check enabled features of an adwords account

[est...@datagran.io]

Hello

I would like to know if the api has any service where I can check if the account has certain features enabled or not, for example I would like to know if an account has the functionality of responsive ads as not all have it yet.

Additionally, I receive this error when I try to create responsive ads ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED. this happens because the account does not have this feature enabled yet?

[Teja Makani]

Hello Esteban,

Unfortunately, AdWords API does not have any such kind of services to expose the features of the accounts. You could keep an eye on our blog, whenever a feature is made available to everyone and information related to the new features will be announced in the blog posts.

The ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED error occurs when you try an Unauthorized invocation of a service's method (get, mutate, etc.). However, to investigate further on this issue please share the SOAP logs(request and response) of the operation performed. You could use reply privately to the author option while sharing the data.

Regards,
Sai Teja, AdWords API Team.

[Zweitze]

Check out the validateOnly option when making a call. Basically it attempts to execute an operation, and returns any errors that may have occurred while executing. However, if no error occurred, the operation is >not< executed, the account is left untouched.

You can also use validateOnly to check whether a user has sufficient permissions. To do so, try creating a campaign with a unique name - say a timestamp or so. When you get no error, you are free to go - but don't have to clean up. When you get an error, something is not right. Check whether the error is insufficient access or something like that.

Hope this helps.