AdWords API Re: Linking Existing Accounts

I think this is a great idea and it would be even better if we could do
the linking using the API.

Dmitry Trunikov wrote:
> Hi ALL!
> This is great and very useful feature.
> But I think that just invite message triggering is not sufficient. Why
> we can't automatically link user's account if we supply in call
> parameters user's private credentials such as password? If user gave me
> his password this act can be considered as "Creating a MCC relation
> involves starting a commercial relationship". Am I right?
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry Trunikov
>
> Patrick Chanezon wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the detailed use case Dmitry. Good idea to extend the
> > discussion.
> > I CC the Forum because I'd like to get other developer's feedback
> > about this requirement, to determine wether they would find such a
> > feature useful.
> >
> > P@
> >
> > On 12/28/05, *Dmitry Dimov* <dmitry@swivel.com
> > <mailto:dmitry@swivel.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Patrick,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. Let me be more specific. I'm not looking
> > for a completely automatic link creation--that would indeed cause
> > the problems you mention. All I'm looking for is the ability to
> > automatically trigger the invite message, after the user supplies
> > the account number. As is the case now, the user would still need
> > to approve the link from within the AdWords account. The process
> > is still manual from the user's perspective: it would still work
> > only and only if they supply their account number to begin with,
> > and then approve the link. I do not believe this would lead to
> > link creation spam. The business use case for this is as follows:
> > our perspective users would choose to let us manage their existing
> > AdWords account via the MMC. They would still need see the Google
> > invite message with all the caveats and risks of letting another
> > party manage their account. A simple API that would be the
> > equivalent of initiating the linking from within MMC would be
> > sufficient. Any chance something like this could be added?
> >
> > Also, would you mind if this thread was posted on the Google
> > Group, so that others can chime in on the need for this API?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dmitry
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Patrick Chanezon [mailto:chanezon@gmail.com
> > <mailto:chanezon@gmail.com>]
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:59 PM
> > *To:* Dmitry
> > *Subject:* Re: AdWords API Linking Existing Accounts
> >
> > No sorry there is no plan to expose that functionality.
> > Creating a MCC relation involves starting a commercial
> > relationship, where the linked account must agree for the link to
> > be created, so automating link creation does not seem to be a
> > priority item, and even may be a bad idea altogether (we'd have to
> > manage link creation spam, and it may incommodate adwords users).
> >
> > P@
> >
> > On 12/7/05, *Dmitry* <dmitry@swivel.com
> > <mailto:dmitry@swivel.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Patrick,
> >
> > Do you plan to implement this action in the API? Given the latest
> > addition to the MMC where clients can be added with API-only
> > access,
> > this feature would make much sense.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Dmitry
> >
> > Patrick Chanezon wrote:
> >> No, sorry, this action is not exposed in the Adwords API.
> >>
> >> P@
> >>
> >> On 7/27/05, mouieman <mouieman@hotmail.com
> > <mailto:mouieman@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There are several existing accounts that we need to add to
> > our Adwords
> >> > account so that they can be managed by us. When we login to our
> >> > Adwords account on Google, under the My Client Center tab
> > it has a link
> >> > named "Link existing account" that allows us to manage existing
> >> > accounts. We need to do this every day to capture new
> > accounts. Is
> >> > there a way to perform this action using the XML api?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> -- Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist
> > http://blog.chanezon.com/
> > http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist
> > http://blog.chanezon.com/
> > http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/