Reporting: ExternalCustomerId not available in CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

[Sander Agricola @ Traffic4u]

I am preparing our software for the cross client reports (which I hope will be available very soon), and currently i'm testing the software with cross client set to false but the rest of the software is already ready for data of multiple accounts in 1 report.

For synchronisation purposes I want to retrieve all objecst by report, in adgroup, keyword, ad, placement, etc. I can use the ExternalCustomerId column to retrieve the account ID for the current record. But when I use this column in the campaign negative keywords report I get an exception that this column isn't available (ReportDefinitionError.INVALID_FIELD_NAME_FOR_REPORT @ ; trigger:'ExternalCustomerId')

 

Why isn't this field available? According to the documentation this field should be available in every report. For now the problem isn't that big, but when crossclient becomes available I really need this column!

[Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)]

I don't see ExternalCustomerId available for that report in the
documentation: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/reports.html#campaign-negative-keywords

Since you have the campaignId, isn't it a simple lookup to determine
Account, even when you switch over to multi client reports?

Pete

On Apr 12, 9:58 am, "Sander Agricola @ Traffic4u"

[Sander Agricola @ Traffic4u]

you are right, it isn't in the documentation. But why isn't it there??
according to the crossclient documentation this field should be
available for all reports which can be run crossclient.

A simple lookup is possible ofcourse, but this makes my (universal)
code a lot less efficient because now I have to make an exception for
the campaign negative reports. It just would make a lot more sense
when the ExternalCustomerId column was available in every report.

[Eric Koleda]

Hi Sander,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, it was an oversight on our part and I'm working with the core engineering team to add those fields in.

Best,

- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team