Adwords Reporting and Account Management

[adwordst...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I want to create reports for Adwords Campaigns and Manage Adwords Account. I wish to do this by using Adwords API and I already have a test MCC account (account 1) which I created a test developer token, refresh token and other necessary generated values. I am trying to generate a campaign report for another test account (account 2). I believe I will need to link account 2 to account 1 and allow account 1 to gain access to account 2. I want to try the manual method first before trying it with Adwords API and I get the error "This Google Account is already associated with the maximum number of Adwords Account". I am pretty sure that account 1 has not other Adwords Accounts linked, so does this mean that it is not possible to test reporting on another account's Adwords campaign through the use of test accounts? I do not expect the report to show anything but I just wanna test the linking of the account and if a report can be generated; I would also like to use this method to test the account management functionalities. If I have to test these functionalities, does it mean I need to use actual Adwords Accounts? If that is the case, does it mean I need a developer token?

Thank you.

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

You will be fine using account 1's developer token, but just as a initial step, you would need to set up authorization through OAuth2 to enable your AdWords API client app to access account 2. After that, you will be able to create reports and manage AdWords Accounts via the API.

Regarding issues with manual method of testing via the UI, you may want to post your question on the advertisers community forum so that the product experts there can assist you.

Regards,
Dhanya, AdWords API Team