Is it still the case that If a report is made via UI that It wont be
possible to access with the API ?
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 7:16:07 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote:
>
> You probably know this, but if the reports were originally defined in the
> UI, they will not be available via the API. Apart from that, I can't offer
> any help but I'd recommend using ad hoc reports instead of the
> ReportDefinitionService (which will be deprecated anyway).
>
> Cheers
>
> On Monday, July 16, 2012 8:48:00 PM UTC+2, road11 wrote:
>>
>> Using the C# v201109_1 code samples as a model, I'm trying to download
>> one of our many previously defined and named reports. Here's the code that
>> Google gave us to get our report definitions that isn't working (assuming a
>> valid AdwordsUser object)...
>>
>>
>> ReportDefinitionService reportDefinitionService =
>> (ReportDefinitionService) user.GetService(
>> AdWordsService.v201109_1.ReportDefinitionService);
>>
>> // Create the selector.
>> ReportDefinitionSelector selector = new ReportDefinitionSelector();
>>
>> try {
>> // Get all report definitions.
>> ReportDefinitionPage page = reportDefinitionService.get(selector);
>>
>> // Display report definitions.
>> if (page != null && page.entries != null && page.entries.Length > 0)
>> {
>> foreach (ReportDefinition reportDefinition in page.entries) {
>> writer.WriteLine("ReportDefinition with name \"{0}\" and id
>> \"{1}\" was found.",
>> reportDefinition.reportName, reportDefinition.id);
>> }
>> } else {
>> writer.WriteLine("No report definitions were found.");
>> }
>>
>> } catch (Exception ex) {
>> throw new System.ApplicationException("Failed to retrieve report
>> definitions.", ex);
>> }
>>
>>
>> ...however, this code keeps telling me that page.entries is null. We've got
>> at least 1400 named reports defined in this Google Adwords account. How is
>> it possible that this code can find none of them? I thought the selector
>> might be the problem, but the ReportDefinitionSelector doesn't even have a
>> fields property, so that can't be the issue.
>>
>>
>> I would be most grateful if someone could post a (working) C# example of how
>> to get a list of available reports and how to download a single named report
>> from an Adwords account.
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
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