What is a Parent criteria?

[mm]

Hey guys -

I am moving to the 201601 api. Going through the migration guide, there is this mentioned:

Impressions associated with the Parent criteria are now returned in reports. This may cause report results from this version to differ from previous API versions. The Parent criteria type was not supported in previous versions, so these rows were excluded from criteria-level reports

I am familiar with the notion of a parent wrt a product partition, but the notion of just a Parent criteria. What this new criteria is, where I might see it, and how I might use it is unclear to me. Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks a bunch!

mm

[Umesh Dengale]

Hi Margaret,

The previous API version(e.g. v201509 or older), criteria type Parent was not available in the reports so rows related to Parent criteria were excluded from criteria-level reports(e.g. Criteria performance report). In v201601, the PARENT criteria type (please see the Predicates values) is newly added in the Criteria Performance report. In the API v201601, the user could get the PARENT criteria related records and could filter data using the predicate (using predicate value as PARENT). The ParentCriterionId of the Product partition report gives the criterion ID of the product partition's parent and is not related to the Parent Criterion type. Please check v201601 migration guide and Criteria Performance report for more details.

Thanks,

Umesh Dengale, AdWords API Team.