Reg ex in AdWords filter?

[Jacob Kildebogaard]

Am i wrong, or is it not possible to filter campaigns with regular expression? I can only use "contains" or "equals" filters.

[Mikael Thuneberg]

You're correct, the AdWords API does not allow regex filtering.

[Jacob Kildebogaard]

Ok, thank you Mikael.

Are there any workarounds? Can you make "OR" filters, or how can it be solved? I need to group campaigns by name, but i dont have the same string in all campaign names.

Cheers,
Jacob

[Mikael Thuneberg]

Unfortunately, the AdWords API does not support OR combinations either. We would need to add some logic on our side that does this, which is possible, but we can't do it right now due to other projects we're working on.

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[Mikael Thuneberg]

This was a good feature request so we decided to move quickly after all: you can now use regex filters in the AdWords and Bing Ads modules in v. 1.7061 (supermetrics.com/download). OR combinations is more difficult to implement so that will have to wait.

[Jacob Kildebogaard]

That is the spirit Mikael :) Totally awesome, it helps me a lot. Just bought it yesterday no matter, but now it is really worth the price! Thanks!

[Jacob Kildebogaard]

Hi again

I made some tests, and it seems like "Does not match regex" does not work. If I make a simple filter like

Does not match regex brand|generic

the output is the total numbers.

Cheers,
Jacob

[Mikael Thuneberg]

It works when I try it, are you sure it doesn't for you? If so, can you send me the file with this report for checking.

Note that by default, it's doing case-sensitive matching. If you want case-insensitive, add delimiters and an "i" after the latter delimiter, so for example #brand|generic#i

For more information in the syntax, see http://us1.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

[Jacob Kildebogaard]

Case-sensitive was the keyword... It all works now!

You can be sure that this tool will be mentioned to Superweek.hu in my speak :)

Thanks again!

[Mikael Thuneberg]

Great to hear it works now! Really appreciate if you can mention the tool at Superweek :)

[Jay Wilner]

I hope its okay to join this thread.

i have been trying to set up a regex filter that is case sensitive for GA data.

i have a situation where there are source names in both cases (Banner and banner). i want to remove the upper case instance.

i have tried this: medium=~none|banner|cpc|email|maps|organic|referral;medium!@companion;medium!@Banner

but it seems to remain the default analytics result (regex ignores case).  can i force it somehow?

[Mikael Thuneberg]

I don't know, for Google Analytics it's Google that handles these filters so you'll have to see their instructions. For AdWords, we do regex filtering on our side (as Google does not provide it in the AdWords API), so we can control it, and there you can set case-sensitive filters (regex filters in the AdWords module are case-sensitive by default, and can be made case-insensitive by adding "i" after in the end).

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