Create ad group criterion location: UNKNOWN error / The error code is not in this version / Trigger OWNED_AND_OPERATED

[Nga Ngo]

Hi,

I tried calling https://googleads.googleapis.com/v16/customers/../googleAds:mutate via Postman, but failed due to UNKNOWN error.

This is the body part that threw error:

{

        "adGroupCriterionOperation": {

          "create": {

            "adGroup":"customers/../adGroups/-3",

            "location":{

                "geoTargetConstant": "geoTargetConstants/21000"

            }

          }

        }

    }

And below is the response. Please advise. Thanks

{

    "error": {

        "code": 400,

        "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",

        "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",

        "details": [

            {

                "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v16.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",

                "errors": [

                    {

                        "errorCode": {

                            "requestError": "UNKNOWN"

                        },

                        "message": "The error code is not in this version.",

                        "trigger": {

                            "stringValue": "OWNED_AND_OPERATED"

                        },

                        "location": {

                            "fieldPathElements": [

                                {

                                    "fieldName": "mutate_operations",

                                    "index": 3

                                },

                                {

                                    "fieldName": "ad_group_criterion_operation"

                                },

                                {

                                    "fieldName": "create"

                                },

                                {

                                    "fieldName": "location"

                                }

                            ]

                        }

                    }

                ],

                "requestId": "UGLg9TQgb5fqAY4RcJP9Jg"

            }

        ]

    }

}

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

I understand you're encountering an 'UNKNOWN' error. Please note that the provided details lack proper API logs to investigate the issue. To assist you further, we would need complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header) generated at your end.

If you are using a client library and haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the specific client library that you are using. You can refer to the guides Java, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.
 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02tItqe:ref" (ADR-00233956)

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

[Nga Ngo]

Hi,

I sent you the request/response detail personally. Please check.

Thanks,

Nga

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Nga,

Upon checking the provided logs, it is observed that optimizedTargetingEnabled is still set to true. As mentioned earlier, I suggest you set the optimizedTargetingEnabled to false, make sure you are sending the correct adgroup ID in the adGroupCriterionOperation, and retry the request again at your end.

I hope this helps. kindly get back to us in case of any further queries.