Seriously? I can't track when my ads were enabled and when they weren't? I think I speak for everybody when I say that sucks in a big way. What can we do to get that very serious shortcoming fixed? Sorry, but that's such a ridiculous "feature" that we all thought it had to be a bug. Where do we need to go to put in a feature request to get this fixed?
On Friday, August 17, 2012 7:19:55 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: > There are some fields in adwords that are not tracked over time. These are > mainly 'structural' data fields. AdState is one of them. You will only > ever going to see the latest state when you download the performance > reports. Just like you can see only the latest value of 'campaign budget' > and not how it's been changing over time. > > Oliver > > On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:37:00 PM UTC+1, road11 wrote: >> >> In the Ad Performance Report, there is a column called AdState. It shows >> one of two values: enabled or disabled. We also know that whenever we make >> a change to an ad's headline or display url (and probably other critical >> fields as well), that ad receives a new AdId, essentially making it a "new >> ad." The old AdId will still appear in the Ad Performance report, but its >> AdState will show up as "disabled." >> >> We need to track ad performance from the previous week, so I modified the >> code to download the Ad Performance report to grab all the data from the >> last 5 days (definition.dateRangeType = >> ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;) >> and set the date min and max values to the previous 5 days. So far, so good. >> >> Here's the problem... >> >> Yesterday, we changed the headline of one of our ads, which essentially >> gave it a new AdId, rendering the old AdId to an AdState of "disabled." But >> as I look at the AdState of our Ad Performance Report for that old AdId, it >> shows the AdState as "disabled" *for the entire week*. That's not right; >> we just changed the thing yesterday. Why is it showing the ad as disabled >> for the entire week? I can see why it would be disabled for today, but for >> all time up until yesterday, that ad should be shown as very much enabled. >> >> This is really going to goof up our ability to track our ad performance >> over time. Is this a bug? Or is this by design? >> >> Eric >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
