WOW - That's really helpful. Thanks. It worked. Now I see my trial accounts.
This should be on your "Getting Started" instructions. The part about the clientEmail header is nowhere to be found (unless I missed it). On Jan 6, 11:14 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Here's the full process: > > 1. Create a new GMail account (or use an existing GMail account, but > it's nice to keep things separate) > 2. Make a getClientAccounts() call to the Sandbox with the following > headers set: > email: address of the GMail account > password: password of the GMail account > useragent: set to any identifying string > developerToken: set to the value for email, with the string '+ > +USD' (or the currency code of your choice) appended > applicationToken: ignored, and could be set to anything or left out > clientEmail: should be set either to the empty string or left out > 2a. Making this call is what creates the 5 client accounts in the > Sandbox's datastore. The accounts are named client_1+[email] through > client_5+[email]. > 3. For all future Sandbox calls, set the headers as mentioned in step > 2, with one change: include a clientEmail header with the value set to > client_n+[email], e.g. '[email protected]'. > > Whenever the Sandbox's datastore is refreshed, the client accounts > are wiped out and you'd need to start from step 2 to recreate them. > Sandbox refreshes happen about once a month. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Jan 5, 6:41 pm, purdue512 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I also found the following posted elsewhere. This doesn't exactly > > clear it up for me. Will the 5 sub-accounts be emailed to me or is > > there a call to see them? I can't find any reference to this > > anywhere.. > > > Many thanks. > > > Patrick Chanezon Aug 17, 2006 > > > I'm sorry about all the issues you encountered. > > > There is one missing warning in the documentation: the client_1 to 5 > > subaccounts are created in the sandbox only after your first > > successful > > call. > > So if you first call contains a clientEmail header it fails. > > But after you made a successful first call (for example getting the > > amount > > of free quota), the accounts have been created and then you can make > > calls > > using clientEmail headers. > > > I just tried it out and it works fine. > > I guess the reason it worked last week was that you had made a first > > call > > without this header. > > These accounts are cleaned up from the sandbox regularly. > > > P@ > > > On Jan 5, 6:25 pm, purdue512 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Your instructions for getting an Adwords account up and running in the > > > sandbox say: > > > > "When you first access a web service in the sandbox, five sandbox > > > client accounts are automatically created for you. You can work with > > > these client accounts by setting the clientEmail header > > > appropriately." > > > > I seem to be accessing the sandbox just fine as my request for > > > accounts comes back with an empty array. When I try to build a > > > campaign using CampaignService.addCampaign, yoru web service says: > > > > faultString: Client managers cannot have campaigns of their own. > > > > I'm assuming that I need to be using one of the 5 sandbox client > > > accounts that are automatically created for me when I first access the > > > sandbox. Where are those? How do I get to that information? > > > > Thx > > > > p.s. Someone else said something about getting a sandbox account > > > "approved". I did not see anything related to that process in your > > > sandbox instructions. It only says you need to have an active Google > > > account... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
