Can't set CpcBid to 'Excluded'

[Emma Rong]

Hello there,

I'm trying to set CpcBids to 'Excluded' by mutating the  AdGroupCriterionService. According to this document I'm supposed to set the Bid field to 0. However, I'm getting error below:

googleads.errors.GoogleAdsServerFault: [BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}']

Here are the SOAP request and response.

Outgoing request: {'SOAPAction': '""', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8', 'authorization': 'REDACTED'}

<soap-env:Envelope xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap-env:Header>

    <ns0:RequestHeader xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806">

      <ns0:clientCustomerId>xxx-xxx-xxxx</ns0:clientCustomerId>

      <ns0:developerToken>REDACTED</ns0:developerToken>

      <ns0:userAgent>unknown (AwApi-Python, googleads/12.2.0, Python/2.7.15, zeep)</ns0:userAgent>

      <ns0:validateOnly>false</ns0:validateOnly>

      <ns0:partialFailure>false</ns0:partialFailure>

    </ns0:RequestHeader>

  </soap-env:Header>

  <soap-env:Body>

    <ns0:mutate xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806">

      <ns0:operations>

        <ns0:operator>SET</ns0:operator>

        <ns0:operand xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns0:BiddableAdGroupCriterion">

          <ns0:adGroupId>xxxxxxxxxxx</ns0:adGroupId>

          <ns0:criterion xsi:type="ns0:ProductPartition">

            <ns0:id>xxxxxxxxxxxx</ns0:id>

          </ns0:criterion>

          <ns0:biddingStrategyConfiguration>

            <ns0:bids xsi:type="ns0:CpcBid">

              <ns0:bid>

                <ns0:microAmount>0</ns0:microAmount>

              </ns0:bid>

              <ns0:cpcBidSource>CRITERION</ns0:cpcBidSource>

            </ns0:bids>

          </ns0:biddingStrategyConfiguration>

        </ns0:operand>

      </ns0:operations>

    </ns0:mutate>

  </soap-env:Body>

</soap-env:Envelope>

Incoming response: 

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Header>

    <ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806">

      <requestId>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</requestId>

      <serviceName>AdGroupCriterionService</serviceName>

      <methodName>mutate</methodName>

      <operations>1</operations>

      <responseTime>163</responseTime>

    </ResponseHeader>

  </soap:Header>

  <soap:Body>

    <soap:Fault>

      <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>

      <faultstring>[BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}']</faultstring>

      <detail>

        <ApiExceptionFault xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201806">

          <message>[BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}']</message>

          <ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>

          <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="BiddingErrors">

            <fieldPath>operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids</fieldPath>

            <fieldPathElements>

              <field>operations</field>

              <index>0</index>

            </fieldPathElements>

            <fieldPathElements>

              <field>operand</field>

            </fieldPathElements>

            <fieldPathElements>

              <field>biddingStrategyConfiguration</field>

            </fieldPathElements>

            <fieldPathElements>

              <field>bids</field>

            </fieldPathElements>

            <trigger>CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}</trigger>

            <errorString>BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID</errorString>

            <ApiError.Type>BiddingErrors</ApiError.Type>

            <reason>INVALID_BID</reason>

          </errors>

        </ApiExceptionFault>

      </detail>

    </soap:Fault>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

The error is complaining about the bid being 0.000000 where in the request I'm setting it to integer 0. Could anyone help me look into this?

Thanks!

Emma

[Luis Xander Talag (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Emma,

I already reply to you on our existing private thread. If you still have further clarifications, we could continue our discussion on that private thread.

Thanks and regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team