Well, to answer my own question, it appears that there is a Perth city and
a Perth neighbourhood. The latter is 9060896 and AdWords doesn't think it's
worth reporting on. Once I started using the right number I started to get
results.
-- Bruce.
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 12:39:49 pm UTC+8 axtens wrote:
> The following selector was exported from a running C# application using
> JsonConvert.SerializeObject. As far I can see, there are no problems with
> it. However, I am consistently receiving:
> "AdWordsApiException: Exception of type
> 'Google.Api.Ads.AdWords.Lib.AdWordsApiException' was thrown. \r\n\r\nError
> returned when a <a href='SearchParameter'>SearchParameter</a> doesn't match
> the <a href='IdeaType'>IdeaType</a> specified in the <a
> href='TargetingIdeaSelector'>TargetingIdeaSelector</a> or is otherwise
> invalid. Error trigger usually contains the parameter name, and error
> details contain a more detailed explanation.. (Error:
> TargetingIdeaError.INVALID_SEARCH_PARAMETERS, FieldPath:
> selector.searchParameters[0].locations[0], Trigger:
> LocationSearchParameter)\r\n\r\n"
>
> I have noticed others having issues with their CCID not being properly
> specified. I'm looking into that also, though one would think that a
> trigger of "LocationSearchParameter" would indicate an error with the
> location search parameter.
>
> Should `SearchParameterType` be something other than null?
>
> Regarding the location search parameter, when I first encountered this
> problem I was only specifying the id. I have added the type and
> locationName in the pursuit of a solution but to no avail.
>
> -- Bruce
> ```
> {
> "searchParameters": [{
> "queries": ["fatigue driving", "driving fatigue", "driving
> tired", "driver fatigue male", "driver fatigue female"],
> "SearchParameterType": null
> }, {
> "languages": [{
> "code": null,
> "name": null,
> "id": 1000,
> "idSpecified": true,
> "typeSpecified": false,
> "CriterionType": null
> }
> ],
> "SearchParameterType": null
> }, {
> "networkSetting": {
> "targetGoogleSearch": true,
> "targetGoogleSearchSpecified": true,
> "targetSearchNetwork": false,
> "targetSearchNetworkSpecified": true,
> "targetContentNetwork": false,
> "targetContentNetworkSpecified": true,
> "targetPartnerSearchNetwork": false,
> "targetPartnerSearchNetworkSpecified": true
> },
> "SearchParameterType": null
> }, {
> "locations": [{
> "locationName": "Perth,Western Australia,Australia",
> "displayType": null,
> "targetingStatusSpecified": false,
> "parentLocations": null,
> "id": 9060896,
> "idSpecified": true,
> "type": 12,
> "typeSpecified": true,
> "CriterionType": null
> }
> ],
> "SearchParameterType": null
> }
> ],
> "ideaType": 0,
> "ideaTypeSpecified": true,
> "requestType": 1,
> "requestTypeSpecified": true,
> "requestedAttributeTypes": [5, 6, 7, 2, 8, 1],
> "paging": {
> "startIndex": 0,
> "startIndexSpecified": true,
> "numberResults": 500,
> "numberResultsSpecified": true
> },
> "localeCode": null,
> "currencyCode": null
> }
> ```
>
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