Yeah, I'm guessing there is something about our account setup or maybe even some strange value in the headline field of one or more of our ads that is causing the barf.
I'm not sure what you mean by "requestid". Here is the reportDefinitionId value returned when the definition is created. I did not see a property called requestid when I inspected the ReportDefinition object. 1667306 Thanks for your help- Taylor On Aug 10, 10:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Taylor, > > Can you post the requestId for a request where you added the report > definition successfully, but got "Unknown error" when downloading the > report? The code example was running fine on my account, so I wish to > check if this error has something to do with your account. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Aug 11, 6:18 am, Taylor Lilley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Anash, your second link is very helpful. I have one issue running your > > example code however. When I try to create the All Ads report, I get > > an exception when the code tries to download the file. The returned > > exception is "Unknown Exception". I can make the exception go away by > > removing the Headline column from the report fields. This is very > > strange. Do you have any idea why this would happen? > > > All other reports run as expected. Thanks a ton for the sample code. > > > On Aug 10, 5:19 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi Taylor, > > > > AdWords API doesn't provide any API calls or reports where you can > > > download the entire MCC in a single call. One way to solve your issue > > > in a fast and cost effective way would be to store the list of child > > > accounts locally at your end, and then run Ad performance report on > > > each of the child accounts. The report service in the new AdWords API > > > is much faster than v13 reports, and more cost effective than looping > > > through campaigns and adgroups to retrieve the ads. > > > > You can find more about the new ReportDefinitionService and how it can > > > be used to download a single account at the following locations: > > > >http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/07/introduction-to-reportdefiniti...... > > > > Cheers, > > > Anash P. Oommen, > > > AdWords API Advisor. > > > > On Aug 10, 5:35 am, Taylor Lilley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Our organization has 10s of 1000s of ads running. I've seen another > > > > post where the poster wanted to "get the entire MCC" in a single API > > > > call for similar reasons, but there was no real answer > > > > provided...sooo... > > > > > Is there a report that could pull a full list of ALL ads under a > > > > specified MCC? Traversing down the hierarchy from clientAccount > > > > (nested loops) is ridiculously slow and relatively costly. > > > > > The reason we need this is that our marketing guys track their own > > > > internal "campaign IDs" for reporting purposes. These "CID" values as > > > > they call them are only found in the ad.URL field. I need a full list > > > > of all ads that we've set up in AdWords so that I can build a map in > > > > our local database between our marketing department's CID and Google's > > > > CampaignID (it's a one to many relationship). > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
