Hi Juergen, The underlying code that makes changes to ads will always flag the PolicyViolationError. In the AdWords UI, this will simply highlight the message as a warning and automatically request a PolicyExemption (which allows the ad to be created, but it will still require manual review by our policy team. The AdWords API makes this explicit by returning the PolicyViolationError and require an explicit exemption request to make sure that callers are cognizant that they are requesting an exemption and that the ad could still be disapproved on policy grounds.
We've published a HandlePolicyViolationError<http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ads-java/source/browse/examples/adwords_axis/src/main/java/adwords/axis/v201206/errorhandling/HandlePolicyViolationError.java>code example in our client libraries to demonstrate how to handle this. - Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:31:29 AM UTC-4, Jürgen wrote: > > Hi, > > we use the AdGroupAdService to mutate target urls on ads. The headline and > the description fields will not changed. But unfortunately we got policy > violation errors on many ads, though the ads already exists in Google > AdWords. It seems, that AdWords will apply different policies on *how *the > ad is created or changed - AdWords Editor vs. Google AdWords Webapplication > vs. Google AdWords API. > > How is it possible, that changes on ads are rejected (eg. usage off > registered brands, etc.), though the respective headlines and description > are not changed? Is this a Google AdWords API bug? > Is there any workaround to prevent this problem? > > Many thanks in advance > Juergen > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
