Any thought on that?

On Jan 3, 12:27 am, Kelvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI,Ewan.
>
> Thanks for your explanation. I checked your post just now and you're
> right on the issue of uniqueness of keywordId. I have to redesign the
> primary key in the table of my local database...
> However, I still have to get the keywordId from the report because the
> problem is: under the same adgroup, there're two identical keywords
> with only differences in keywordId and bid. So When I try to reconcile
> the data from the report, I need to identify the keywords by their ids
> and adgroupIds. In another word, without keywordId, I still couldn't
> tell which keyword is the one I want.
>
> By the way, what do you mean by using account structure report? Is it
> the one that is scheduled by defining and executing reportjob in local
> application? If so, that takes time and api everyday, which sounds not
> ideal at all.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kelvin.
>
> On Jan 2, 1:44 pm, ewan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Kelvin,
>
> > I just posted a similar question on this forum about the keyword id's
> > uniqueness.  You'll find that it's not actually unique anyway so you
> > also need the adgroup id to identify a keyword using the id that comes
> > from the API.  I think you also need the campaign id to uniquely
> > identify the adgroup.  I usually just create my own unique key based
> > on the campaign name, adgroup name, keyword text and match type.  If I
> > need the ids for making calls back to the API, I usually just use the
> > account structure report.  I think this is only available via the API
> > but one call to this at the keyword level will give you all the ids
> > you need. The report only needs to be run periodically to keep the
> > database up to date so doesn't consume too many API units.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Ewan- Hide quoted text -
>
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