Jeff - Thanks for the thorough answer. Would running the report from my adwords interface give me a good sense of whether or not running the report from the API would be sucessful?
Thanks, Ryan On Sep 17, 10:11 am, AdWords API Advisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > There are no hard limits on the account level. However, the reports > center backend will have trouble running reports based on the number > of rows that would be returned. Factors like the date range, the > number of elements in each account, and obviously the number of > subaccounts can all affect the number of rows that will be returned. > If you exceed the capacity that the reports backend can currently > support, you'll either get a failure at the time the report is > scheduled or the report will process for a while and then go into a > Failed status. Zero-impression Keyword reports are especially > heavyweight, so you might find that you can request a smaller amount > of data for those types of reports than others. > > What I'd recommend you do is to first try running your report with > crossClient set to true and without specifying anything for the > clientEmails value in your DefinedReportJob. This will result in a > cross-client report scheduled for all the sub-accounts under your MCC. > If that completes successfully in a reasonable amount of time then you > should be good to go in the future with that method. > > If your report fails then you'll want to do one of two things: either > break your report into X smaller reports, and list 1/X of the sub- > accounts in each DefinedReportJob's clientEmails attribute. > Alternatively, you could fundamentally change your AdWords account > structure and move form the one MCC->many AdWords account topology to > something like one MCC (with your tokens)->a few sub MCCs->many > AdWords accounts. Then you can schedule cross-client reports in each > sub-MCC without having to specify the client emails that you're > interested in. The other advantage of changing your account structure > like that would be that each sub-MCC would have its own separate > Reports Center that could retain the last 15 reports, rather > scheduling X number of reports that all go into a single MCC's Reports > Center. > > Changing your AdWords account structure, especially when there are > many sub-accounts, can be fairly time consuming. If you have a > relationship with an AdWords account representative already you might > want to engage him/her for assistance if you decide to go that path. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Sep 16, 8:20 pm, Ryan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an MCC account with many (many) accounts underneath. I need to > > do reporting across accounts. > > > Is there a limit to the number of accounts that can be combined into a > > single scheduled report job? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
