Thanks for the suggestion. We can do that, but that's a long and slow way of achieving the result which I'd like to avoid if possible. It would have been great if we could filter on the adgroup status if we can.
Any other ideas from the pro users of the API or the API team? Oliver On Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:57:07 PM UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: > > One idea is, you can first get the list of AdGroups that are Active, using > the AdGroupService. Then build a list of the IDs of those ad groups, and > use it in the selector of the keywords (along with the Status predicate > that picks only active keywords). > > On Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:26:09 PM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: >> >> We're trying to use the AdgroupCriterionService to get some information >> about *active *keywords only. We're using the 'Status' selector field >> to ensure only data for active keywords are returned. >> >> However, there are deleted Adgroups whose keywords are still in 'active' >> status. Adwords users typically just pause or delete an adgroup without >> having to change the status of each keyword inside it. >> >> As you can guess, the issue we now have is we're getting back data for >> these active keywords that are in the deleted adgroups! >> >> I can't see any selector field that we can use to filter by the Adgroup >> status as well. >> >> Any ideas how we can get round this issue please? Is there any other way >> we can target only the truly active keywords in the campaign? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help with this. >> >> Oliver >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
