i already asked about them in this group:
- campaign sub-type ("ads in mobile apps")
- wifi networks (hence my other question you answered - i speculated
whether targeting "all carriers" implicitly excludes "wifi")
- BTW duplicating campaign, by itself could be a nice feature: most of
the campaigns i'm working with are very similar. using a campaign as a
template might have saved some coding and debugging (maybe also performance
hits).
- other feature that i miss, if we're already opening this subject, is
the ability to fully dump a campaign via the API - see all its settings,
thank you
On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:06:37 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords
API Team) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> That's true -- if there are features in the template campaign that are not
> settable by the API, then my approach won't work.
>
> I'm curious: which targeting options or campaign settings that you need
> are not settable via the API?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh, AdWords API Team
>
> On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 7:29:51 AM UTC-5, Berry wrote:
>>
>> again my incomplete question:
>>
>> By copying an existing campaign I wanted to *working around* the
>> inability to set by API certain targeting options and certain campaign
>> settings.
>>
>> Thus the suggested method wouldn't work for my objective, if I get it
>> correctly.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 11:52:14 PM UTC+2, Josh Radcliff (AdWords
>> API Team) wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The API does not have specific clone functionality. However, you could
>>> approximate this functionality by issuing a CampaignService.get
>>> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CampaignService#get>
>>>
>>> with all relevant fields in the *Selector*, changing the name of the
>>> returned object, and then passing it back into a CampaignService.mutate
>>> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CampaignService#mutate>
>>> call
>>> with *operator = ADD*. This would only make a "shallow" copy of the
>>> campaign, however. You would have to repeat this process using other
>>> services if you also wanted to clone objects related to the template
>>> campaign, such as ad groups or negative keyword criteria.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Josh, AdWords API Team
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 12:37:53 PM UTC-5, Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (BTW: this functionallity exists in the UI as "copy-paste")
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, November 3, 2014 7:18:46 PM UTC+2, Berry wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to duplicate / clone a whole campaign via API?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to create certain campaigns manually, and then clone each
>>>>> campaign without the need to update the creation code every time the
>>>>> "template" campaign changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> is that possible? and how?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>
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