Hi Vishal, Why is this the case? I feel that this field is incredibly misleading and also entirely useless. What is the scenario when returning the current status of an AdGroup or Campaign on a historical report useful to people? Not a rhetorical question, I'm actually wondering what the use case when a user would intentionally request current statuses on a historical dataset.
Overall as a customer of AdWords and API developer it feels like Google purposely makes tracking budget, bid, and status changes as difficult as possible to deter automated strategies. Whether or not that's your prerogative the "status" data you're returning crosses the line of making things difficult vs purposely feeding bad data to your clients. On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:10:11 PM UTC-7, Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team) wrote: > > Hi, > > Aw-Reporting tool uses AdWords Reports internally to sync your reporting > data with your local database. However, the reporting call would return the > current state of your account for attribute > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#field-attributes> > fields > such as CampaignStatus and Amount i.e. if you add CampaignStatus field to > your report, this would return the status of the campaign at the time of > report generation. If you plan to use historic changes in campaign data, I > would suggest taking a snapshot of your local DB / table on a regular basis > and saving that copy separately. > > Regarding your other question, you can use CampaignService.get > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/selectorfields#v201702-CampaignService> > to > fetch the AdvertisingChannelType of each campaign in your AdGroup > Performance Report. > > Regards, > Vishal, AdWords API Team > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/82762a4d-5f53-41d8-8012-ab66469f2503%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
