Change from deleted to removed

[Rodrigo Lopez Guerra]

Hi i just got the msg :

The "Status" column values in reports will soon be changed to show "Removed" instead of "Deleted." This change makes it clear that certain items, like campaigns, remain available for future reference.

If you use spreadsheets or other scripting languages for your downloaded reports, you might need to update them.

Is this impacting only the reports , or the status returned by the api will change as well ?

Thanks , 

Regards

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Rodrigo,

All of the services are affected, as an example, see the campaign status field:

  https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201406/CampaignService.Campaign#status

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Rodrigo,

This will also affect API, but this change is versioned. If you use v201402 or earlier, you will get old values (e.g. Deleted), whereas you get the new values (e.g. Removed) when using v201406 or later. So you'd need to fix your code when migrating to v201406.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[MarcF]

Hi,
When an adgroup entity status is set to "Removed" with v201406, we can not switch status to Enabled or Paused (OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_REMOVED_ENTITY).

But with the UI it's possible, and if we use 201402, the entity removed, can be restored with the wanted status (Paused,..)

How can we have the same behavior between UI and the API  v201406 ?

Thanks,
Regards

[Eric Maas]

Hi,

We are also having trouble with this.  More specifically, using v201406, if we attempt to add a new AdGroup with the same name as a currently removed AdGroup, we still get a DUPLICATE_ADGROUP_NAME error.  However, we are unable to update the name of the removed AdGroup to something different (or change it's status to Paused/Active and then change the name and re-delete), as we get the OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_REMOVED_ENTITY.

It seems that if you no longer allow operations on removed AdGroups, then there should no longer be a DUPLICATE_ADGROUP_NAME error when attempting to add a new AdGroup with it's name?

Thanks,

Eric

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Eric,

I believe that's because you can still undelete adgroups with v201402 or the UI.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[Eric Maas]

OK thanks - we'll use v201402 to handle this for now, hopefully it will change once the version is retired.

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[Igor Schut]

Hi there,

We have stumbled on this exact same issue.

Can anyone explain to me the purpose behind all of this? These kind of changes have major impact; how come this never been a highlight in previous blogposts?

- Igor

Op woensdag 23 juli 2014 15:57:12 UTC+2 schreef Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team):

[adword...@pass-consulting.com]

Hi, 

I have a question realted to this issue: I have a program which toggles the state of some adgroups between enabled and paused.

Since I determine which adgroups are affected by searching for certain keywords. I will now run into problems, if I detect a keyword which ia associated wit an deactivated adgroup

Is it possible to write a selector, which will find only keywords associated with a adgroups and campaigns which are not removed. As fas as I have seen I can include the field userStatus and filter for enabled keyword. But this will still find all enabled keywords, which are associated with removed adwords and will trigger an error if I try to change the status of the adgroup

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

I believe you can include AdGroupStatus = ENABLED and CampaignStatus = ENABLED in the AWQL, though these aren't directly part of the AdGroupCriterion object. If that doesn't work, you'd have to do this yourself by fetching the campaigns and adgroups first using CampaignService and AdGroupService.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[adword...@pass-consulting.com]

Hi Anash,

I tried your tip using  the fields AdGroupStatus  resp. CampaignStatus. It did not work. Nor with the get method and neigther wit the query method.
When I tried

 $query = 'SELECT Id,  Status, KeywordText, AdGroupId  WHERE AdGroupStatus != ENABLED   ORDER BY Id';
 
 // Create paging controls.
 $offset = 0;
 $adGroupCriterionService = $user->GetAdGroupCriterionService ();
 do {
 $pageQuery = sprintf('%s LIMIT %d,%d', $query, $offset,
 AdWordsConstants::RECOMMENDED_PAGE_SIZE);
 // Make the query request.
 $page = $adGroupCriterionService->query($pageQuery);

I get an error has occurred: [SelectorError.INVALID_PREDICATE_FIELD_NAME @ query; trigger:'AdGroupStatus'].

Seems there is no way around doing it on my own.

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

If that selector doesn't work, then there aren't any workarounds that I am aware of.

Cheers,
Anash