Hi,

while migrating from the Adwords API to the Ads API we stumbled on an 
issue. In the Adwords API the CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT used to be a 
single attribution report, see 
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting#single_and_multiple_attribution
 
. This means that we could simply get the CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT for 
all criteria types and aggregate on account, campaign or ad group level to 
get the overall account, campaign or ad group performance (i.e. overall 
clicks, impressions, conversions etc.).

On the Ads API, the replacement for the CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT is the 
criteria_view which turned into a multiple attribution data source, see 
https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/migration/reports#attribution 
. This means even if we try to retrieve for each criteria type its 
performance via the criteria_view (as described here 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/adwords-api/JSvsPy9MYYY/C4KP1kn7BgAJ ), we 
can't replicate the feature from the Adwords API to determine overall 
account, ad group or campaign performance based on the criteria performance 
data only - due to multiple attribution, we'd count KPI values several 
times, leading to wrong results.

I wonder how an overall account, campaign or ad group performance can be 
aggregated from criteria performance data retrieved from the Ads API - so 
something similar to how it worked with single attribution 
CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT on the Adwords API. Not being able to simply 
aggregate criteria performance is quite impractical and limits flexibility 
a lot. I wonder what the best solution (if even possible at all) for this 
problem is on the Ads API.

Thanks,

Robert

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