Report in sandbox don't contain random data.

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vdv

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May 23, 2008, 9:15:03 AM5/23/08
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I am using apility.

Then i am done request in Sandbox:

getKeywordXmlReport("Report Name","2006-09-01","2007-09-01",
["Keyword","KeywordId","CampaignId","CampaignStatus"],["Daily"],[2406],
[],[],[],[],[],"SearchOnly","Broad",false,[],true,30,false)

this return me:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<report><table><columns><column name="campaign"/><column
name="adgroup"/><column name="agStatus"/><column name="imps"/><column
name="clicks"/><column name="ctr"/><column name="cpc"/><column
name="cost"/><column name="pos"/></columns><rows/></
table><totals><grandtotal imps="0" clicks="0" ctr="0.0" cpc="0"
cost="0" pos="0.0" cpm="0"/></totals></report>

But I expected random generated data.

How can I do request to return me random statistic? Is it possible?

dshevnock

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May 23, 2008, 4:36:43 PM5/23/08
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If you request reports, the reports will be empty. Someone please
correct me if I am wrong, but you would receive randomly generated
data from services such as the KeywordToolService,
SiteSuggestionService, etc. (We have never actually used these
services, but these are the ones I would expect random data to be
returned.)

vdv

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May 25, 2008, 1:26:09 PM5/25/08
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But in AdWords API Developer's Guide (http://www.google.com/apis/
adwords/developer/adwords_api_sandbox.html#reportservice)
write "All Sandbox report jobs contain random data unrelated to any
live accounts."
May be need to do something for show random data?

AdWords API Advisor

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May 27, 2008, 3:27:21 PM5/27/08
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Hello,

In one of the recent Sandbox updates (I think it may have been when
v12 went live), the mock report that gets returned from the Sandbox's
report service went from being populated with some (static) dummy data
to being empty. This is obviously less that ideal, and I have a
request in with the folks who maintain the Sandbox environment to put
up something more useful there.

That being said, I think your best bet for exercising your report
parsing code is to actually schedule a report in the production
environment (you can do this from the http://adwords.google.com/ web
interface or via the API), and then download the underlying XML for
the completed report from the web interface. You can then use the
local copy of this report to test your parsing logic. The XML should
be identical to a report scheduled and retrieved via the API, though
you just have to be careful to select the appropriate columns when
scheduling the report via the web interface.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
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