Hi John, The IDs between the systems do not match, but the paths should match *up to level 5*. The Google Product taxonomy has additional levels 6 & 7 that are not supported in AdWords product groups (*ProductPartitions*).
Thanks, Josh, AdWords API Team On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 7:50:13 AM UTC-4, John wrote: > > Can you confirm whether the API provides a mechanism to relate the ID used > in the Google Product taxonomy ( > https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/1705911) to the > DimensionValue used for shopping bidding categories? > > For example, in the updated version of the product taxonomy, the "Cycling" > category has an ID of 1025, whereas the shopping bidding categories > (returned from ConstantDataService.getProductBiddingCategoryData) > identifies the same category as 2282614456774172819. I can see that the > two references can be matched from the path: "Sporting Goods > Outdoor > Recreation > Cycling", but can you confirm whether the reference can be > matched directly from the two IDs? If there is no mechanism available in > the API to do this, can you confirm that the paths used in the product > taxonomy will always match the paths of the shopping bidding categories? > > Regards, > > John > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/63d7d3f2-e0e1-472b-8b4f-20128a53f4c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
