This is correct, reports with sandbox accounts will behave the same as if the account has no traffic (zero impressions). Another option is to exclude fields that prevent zero impressions, which will return structure data (and zero for metrics).
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:51:23 PM UTC-4, Alex Jones wrote: > > as far as I am aware, google doesn't support any sort of random data > generation in sandbox. I'd love to hear one way or the other from devs. > My advice is for the short term, run that report on a single target and > save the zip file it output, then any time you want to test again - have > your program just reopen that zip rather than redownloading. I accomplish > this via a debug flag, that simply skips the download if true. > > On Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:55:11 PM UTC-4, Timothy Klim wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm testing my application with report data by this query: >> post >> https://adwords-sandbox.google.com/api/adwords/reportdownload/v201209 >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <reportDefinition xmlns=" >> https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109";> >> <selector> >> <fields>Id</fields> >> <fields>Date</fields> >> <fields>AdGroupId</fields> >> <fields>Impressions</fields> >> <fields>Clicks</fields> >> <fields>Cost</fields> >> <fields>Conversions</fields> >> <fields>ConversionValue</fields> >> <fields>AveragePosition</fields> >> </selector> >> <reportName>Report</reportName> >> <reportType>AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT</reportType> >> <dateRangeType>ALL_TIME</dateRangeType> >> <downloadFormat>GZIPPED_XML</downloadFormat> >> </reportDefinition> >> >> and I got empty results. >> I've created campaigns, groups, ads, keywords: >> http://cl.ly/image/3e142j35272T. >> >> What I need to do for random data in report results? >> >> Thank you. >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
