Hi Kevin, Currency symbols are treated as one character, so that shouldn't be an issue. For the ad group you've used in this request, the defaults values in the ad are the same as the values you set. How are you determining that the values aren't being inserted?
Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Jul 16, 12:51 am, kevinm <[email protected]> wrote: > I have noticed that on many of my ads the ad parameters are not > updating and the default parameter is being used, but I can see no > reason for it. > > I get no errors when setting the new parameters (soap details below). > > One thing I am suspecting is that there is a problem with the currency > symbol (in my case £). Say I set the price to £1000. That is 5 > characters long. When I look at the xml response I see that this is > translated to £1000 (£ ;1000 in case it hasn't displayed > properly) which is 11 characters long. > > Is this 11 characters getting counted towards the overall length of > the ad headline, and because it is too long drops back to the default > setting? Or any other ideas? > > [Jul 15 2010 17:55:36.000000 - INFO] POST /api/adwords/cm/v200909/ > AdParamService HTTP/1.1 > Host: adwords.google.com > Connection: Keep-Alive > User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.2.12, gzip > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > Content-Encoding: gzip > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 > SOAPAction: "" > Content-Length: 750 > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ > envelope/" xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <SOAP-ENV:Header> > <ns1:RequestHeader xsi:type="ns1:RequestHeader"> > <ns1:applicationToken>******uA</ns1:applicationToken> > <ns1:authToken>*****</ns1:authToken> > <ns1:clientEmail>ke...@****.co.uk</ns1:clientEmail> > <ns1:developerToken>*****</ns1:developerToken> > <ns1:userAgent>PHP v5.2.12 - AdWords API PHP Client Library - > v2.0.0 - Kevins Scripts</ns1:userAgent> > </ns1:RequestHeader> > </SOAP-ENV:Header> > <SOAP-ENV:Body> > <ns1:mutate> > <ns1:operations> > <ns1:operator>SET</ns1:operator> > <ns1:operand> > <ns1:adGroupId>1911126676</ns1:adGroupId> > <ns1:criterionId>18623363596</ns1:criterionId> > <ns1:insertionText>£1215</ns1:insertionText> > <ns1:paramIndex>1</ns1:paramIndex> > </ns1:operand> > </ns1:operations> > <ns1:operations> > <ns1:operator>SET</ns1:operator> > <ns1:operand> > <ns1:adGroupId>1911126676</ns1:adGroupId> > <ns1:criterionId>18623363596</ns1:criterionId> > <ns1:insertionText>5</ns1:insertionText> > <ns1:paramIndex>2</ns1:paramIndex> > </ns1:operand> > </ns1:operations> > </ns1:mutate> > </SOAP-ENV:Body> > </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 > SOAPAction: "" > Content-Encoding: gzip > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:36 GMT > Expires: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:36 GMT > Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 > X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff > X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN > X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block > Server: GSE > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > <soap:Header> > <ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909"> > <requestId>91cb4ff7f25522e78b25cb300d6a08d9</requestId> > <operations>2</operations> > <responseTime>179</responseTime> > <units>1</units> > </ResponseHeader> > </soap:Header> > <soap:Body> > <mutateResponse xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909"> > <rval> > <adGroupId>1911126676</adGroupId> > <criterionId>18623363596</criterionId> > <insertionText>£1215</insertionText> > <paramIndex>1</paramIndex> > </rval> > <rval> > <adGroupId>1911126676</adGroupId> > <criterionId>18623363596</criterionId> > <insertionText>5</insertionText> > <paramIndex>2</paramIndex> > </rval> > </mutateResponse> > </soap:Body> > </soap:Envelope> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
