173:in `block in request_response'

         5: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/grpc-1.40.0-universal-darwin/src/ruby/lib/grpc/generic/interceptors.rb:175:in `intercept!'

         4: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/interceptors/logging_interceptor.rb:53:in `request_response'

         3: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/grpc-1.40.0-universal-darwin/src/ruby/lib/grpc/generic/interceptors.rb:177:in `block in intercept!'

         2: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/grpc-1.40.0-universal-darwin/src/ruby/lib/grpc/generic/interceptors.rb:175:in `intercept!'

         1: from /Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/interceptors/error_interceptor.rb:63:in `request_response'

/Users/synup/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/google-ads-googleads-14.0.0/lib/google/ads/google_ads/interceptors/error_interceptor.rb:67:in `rescue in request_response': Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Errors::GoogleAdsError (Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Errors::GoogleAdsError)

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Lakshya,

Thank you for the trace that you provided. However, these do not appear to be the complete request and response logs with request ID that my colleague Ernie earlier requested.

That said, and since it appears that you are using Ruby, you can first enable logging by referring to this guide. Once enabled, you may retry your request and provide to our team the generated logs as these would greatly help us in troubleshooting the API error you are encountering.

Furthermore, I would highly recommend that you send the requested information via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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