Can AdId be reused to copy over ads across adgroup?

Stella

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Feb 21, 2019, 3:08:54 AM2/21/19

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hi,

I am trying to migrate TextAd from one adgroup to another adgroup in the same campaign. Trying to figure out if there is any easy way to do that, other than copy over all values in TextAd.

I saw some related discussion on "Ids and mutating ads”, it seems when cloning camapign, a AdId can be reused. So wonder if anyway to reuse ad (by calling AdId) ?

Given (AdGroupId, AdId) pair is globally unique, can I ‘ADD' an ad by AdId to an existing AdGroupId?

Thanks!

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Feb 21, 2019, 2:55:40 PM2/21/19

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Hello,

Unfortunately, it is not possible via API. But I will share your interest with the team to see if that may be possible to implement in the future releases. Meanwhile you could keep an eye on our blog for information related to the future releases.

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Sai Teja, AdWords API Team

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Yang Yang

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Feb 22, 2019, 1:11:39 PM2/22/19

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hi Sai,

This is the email reply to all, I have another replied to you separately yesterday with company related information.

Ok, now I am constructing a list of operand dictionary, and have a question of uploading it.

Demo in git for basica operation works for me.

operations_ddgroupad_single = [{

  'operator': 'ADD',
  'operand': {
      'xsi_type': 'AdGroupAd',
      'adGroupId': dest_adgroup_id,
      'ad': {'xsi_type': 'ExpandedTextAd',
           'headlinePart1': 'Cruise #%s to Mars'% str(uuid.uuid4())[:8],
           'headlinePart2': 'Best Space Cruise Line',
           'headlinePart3': 'For Your Loved Ones',
           'description': 'Buy your tickets now!',
           'description2': 'Discount ends soon',
           'finalUrls': ['http://www.example.com'],
          },
      'status': 'PAUSED'
  }
}]
# BELOW WORKED
ad_single = ad_group_ad_service.mutate(operations_ddgroupad_single)['value']

But when gernalizing it to makemore fields according to adgroupad operand ==>ExpandedTextAd it fails, pls see my attached soap file.

Can you let me know the correct syntax of adding values to all these keys below? I have reply you with the dest_adgroup_id and soap file for bug separatly.


operations_ddgroupad_single = [{
      'operator': 'ADD',
      'operand': {
          'xsi_type': 'AdGroupAd',
          'adGroupId': dest_adgroup_id,
          'ad': {
              'xsi_type': 'ExpandedTextAd',
              'url': None,
              'displayUrl': None,
              'finalUrls': ['http://www.example.com'],
              'finalMobileUrls': [],
              'finalAppUrls': [],
              'trackingUrlTemplate': None,
              'finalUrlSuffix': None,
              'urlCustomParameters': None,
              'urlData': [],
              'automated': False,
              'type': 'EXPANDED_TEXT_AD',
              'devicePreference': None,
              'systemManagedEntitySource': None,
              # 'Ad.Type': 'ExpandedTextAd',
              'headlinePart1': ‘cruise',
              'headlinePart2': ‘mars',
              'headlinePart2': None,
              'description': ‘check this trip ',
              'path1': None,
              'path2': None

          },
          'status': 'PAUSED'
      }
  }]

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Feb 22, 2019, 3:08:30 PM2/22/19

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Hello Yang,

Looks like on your second screenshot you are passing headlinePart2 a second time with no value which caused the operations to fail. Please note that while adding the ExpandedTextAds headlinePart1, headlinePart2, Description and FinalUrls are mandatory fields. You could refer our client library example to add ExpandedTextAds. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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Sai Teja, AdWords API Team

Yang Yang

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Feb 22, 2019, 7:20:02 PM2/22/19

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hi Sai, yes, I was trying to follow the example file on git.

But still get this error, headlinePart2 is a typo. But looks there is more things here, the KeyError starts from ‘headlinePart1’. I will reply you separately with actual code and soap file. Thank you.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/stellayang/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2881, in run_code

exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)

File "<ipython-input-76-046e583b84fd>", line 2, in <module>

ads_uploaded = ad_group_ad_service.mutate(add_adgroup_operations)['value']

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1374, in MakeSoapRequest

packed_args = self._PackArguments(method_name, args)

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1232, in _PackArguments

for ((_, param), param_data) in zip(op_params, args)]

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1232, in <listcomp>

for ((_, param), param_data) in zip(op_params, args)]

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1287, in _PackArgumentsHelper

for item in data]

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1287, in <listcomp>

for item in data]

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1277, in _PackArgumentsHelper

elem_type, type_override is not None, data_formatted, set_type_attrs)

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleads/common.py", line 1344, in _CreateComplexTypeFromData