Hi Eric,
I have absolutely zero knowledge of C#, but this link might help you to get
a general idea about ad hoc reports:
<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting>
It's basically a synchronous HTTP request with your report definition as
data, returning the desired report.
Hope this helps,
Dorian
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:11:04 PM UTC+2, road11 wrote:
>
> Thank you, Dorian. No, I didn't know that. I've been slinging Microsoft
> code for nearly 20 years, but still relatively new to the Adwords API with
> .Net. So I have to create an ad-hoc report with C# and then I can call it
> by it's id? Might you know of some C# examples where I can see where you do
> this?
>
> Thanks in advance for your kind response.
>
> Eric
>
> On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:16:07 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote:
>>
>> You probably know this, but if the reports were originally defined in the
>> UI, they will not be available via the API. Apart from that, I can't offer
>> any help but I'd recommend using ad hoc reports instead of the
>> ReportDefinitionService (which will be deprecated anyway).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Monday, July 16, 2012 8:48:00 PM UTC+2, road11 wrote:
>>>
>>> Using the C# v201109_1 code samples as a model, I'm trying to download
>>> one of our many previously defined and named reports. Here's the code that
>>> Google gave us to get our report definitions that isn't working (assuming a
>>> valid AdwordsUser object)...
>>>
>>>
>>> ReportDefinitionService reportDefinitionService =
>>> (ReportDefinitionService) user.GetService(
>>> AdWordsService.v201109_1.ReportDefinitionService);
>>>
>>> // Create the selector.
>>> ReportDefinitionSelector selector = new ReportDefinitionSelector();
>>>
>>> try {
>>> // Get all report definitions.
>>> ReportDefinitionPage page = reportDefinitionService.get(selector);
>>>
>>> // Display report definitions.
>>> if (page != null && page.entries != null && page.entries.Length >
>>> 0) {
>>> foreach (ReportDefinition reportDefinition in page.entries) {
>>> writer.WriteLine("ReportDefinition with name \"{0}\" and id
>>> \"{1}\" was found.",
>>> reportDefinition.reportName, reportDefinition.id);
>>> }
>>> } else {
>>> writer.WriteLine("No report definitions were found.");
>>> }
>>>
>>> } catch (Exception ex) {
>>> throw new System.ApplicationException("Failed to retrieve report
>>> definitions.", ex);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> ...however, this code keeps telling me that page.entries is null. We've got
>>> at least 1400 named reports defined in this Google Adwords account. How is
>>> it possible that this code can find none of them? I thought the selector
>>> might be the problem, but the ReportDefinitionSelector doesn't even have a
>>> fields property, so that can't be the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> I would be most grateful if someone could post a (working) C# example of
>>> how to get a list of available reports and how to download a single named
>>> report from an Adwords account.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>
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