Thanks Ray, We're storing and handling the errors that return, but that still leaves the orphaned AdGroup - I can maybe put in a clean up operation to handle this at a later stage.
Thanks again for your input. :-) On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:32:32 PM UTC+1, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Alan, > > We don't support this at the moment. Each mutate request is atomic by its > own. It's recommended that the client application handle the error > conditions accordingly as every user may have a different requirement for > this. > > Thanks! > > Ray > > On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:13:19 AM UTC-4, Alan Coleman wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> We've built an app with the AdWords API and it's working really well. >> >> Our app creates AdGroups and furnishes them with Ads, Keywords and >> Negative Keywords. >> >> We create our Adgroups first and use the IDs from the >> *AdGroupReturnValue* to then create Ads, Keywords and Negative Keywords >> using the new AdGroup ID. >> >> There is a problem with this approach - If there is an error or the API >> Rejects either the Ads, Keywords or Negative Keywords we're left with an >> empty AdGroup. >> >> *So my question is this:* >> >> Is there a way that I can create an AdGroup and furnish it with Ads, >> Keywords and Negative Keywords at the same time, without having to return >> the newly created AdGroup ID to our app? >> >> This would not only be a more elegant solution but would probably cost >> less in terms of Rate Limit. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/d/optout.
