Sometimes SubmitOrderForApproval fails:
Server was unable to process request. > |-100595|-1|Please check the order start date. It should be set to today or later.|
This happens if an order is created with the current day as the start date but not submitted on the same day. Could SubmitOrderForApproval fix this automatically (perhaps as an option)?
Hope this helps
Jeff Dillon, Microsoft adCenter API Technical Support
I'd go one step further and say MSN should just remove the entire need to submit the order for approval, the system should be able to figure it out.
Thanks, I agree with you but it will take us some time to get there...
In the spirit of transparency, let me just say that we discussed this recently as part of designing the next version of API (v5).
Theoretically, we wouldn't have this API. Just like the system knows to run editorial verification when changes are being done to a live order (e.g. keywords or ads are added or changed) -- without the user telling us explicitly to run editorial checks -- we could do the same for a new order.
But practically, our editorial system is not ready for that quite yet. We need the user to give us this hint as a performance optimization, when they're done adding ads and keywords to the order and are ready for editorial process.
HTH and hope to improve this functionality in the future...
Shai
once we have called the SubmitOrderForApproval method, we have no simple way to get the status of an order and check if it is still "Draft".
We need to call GetOrders to get all orders of a given campaign and loop through all orders until we find the one we want to retrieve the status.
How about a GetOrderById method? I don't think it would be too complicated to implement on your end and it will make things much easier for us!
Thanks.
This has been a common request for the API. I think you will be seeing improvements in this very area in upcoming versions of the API. We have been seeing updated versions every few months.
Jeff Dillon, Microsoft adCenter API Technical Support
