googleAds:mutate campaignCriterionOperation throwing INCONSISTENT_FIELD_VALUES error

[Dan Charbonneau]

New to these APIs and I've spent a day searching the conversations and can't understand what the fields are mis-matched in my googleAds:mutate campaignCriterionOperation.

I get this error if I join the campaignCriterion with "language" or "location", but works with things like "keyword".

Here is an example of language criterion, scoped it down to just campaign.

Endpoint:

https://googleads.googleapis.com/v17/customers/{{googAccountId}}/googleAds:mutate

Request Body:

{

"mutateOperations": [

{

"campaignBudgetOperation": {

"create": {

"resourceName": "customers/{{googAccountId}}/campaignBudgets/-1",

"deliveryMethod": "STANDARD",

"period": "DAILY",

"type": "STANDARD",

"name": "API RDA Keyword to website #6 Campaign Budget",

"amountMicros": 5000000,

"explicitlyShared": false

}

}

},

{

"campaignOperation": {

"create": {

"resourceName": "customers/{{googAccountId}}/campaigns/-2",

"status": "ENABLED",

"advertisingChannelType": "SEARCH",

"name": "API RDA Keyword to website #6 Campaign",

"campaignBudget": "customers/{{googAccountId}}/campaignBudgets/-1",

"networkSettings": {

"targetGoogleSearch": true,

"targetSearchNetwork": true,

"targetContentNetwork": false,

"targetPartnerSearchNetwork": false,

"targetYoutube": false,

"targetGoogleTvNetwork": false

},

"frequencyCaps": [

{

"key": {

"level": "AD_GROUP",

"eventType": "IMPRESSION",

"timeUnit": "DAY",

"timeLength": 1

},

"cap": 2

}

],

"paymentMode": "CLICKS",

"assetAutomationSettings": [

{

"assetAutomationType": "TEXT_ASSET_AUTOMATION",

"assetAutomationStatus": "OPTED_OUT"

}

],

"manualCpc": {

"enhancedCpcEnabled": true

}

}

}

},

{

"campaignCriterionOperation": {

"create": {

"resourceName": "customers/{{googAccountId}}/campaignCriteria/-2~-7",

"status": "ENABLED",

"campaign": "customers/{{googAccountId}}/campaigns/-2",

// "bidModifier": number,

"negative": false,

"language": {

"languageConstant": "languageConstants/1000"

}

// "location": {

// "geoTargetConstant": "geoTargetConstants/2840"

// }

// "keyword": {

// "matchType": "EXACT",

// "text": "Desk"

// }

}

}

}

]

}

Request Response:

{

"error": {

"code": 400,

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

"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",

"details": [

{

"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v17.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",

"errors": [

{

"errorCode": {

"mutateError": "INCONSISTENT_FIELD_VALUES"

},

"message": "The field's contents don't match another field that represents the same data.",

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "mutate_operations",

"index": 2

},

{

"fieldName": "campaign_criterion_operation"

},

{

"fieldName": "create"

},

{

"fieldName": "resource_name"

}

]

}

}

],

"requestId": "_bYxfOF37nzaZDeQcsNd-Q"

}

]

}

}

Thanks in advance for any insight or help

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

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

Upon checking the provided logs, I understand that you encountered the INCONSISTENT_FIELD_VALUES error while creating the campaign criterion. which means the field's contents don't match another field that represents the same data.

Kindly note that while creating a campaign criterion, no resource name is expected for the new criterion. I would recommend you to check this document on CampaignCriterionOperation for more information.

I hope this helps. You can get back to us if you still have any issues/concerns related to the Google Ads API.
 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02tJIuj:ref" (ADR-00239942)

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

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