Hide and Unhide Customer in MCC

[Fred Lovine]

Hi,

We are receiving an error when trying to hide / unhide a customer account in our MCC. It's not clear if the problem is with our code, or with the API.

Here is the error:

Google\ApiCore\ApiException : {
    "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",
    "code": 3,
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
    "details": [
        {
            "@type": 0,
            "data": "type.googleapis.com\/google.ads.googleads.v8.errors.GoogleAdsFailure"
        },
        {
            "@type": 0,
            "data": [
                {
                    "errorCode": {
                        "managerLinkError": "INVALID_CHANGE"
                    },
                    "message": "The change for mutate link is invalid.",
                    "location": {
                        "fieldPathElements": [
                            {
                                "fieldName": "operation"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": 0,
            "data": "X8YUUXFTJaeUFnYsAY_6sw"
        }
    ]
}

Here is the php code (using Google Ads php client library):

public function hideUnhideAccount(bool $hide )
{
$origCustomerClientLink = $this->getCustomerClientLink();

$customerClientLink = new CustomerClientLink();
$customerClientLink->setResourceName($origCustomerClientLink->getResourceName());
$customerClientLink->setHidden($hide);

$customerClientLinkOperation = new CustomerClientLinkOperation();
$customerClientLinkOperation->setUpdate($customerClientLink);
$customerClientLinkOperation->setUpdateMask(FieldMasks::allSetFieldsOf($customerClientLink));

$customerClientLinkServiceClient = $this->client->getCustomerClientLinkServiceClient();
$customerClientLinkServiceClient->mutateCustomerClientLink(
$this->managerCustomerId,
$customerClientLinkOperation
);

}

[Fred Lovine]

It appears this operation works for Admin level users, but fails for Standard level. It would be helpful if the error message conveyed this.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for reaching out. I will relay your suggestion for more descriptive error messaging here. The Ads API follows the same user access privileges laid out here.

Regards,
Matt
Google Ads API Team

Matt Google Ads API Team

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