can a negative placment be un-excluding without remembering first its criterion-ID ?

[Berry Tsakala]

Hi again

I'd like to UN-excluding some placements, via API.

They were excluded either manually or via API's "negative campaign criterion" (see code below).

As far as i know now (which is why I ask), unxcluding a placement would be by removing the criterion in which it's 'negatively' defined.

But I don't always have the Criterion Id to use for deleting that criterion.

1. Can I un-exclude placement only by "PlacementUrl" ?

2. Otherwise, how can I get the negative criterion by it's Placement URL ?

I tried "select Id, CriteriaDestinationUrl, FinalMobileUrl, FinalUrls from CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT during 20140820,20140905", which gave errors

I tried "select Id, CriteriaDestinationUrl from CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT during 20140820,20140905", but that returned only Criterion Ids, not the placement URLS ...

here's How I exclude placemnets via API:

operations = [ {
                'operator': 'ADD',
                'operand': {
                    'xsi_type': 'NegativeCampaignCriterion',
                    'campaignId': campaign_id,
                    'criterion': {
                        'xsi_type': 'MobileApplication',   # MOBILE_APPLICATION ?
                        'appId': placement_url,
                    },
                }
            }, ]

Enter code here...

(and thank you for helping me with the previous questions)

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Berry,

Why not retrieve all campaign negative criterion where CriteriaType = PLACEMENT and PlacementUrl contains xxx using the CampaignCriterionService? That should give you the ids, and you can delete the criterion to unexclude the placements. See https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201406/CampaignCriterionService.Placement for details.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,

AdWords API Advisor.

[Berry Tsakala]

to answer your rhetorical question:  because it's complicated :)

But i worked it out using your guidelines

Step 1:  get the criterion IDs

using CampaignCriterionService,

 'fields': ['CampaignId', 'Id', 'CriteriaType', 'PlacementUrl',  ],
 'predicates': [ {
 'field': 'CriteriaType',
 'operator': 'IN',
 'values': ['MOBILE_APPLICATION', ]
 },

Step 2.

remove the criterion:

  operations = [ {
    'operator': 'REMOVE',
    'operand': {
    'xsi_type': 'CampaignCriterion',
    'criterion': { 'id': criterion_id }
 }
}]

Question answered. Thanks.