Adding Google Hotels campaign bidding strategy via REST/JSON

[Steve Wilcox]

Greetings forum faithful!

I'm adding campaigns via the API.  I'm able to add display and search campaigns no problem.  When I try to add Hotels campaigns, though, I get 

"message": "The required field was not present.", "trigger": { "stringValue": "" }, "location": { "fieldPathElements": [ { "fieldName": "operations", "index": "0" }, { "fieldName": "create" }, { "fieldName": "campaign_bidding_strategy" } 

I don't have that field.  What is it supposed to look like?

Let's say I'm using a manual_cpc strategy. 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for reaching out.

You can refer to this (https://googleads.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v6) documentation on how to implement your REST requests such as the field naming conventions you will need to use. In the said document the "manualCpc" was used.

Let me know if this helps.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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[Steve Wilcox]

Peter,

Thanks for your reply!

Here's the JSON I'm sending currently:

{
  "operations": [
    {
      "create": {
        "name": "RN_Hotel_20210105214252_test2",
        "status": 3,
        "campaignBudget": "customers/<customerID>/campaignBudgets/<budgetid>",
        "advertisingChannelType": 5,
        "campaign_bidding_strategy": {
          "type": "MANUAL_CPC",
          "enhanced_cpc_enabled": false
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

This is what I get back:

    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest",
        "fieldViolations": [
          {
            "field": "operations[0].create",
            "description": "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "campaign_bidding_strategy" at 'operations[0].create': Cannot find field."

The docs don't give a super specific name for the field.  What should I be using instead?

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Steve Wilcox

Developer | ResNexus

swi...@convoyant.com | ResNexus.com

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Steve,

You can follow the example here where it used the target_spend directly, also in the documentation, you can use "manualCpc", for implementing a standard strategy :

"manualCpc": { "description": "Standard Manual CPC bidding strategy. Manual click-based bidding where user pays per click.", "$ref": "GoogleAdsGoogleadsV6Common__ManualCpc" }