What's the best way to setup multiple Criterion values for the same item?

[Gary Jiang]

Hi,

I am trying to set up some adgroup criterion values and age range. Since I found that only one criteria id is accepted for one operand, I have to put multiple operands in a request to set the criteria to be something like "Eligible for 18-25 and 65+, and excluded for all the rest age range" by using a combination of BiddingAdGroupCriterion and NegativeAdGroupCriterion. I was wondering if this is the best implementation we could have using the latest version of AdWords API for now. Thanks

Gary

[Bharani Cherukuri (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Gary, 

You're right. You will need to have multiple operands for both Positive and Negative AdGroup criterion. You could use AdGroupCriterionService.mutate() and select the AdGroupCriterion as BiddableAdGroupCriterion with Criterion as AgeRange to include all positive criterion. To exclude a specific age group criterion, you can use NegativeAdGroupCriterion. You may refer to this code sample in Java as a reference. Code samples in other languages can be found here. 

Regards,

Bharani, AdWords API Team