Adding Portfolio Bidding Strategy of type MAXIMIZE_CONVERSIONS Through New API

[Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)]

Hi All,

Is it possible to add a Portfolio Bidding Strategy of type MAXIMIZE_CONVERSIONS through the new API?

Using this as a guide: https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-java/blob/master/google-ads-examples/src/main/java/com/google/ads/googleads/examples/advancedoperations/UsePortfolioBiddingStrategy.java

I get this request + response:

Request

-------

MethodName: google.ads.googleads.v2.services.BiddingStrategyService/MutateBiddingStrategies

Endpoint: googleads.googleapis.com:443

Headers: {developer-token=REDACTED, login-customer-id= REDACTED, x-goog-api-client=gl-java/1.8.0_161 gapic/ gax/1.45.0 grpc/1.21.0}

Body: customer_id: "REDACTED"

operations {

  create {

    name {

      value: "Ex Shared Campaign ONE-MAXIMIZE_CONVERSIONS"

    }

    type: MAXIMIZE_CONVERSIONS

    status: ENABLED

  }

}

partial_failure: true

Response

--------

Headers: Metadata(content-disposition=attachment,content-type=application/grpc,request-id=u3UzSIk_W6S3QIn4ybtnLg,date=Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:52:17 GMT,alt-svc=quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43",h3-Q050=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q049=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q048=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=":443"; ma=2592000)

Body: results {

}

partial_failure_error {

  code: 3

  message: "The required field was not present., at operations[0].create.scheme"

  details {

    type_url: "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v2.errors.GoogleAdsFailure"

    value: "\nT\n\003\350\003\002\022#The required field was not present.\032\002*\000\"$\022\016\n\noperations\022\000\022\b\n\006create\022\b\n\006scheme"

  }

}

From what I can tell, MAXIMIZE_CONVERSIONS is an automated strategy and there's no real fields to set other than the type. Trying to do this through the new API is however proving difficult.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Pete

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for reaching out to us. I see that you’re trying to set Maximize_Conversions using Portfolio Bidding Strategy. According to this documentation, Maximize_Conversions is a Standard Bidding Strategy Type, and not a Portfolio Bidding Strategy Type. Thus, it is not possible to add a Portfolio Bidding Strategy of type Maximize_Conversions. Let me know if you have further questions.

Thank you,
Bryan, Google Ads API Team

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