Hi Pete,

Is there any pattern to which campaign names are rejected?  Is this
behavior consistent across multiple accounts?

Best,
- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team

On Oct 6, 8:36 am, "Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We believe we sometimes receive an invalid error message when trying
> to add a campaign.  Here is the procedure:
>
> 1) Try to add a campaign through the API
> 2) Receive an error message like:
>
> AxisFault
>  faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}
> Server.userException
>  faultSubcode:
>  faultString: One or more input elements failed validation.
>  faultActor:
>  faultNode:
>  faultDetail:
>         {https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v13/reseller}fault:
>        <ns1:code>122</ns1:code>
>        <ns1:message>One or more input elements failed validation.</
> ns1:message>
>        <ns1:errors>
>         <ns1:index>3</ns1:index>
>         <ns1:field>name</ns1:field>
>         <ns1:trigger>Parts</ns1:trigger>
>         <ns1:code>36</ns1:code>
>         <ns1:isExemptable>false</ns1:isExemptable>
>         <ns1:detail>Campaign name is already taken</ns1:detail>
>      </ns1:errors>
>
> 3) Look in the web UI and see no campaign for this account with the
> same name ... other campaigns we just added through same methods are
> visible in UI
> 4) Try to add through API a couple more times, receive same error
> 5) Finally our transaction goes through without receiving the error
> message
> 6) Campaign is now visible in UI
>
> Seems something is out of whack because we're not removing anything
> from the UI in order to make room for this campaign ... and it doesn't
> make sense that we could try to add the campaign maybe 5 times in a
> row with failures each time but then a 6th time the API finally
> realizes there's no campaign with that name
>
> I don't have API call transaction IDs ... I can provide Google with
> more details about the account and campaign we were trying to add.
>
> Pete
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