how to change campaign settings in performance max campaign

Jip Veerbeek

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Oct 28, 2022, 7:38:36 AM10/28/22

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Hello,

I have tried to change this information with a CURL request.

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I have tried to use this: local_campaign_setting parameter that contain location_source_type paramer but you can only set up 4 enums:

UNSPECIFIED
No value has been specified.
UNKNOWN
Used for return value only. Represents value unknown in this version.
GOOGLE_MY_BUSINESS
Locations associated with the customer's linked Business Profile.
AFFILIATE
Affiliate (chain) store locations. For example, Best Buy store locations.

I would like to set the Location to US and the language to English.

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Jip Veerbeek

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Oct 28, 2022, 11:58:48 AM10/28/22

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Hello Jip,

Thank you for reaching out to Google Ads support.

To update the language and location campaign settings, you would use the Campaign Criterion resource. For your specific question, the fields to update on that resource are “location” and “language”.

For the location, you would use LocationInfo and the “geo_target_constant” value should be a country code as specified in the country codes tables. For the United States, it would be “US”.
For the language, you would use a LanguageInfo and the “language_constant” value should be a code from languages codes and format table. For English, it would be 1000.

To clarify the “local_campaign_setting” you tried to use refers to Google Ads Local Campaigns which are used to reference physical store information. For Local Campaigns, you select locations by specifying affiliate locations or by linking to your Google My Business account, which correspond with the enum values you shared.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Daniel
Google Ads API Team

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Jip Veerbeek

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Oct 31, 2022, 7:11:14 AM10/31/22

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Hello,

Thanks for the response. This is a CURL request I found on this platform:

If I try to use this with v12 I get this error:

And if I follow the instructions in the error I do this:

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And get this:

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I see that there is a criterion_id requested in the error but I dont have one, do you know if that is necessary?

It would be great if someone can help me with this problem.

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Oct 31, 2022, 4:18:05 PM10/31/22

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Hi Jip,

The criterion_id is need as part of the "resourceName" in some resources and campaignCriteria is one of them.
It is a reference to the criterion value that is set as criteria. For the case of the location field the criteria_id is the value of the "geoTargetConstant".

This is one example query that worked for me using the Geo code you send us.

curl --request POST "https://googleads.googleapis.com/v${API_VERSION}/customers/${CUSTOMER_ID}/campaignCriteria:mutate" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "developer-token: ${DEVELOPER_TOKEN}" \
--header "login-customer-id: ${MANAGER_CUSTOMER_ID}" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
--data "{
'operations': [
{
'create': {
'resourceName': 'customers/${CUSTOMER_ID}/campaignCriteria/${CAMPAIGN_ID}~9050703',
'location': { 'geoTargetConstant': 'geoTargetConstants/9050703' },
},
}
],
}"

Kindly note the difference in the resourceName to use "campaignCriteria" and the criterion_id.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 1, 2022, 4:23:44 AM11/1/22

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Hello,

Thanks for the response.

I want to set the location to the US but I dont know where to find the right id.

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 1, 2022, 10:00:20 AM11/1/22

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Hello Jip,

The code for the US is: 2840

The list of Geo Codes can be found on this documentation page: Geo Target. You can get a list by clicking on the "Latest .csv" button.
That file contains a list of all the Geo Codes. You can filter by "Country" in the "Target Type".

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 1, 2022, 1:29:18 PM11/1/22

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Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to change the language and the location in one request.

I have tried it like this:

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And this:

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And more ways but I can't make it work.

Thanks for all the help.

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 1, 2022, 5:06:26 PM11/1/22

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Hi Jip,

You can have multiple operations in a single request by having multiple valid operation JSON objects in the "operations" field like this:

curl --request POST "https://googleads.googleapis.com/v${API_VERSION}/customers/${CUSTOMER_ID}/campaignCriteria:mutate

" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "developer-token: ${DEVELOPER_TOKEN}" \
--header "login-customer-id: ${MANAGER_CUSTOMER_ID}" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
--data "{
'operations': [
  {
    'create': {
      'resourceName': 'customers/${CUSTOMER_ID}/campaignCriteria/${CAMPAIGN_ID}~2084',
      'location': { 'geoTargetConstant': 'geoTargetConstants/2084' },
    },
  },
  {
    'create': {
      'resourceName': 'customers/${CUSTOMER_ID}/campaignCriteria/${CAMPAIGN_ID}~1000',
      'language': { 'languageConstant': 'languageConstants/1000' },
    },
  }

],
}"

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 2, 2022, 6:29:02 AM11/2/22

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Hello,

I am making an assetGroup but I dont know how to fill in the headlines. I also would like to ad images, logos, description and long headlines. How can I do this?

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Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 2, 2022, 12:48:44 PM11/2/22

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Hi Jip,

To create images, logos headlines and other assets you will create an Asset object.

Kindly note that you will create one Asset objet each asset you want to create (image, text) and you need to use the corresponding type field for each type of asset.
For example, for a text asset you will set the "textAsset" field with an TextAsset object as value.

If you want to link between the different assets you have created and an AssetGroup you have to create an AssetGroupAsset object.

Regards,
Daniel

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 3, 2022, 11:14:40 AM11/3/22

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Hello Daniel,

I haven't managed to do it yet, do you maybe have an example?

Thanks,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 4, 2022, 12:45:39 PM11/4/22

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Hi Jip,

We don't have full HTTP requests examples but we have multiple examples in the different client libraries that we provide . Since you are doing a lot of operations I would suggest using one of the libraries as they make this process a lot easier.

For your particular question regarding creating an AssetGroup you can see an example using Python here.

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 7, 2022, 7:27:25 AM11/7/22

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Hello Daniel,

thanks for the suggestion but I am not going to switch yet.

{

"operations": [

{

"create": {

"resourceName": "customers/5526191782/assetGroups/-1",

"campaign": "customers/5526191782/campaigns/18800555689",

"name": "test1",

"final_urls": ["https://example.com/"],

"final_mobile_urls": ["https://example.com/"],

"status": "PAUSED"

}

]

}

This is my request to create an assetGroup but I keep getting this error:

{

"error": {

"code": 400,

"message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",

"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",

"details": [

{

"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v12.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",

"errors": [

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_HEADLINE_ASSET"

},

"message": "Headline asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: headline"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_LONG_HEADLINE_ASSET"

},

"message": "Long headline asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: long headline"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_DESCRIPTION_ASSET"

},

"message": "Description headline asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: description"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_BUSINESS_NAME_ASSET"

},

"message": "Business name asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: business name"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_MARKETING_IMAGE_ASSET"

},

"message": "Marketing image asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: marketing image"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_SQUARE_MARKETING_IMAGE_ASSET"

},

"message": "Square marketing image asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: square marketing image"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_LOGO_ASSET"

},

"message": "Logo asset for a valid asset group is not enough.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: logo"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

},

{

"errorCode": {

"requestError": "UNKNOWN"

},

"message": "The error code is not in this version.",

"trigger": {

"stringValue": "Asset type: description"

},

"location": {

"fieldPathElements": [

{

"fieldName": "operations",

"index": 0

}

]

}

],

"requestId": "K4RVSdZJrMJpXQyHa_JR2g"

}

]

}

I dont understand why this is going wrong.

It would be great if you could help me with this.

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 7, 2022, 3:11:05 PM11/7/22

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Hi Jip,

The errors you are seeing are because your request doesn’t meet the minimum asset requirements for Performance Max campaigns. You may refer to this guide as the Performance Max campaign requires an initial minimum set of assets.

You need to include the creation of the required Assets by the Performance Max campaign in the same request. The operations are described in the Asset Group Asset Service by sending an Asset Group Asset create Operation. In the “field_type” of the Asset Group Asset you can specify the different types of assets as specified in the Asset Field Type page.

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 14, 2022, 5:35:16 AM11/14/22

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Hi Daniel,

I still don't get it. Can you maybe provide me with more details?

Regards,

Jip Veerbeek

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Nov 15, 2022, 2:02:33 PM11/15/22

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Hi Jip,

Performance Max campaigns require certain minimum Assets to be attached to the campaign. You can see all the requirements on this guide.

Using one of your errors as an example:

"assetGroupError": "NOT_ENOUGH_HEADLINE_ASSET"

This means you are not adding enough Text Assets to the Campaign.
Based on the table from the guide you need a minimum of 3 Text Asset.

On your query you are only sending one create operation for the Campaign but not telling it what assets to use.

{
    "operations": [
        {
            "create": {
                 ....
            }
        }
    ]
}

First you need to create these Assets using the Asset endpoint sending an Asset Operation. You will need to do this for all the Assets required.

Then you need to also include the AssetGroupAsset Operations as part of the Campaign request you are sending.

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