6 messages in com.googlegroups.adwords-apiRe: problem using updateCreatives() f...
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briguy06 Mar 2007 17:20 
AdWords API Advisor07 Mar 2007 15:08 
dreadjr09 Mar 2007 10:45 
JezC10 Mar 2007 08:14 
dreadjr10 Mar 2007 12:20 
PacificDVDs10 Mar 2007 16:27 
Subject:Re: problem using updateCreatives() function
From:PacificDVDs (t.@pacificdvds.com)
Date:03/10/2007 04:27:38 PM
List:com.googlegroups.adwords-api

This makes no sense.

I think you should have named the call as "updateCreativeStatus" instead of "updateCreative" if the only thing that you can update is a status, and you should not require caller to pass in anything other than the new status.

PacificDVDs

On Mar 10, 8:15 am, "JezC" <jezc@gmail.com> wrote:

Technically, the only thing about a creative that can be changed is the status.

If you modify anything in the copy, or the URLs, you delete the existing creative and cause a new and different creative to be generated.

So, you can change a creative to be paused, or deleted, or if paused, you can resume it... but that's pretty much all the changes you can make to an existing creative.

This doesn't make v6, 7 or 8 broken. It's just the model of the creative. Understand the model and the problem goes away. :)

Cheers, JeremyC.