Hi Matt,
Your theory sounds right to me. Prior to v201710, the AdWords API prevented
users from creating a shared set in a manager account because the AdWords
API did not perform some additional internal steps required for
manager-level sets. At that time, the workaround was to create the
Thanks Josh.
Likely I created the manager level negative keyword list in the UI, then
populated it through the API. We started using the manager negative
keyword list in May 2017. By the sounds of it we may not have been able
to create it through the API itself until 201710? Once created
Hi Matt,
I'll definitely get back to you once I have more info on the change you
mentioned. However, I'd recommend holding off on abandoning manager-level
shared sets. In fact, the v201710 release added support for manager-level
shared sets
Hi Josh,
Thank you for following up. I look forward to hearing more details when
available. I'm going to proceed with our API level update tomorrow and
get some code ready as a contingency if we're no longer able to use the
MCC's neg. keyword shared set for a managed customer account's
Hi Matt,
You've uncovered a mystery! :) I just confirmed that the validation did
indeed change recently, but I'm not sure why. I'm following up with the
engineer who made the change and will get back to you. Thanks for catching
this and reporting it to us!
Cheers,
Josh, AdWords API Team
On
Hi,
I'm working through the validation of our code base (PHP) from 201705 to
201802, and I noticed a change in the 201708 migration guide regarding the
SharedSetService mutate regarding creating shared set of Negative keywords
in a manager account:
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