AdWords API Re: changing ONLY the maxCPC of a keyword

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:44:11PM -0800, Rajiv M wrote:
> I'm not good enough at reading WSDL files to understand if the
> Criterion Service makes a distinction between a blank string from the
> destination URL and a null or omitted value. The verbiage suggests
> that if the value is unset (null, not blank), the destination URL will
> be left alone. If that is true, you wouldn't require the
> getAllCriteria() step; you could simply populate an array of Criterion
> objects with the ID and Ad Group IDs, max CPC, and pass it to
> updateCriteria() and get the desired result.
>
> Can someone verify or refute this?

Yes, I can actually:

http://tinyurl.com/awmgl
(originally: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/7707566ccc30773/084ec8b284fe692f?lnk=st&q=adwords+api+empty+destination+url&rnum=5&fwc=1)

Well at least that's for the deprecated KeywordService (which we're
still using). It may have been fixed in the CriterionService.

Rich.

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