ExtensionFeedItem - How to update/remove settings from device?

[Christoph Lanz]

Dear Google Ads Api Team,

I am building a function to manage Sitelinks. Some of the settings are managed with the "ExtensionFeedItem" function, which controls:

- Startdate

- Enddate

- Scheduling

- Device Preference

I am able to create and update these settings, but once they are created I am not able to remove them again. Especially trouble causes me the "device" setting:

- When I set the device preference to "2" (mobile) it works fine, but when I try to set again to "0" (all devices), the API ignores this input.

- Not indicating the "device" would also do no change in the Sitelink.

- deleting the entire extension feed item would delete the whole Sitelink, which would reset sitelink history, I would like to avoid this if possible.

Could you please help me to see what I am missing?

Many thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Christoph

Example code of my function: 

$extensionsetting = new ExtensionFeedItem([

'resource_name' => 'customers/CUSTOMERID/extensionFeedItems/FEEDITEMID,

'start_date_time' => $STARTDATE,

'end_date_time' => $ENDDATE,

'ad_schedules' => $SCHEDULINGINFO, 

'device' => '2'

]);

$adGroupExtensionSettingOperation = new ExtensionFeedItemOperation();

$adGroupExtensionSettingOperation->setUpdate($extensionsetting);

$adGroupExtensionSettingOperation->setUpdateMask(FieldMasks::allSetFieldsOf($extensionsetting));

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Christoph,

Thank you for reaching out. In order to remove/set a specific attribute to the default value, I would recommend performing an update_mask operation on the ExtensionFeedItemService. You should specifically set the path of the update_mask to "device" as I explained in this forum post.

Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team

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[Christoph Lanz]

Hello Mitchell,

Great, many thanks! This gave me the hint that I needed!

Kind regards, and have a nice weekend,

Christoph