Thanks Sai for the clarity. This seems to be a significant problem that will prevent many users from completely transitioning from the Adwords API to the Google Ads API, I'm certainly going to continue using the ManagedCustomerService from the Adwords API for this functionality.
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 6:58:11 AM UTC+11, googleadsapi-forumadvisor wrote: > > Hello, > > Unfortunately, It is not possible to get the descriptive name of all the > accounts in a single API call. You have to iterate through all the > customers to get the descriptive_name. To keep the data normalized we are > holding only one resource responsible for a data field. > > Regards, > Sai Teja, Google Ads API Team > > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > Also find us on our blog and discussion group: > http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/ > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > > Was your question answered? Please rate your experience with us by taking > a short survey. > If not -- reply to this email and tell us what else we can do to help. > > Take Survey > <https://support.google.com/google-ads/contact/survey_transactional?caseid=7-9951000025233&hl=en&ctx=1> > > Also find us on our blog and discussion group: > http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/ > On 03/05/19 00:06:31 [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Is there a way to get the descriptive_names without making a separate call > for each customer_client? I have approximately 200 client accounts under a > manager account, and that's a lot of API calls to get the names of them. > > On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 5:52:40 AM UTC+11, > googleadsapi-forumadvisor wrote: > > Hello Anand, > > Descriptive name for the customer is not available in the customer_client > <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/fields/customer_client> > resource. > You have to make another API call to the customer > <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/fields/customer> resource. > You could use the available customer fields in the customer > <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/fields/customer> resource > and can pass each customer Id to get the respective details of that > customer. Below is the sample search query to fetch the customer details > via customer resource. > > Query in DotNet format given below: > Query = @"SELECT > customer.resource_name, > customer.descriptive_name, > customer.id, > customer.test_account, > customer.tracking_url_template FROM customer", > CustomerId = customerId.ToString() //Pass the customer > Id that you found on the resource name earlier. > > Please let me know if you have any further questions. > > Regards, > Sai Teja, Google Ads API Team > > > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > Also find us on our blog and discussion group: > http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/ > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > > Was your question answered? 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