Hi, Josh.

We were also hit by this, as we use reports like this to download 
structure, and it unfortunately has caused us a lot of trouble due to our 
system thinking that all of the negative keywords in all our clients' 
campaigns were gone.  I just want to point out for the future that changing 
something to behave as intended without announcing it in advance is 
probably a fine thing if it's only been released a couple days and no one's 
using it yet.  In this case, it's literally been years that this report has 
behaved this way, so changing its behavior to what was intended when first 
released years ago without advance notice really causes problems -- whether 
documented or not, actual behavior becomes expected behavior for a public 
API when it behaves in a certain way for a long time.  In this case, what 
would have been a couple minutes to fix the code had we known in advance 
has caused us additional hours of cleanup.

Thanks,
Greg

On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 2:47:00 PM UTC-5, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API 
Team) wrote:
>
> Hi Giles,
>
> That change went into effect around July 10th. There wasn't an 
> announcement because we were making the reports behave as intended -- that 
> is, they were supposed to exclude negative keywords unless explicitly 
> requested.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh, AdWords API Team
>
> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 11:56:10 AM UTC-4, Giles Bodger wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Anthony, 
>>
>> can you tell me from what date that happened? (we will need to re sync 
>> some data fro that date), and also was there any notification anywhere that 
>> we missed ?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:23:41 PM UTC+1, Anthony Madrigal wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Giles,
>>>
>>> The recent change to the Keywords Performance Report was made so that 
>>> the report would be more consistent with the user interface. Like you said, 
>>> you can use the predicate *isNegative IN [true, false] *to include 
>>> negative keywords in your report. 
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Anthony
>>> AdWords API Team
>>>
>>

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