This is pretty much what I'm thinking ... or perhaps creating the campaign in a paused state, and only setting to Active once the targeting has been successfully performed.
Still, would be easier if it were possible to set all the necessary targeting on creation, which is the purpose of my question really - to see if I am missing something, and it is infact possible. On Monday, March 25, 2013 11:48:55 AM UTC-5, Steve Wollkind wrote: > > Your campaign won't serve anything until you have both ads and keywords > attached to it, so maybe you can just confirm that your targeting has been > set without error (query back the campaign state, etc) prior to actually > creating ad groups/ad texts/keywords? Maybe there's some reason this > approach can't work for you? > > Steve > > On Monday, March 25, 2013 11:06:44 AM UTC-4, Chris wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> This is the current flow of my application: >> Create Campaing >> SetCampaignDevices >> setLocationTargettingInfo >> setCampaignLanguageTargeting >> >> So, after the first step the campaign is in existence with non of the >> targeting that we require e.g. at this point it is targeting All Locations. >> >> This is not ideal, for example we could run into some kind of problem >> between the campaign being created, and performing the campaign targeting, >> leaving the campaign with the initial default settings. >> >> So, I was wondering - is there any way to perform the targeting in the >> same step as the campaign being created? Or is it unavoidable that we will >> go through a first stage where the campaign comes into existence without >> any targeting? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
