Greetings. I'm porting our software from the v13 ReportService to v201008 ReportDefinitionService, and I've hit some problems that will cause us a lot of pain. The v13 creative report ( http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report_creative.html ) used to give us a lot of IDs and descriptive fields which we have come to rely upon. For example, the columns CampaignID, Campaign, AdGroupId, AdGroup, Keyword, KeywordTypeDisplay all made this report extremely useful, as they provided us all the information we needed on the campaign hierarchy, including descriptive fields, and the keyword text. When talking to other search engines, we would hold up this particular report as an example of an ideal report that they should try to mimic.
The new AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT doesn't contain either the CampaignID or Campaign, meaning we would have to derive that from the AdGroupID. It doesn't contain the AdGroup ( descriptive field ). It doesn't contain the Keyword ( text ) or KerywordTypeDisplay. Our reporting code runs each night, and is de-coupled from the code that maintains the campaign hierarchy and descriptive fields. So removing these columns from the report means that we have to implement a lot of other API calls in our reporting software to fetch campaigns, adgroups, and keywords, as we encounter them in a report. This is far from ideal. I understand that restricting the columns available in reports helps reports to run faster, but this benefit is lost if we have to then fetch each item as we encounter it, to get descriptive fields. What's the chance of getting these ( and other ) useful columns back in the AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT? Thanks :) Dan -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
