Recent update: 2008-3-21
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iSerg at 2008-3-7
Hi,Now we are receiving the errors at the time of get campaigns operations (and other gets)The URL is https://beta6.api.idss.msn.com/v2/CampaignManagement/CampaignManagement.asmx?wsdlThe Request is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope ...
Hi, I was wondering if AdCenter has plans to support Single Sign on? If so what would be the time frame? Thx Gautam
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Ludo-R at 2008-3-5
Hi,There is a code snippet on the blog explaining how to get the countries ids. http://adcenterdev.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!40C96A663056EEA8!109.entryIt seems straight forward if using C#. But I really have a hard time to figure out how to retrieve those information with JAVA.What to do with ...
Hi,Currently, I am implementing adcenter API in PHP using nusoap tool kit. I already had my sandbox environment activated. Here's my problem.<?phprequire_once('nusoap.php');$parameters=array("APIFlags"=>1);//msnapi.wsdl is a copy of ...
Here is the response for my request to generate performance report:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...
Hello,When are we going to get the status property on the AdCenterCampaign object? I can pause and resume a campaign using the UI. It's very anoying that we can't see this using the API and that we cant pause/resume a campaign. Simulating campaign pausing, by pausing the orders is an ugly ...
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Ludo-R at 2008-2-27
Hi, Could it be better if there is consistency between objects' methods which return the same type of information? For instance (language used: JAVA). AdCenterAccount.getAccountId() returns an Integer while AdCenterCampaign.getCampaignId() returns an int. Thanks.
When I call CampaignManagement.GetCampaigns(..) and reference to v3 wsdls, I catch this error: "There is an error in XML document (1, 552)."If I change all the references to v2, it's smooth sailing.The context of the call itself is some of the very first I wrote and has worked ...
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jlipps at 2008-2-25
When I call AddCampaigns with what appears to be valid and sensible soap XML data, I get the following error code: -199999 at Index 0. Has anyone encountered this before?
Hello,When are we going to get the status property on the AdCenterCampaign object? I can pause and resume a campaign using the UI. It's very anoying that we can't see this using the API and that we cant pause/resume a campaign. Simulating campaign pausing, by pausing the orders is an ugly ...
Hello Microsoft,I set an order's MSNDsitributionSite to UnitedStates (via API). When Iretrieve the order (via API), I see the MSNDistributionSite field isproperly set. When I look at the order in the UI, "Target the locationof your customers" is set to "Allow all customers to ...
Glad to see there is an adcenter API. Looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into this. Is there a developer key required? Any newbie docs that get my head around. Anything at all to get started? Oh, and does this work for the UK adcenter? Any help would be well received! ...
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jlipps at 2008-2-22
Hello,In the documentation, StartDate and EndDate (for AdCenterOrders) are said to be: "constants from the system-provided DateTime enumeration"Unfortunately I'm not using .Net, but PHP. How can I ensure that I'm sending correctly-formatted datetime strings? Does anyone know the ...
The following are the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) documents used for the Microsoft adCenter API.Production WSDLs:V4 (released ...
Is there a reason why when you add an order to a campaign the OrderStartDate, must be the (day you give it)+1.e.g.DateTime.Today.AddDays(1)DateTime.Today, throws an invalid start date error.I have noticed this in the reporting also, but this error was corrected there, that is the date you give ...
Hi,Currently, I am implementing adcenter API in PHP using nusoap tool kit. I already had my sandbox environment activated. Here's my problem.<?phprequire_once('nusoap.php');$parameters=array("APIFlags"=>1);//msnapi.wsdl is a copy of ...
What if something doesn't pass editorial process? How can i get that error? Also does this happen in realtime or is this a human process?
Hello,The original 3.51 release notes incorrectly used AdCenterCampaign.MonthlyBudgetAmount as the name of the AdCenterCampaign.MonthlyBudgetAmt property. (This property was known as AdCenterCampagin.BudgetAmt prior to release 3.51.)An updated Help file (dated 10/26/2006) has been posted to ...
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Ludo-R at 2008-2-16
Hej, Can I retrieve the campaigns (ArrayOfAdCenterCampaign in Java) for an inactive account? I tested that and it does not work for the only inactive account I have. Thanks.
When I call CampaignManagement.GetCampaigns(..) and reference to v3 wsdls, I catch this error: "There is an error in XML document (1, 552)."If I change all the references to v2, it's smooth sailing.The context of the call itself is some of the very first I wrote and has worked ...
Hey Guys Just wanna know.. What is the quota limit for accessing the production version of the API? is there a limit? and if yes, is it monthly/ daily? lemme know
Hi,I tried to create a campaign and add an Order to it. The CampaignManagement.AddOrders() API accepts a Campaign ID and Order array. Yet post the call being made, I find that the Order[x}.OrderId field is not set by this callI could find the OrderId from the EntityResultType which is an array ...
Hi,I am trying to get a Keyword Performance Report for a custom date range that has the results aggregated for the entered range but I do not seem to be able to get it. If I do not set the ReportAggregation property I am getting an exception about the date range being over 40 days. this is ...
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Ludo-R at 2008-2-15
Hi,I was wondering whether there is a delay that I have to take into consideration when I download report from the API to be sure that the values I download are stable.What I mean is: does the msn staff go through the values (clicks for instance) to adjust them (false clicks to be removed...) ...
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Ludo-R at 2008-2-14
Hi there,I am wondering how I can iterate such types of objects. I need to get all my accounts and for each of those accounts, retrieve all the campaigns and ask for a keyword performance report.It is nice to have get an ArrayOfAdCenterAccount but I don't see any method to get the size of this ...
Hey GuysThis might be a bit of a newbie question, that was asked a long time ago on these forums.I am trying to pull a Keyword Performance report using the PHP-NuSOAP library to interact with the MSN-AdCenter APII am posting a set of SOAP requests-response, along with the SOAP fault I got.SOAP ...
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MarcS at 2008-2-13
We just got a notice that the production API is being upgraded to change some names of things such as BudgetAmt to BudgetAmount (but the new help file says MonthlyBudgetAmount !).The email says this is happening "Friday October 20, 2007". I assume this is a typo and it means 2006, ...
I have a question for the MSN Adcenter support. I have had access to the AdCenter API for some time now, but havent worked on it in a while. Yesterday, when I tried accessing the SandBox using my API username, and password, it sends me to a page with a message talking about an activation link. ...
Here is the response for my request to generate performance report:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...
Hi there,Ive been asked to send back the raw soap I am getting from the adcenter API. Im using VS 2005......is there an easy way of doing this? When I catch the exception as a SOAPexception I cant find a property to access the XML that was received from the ...
I've submitted a SOAP request that worked last week, but when I run it today (and yesterday), I get error code -400063, The report data for the requested date range is not yet available. However, I know that the report data is available, because I got it last week. I've included my SOAP ...
Hi there,I wonder could someone please paste the resulting xml form a keyword performance report. I have tried to set up a campaign, order and a kew keywords to generate my own reports....but they keep coming out blank!If someone could post the xml returned....or even an .xls file returned from ...
Hi there,I have setup 2 campaigns through the GUI. Their status reads "submitted". Both contain orders who's status also reads "submitted". However there is no dummy click/impression data getting added each day. The data the campaigns was suppost to start on has passed? Is ...
is there a way/method to fetch perticular campaign/order name based on the campaignId/orderId ?
I am now using v3 for the wsdl files.The code I was using to download the budget reports were working find with version 2, however, there seems to be an issue with them now. Even though I am specifying the daterange to be today:...ReportDateRange = ...
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Ludo-R at 2008-2-7
Hi,Does someone use the adcenter API from a JAVA application? I am stuck at the first step - connection to the API - since I have no class named Administration after generating the JAVA classes from the WSDL files (using the Axis2 WSDL2Java plugin for eclipse)! I only have a AdmimistrationStub ...
Hi there, Anyone know of any good components (free) for unzipping zip files for .net. I am told reports are zipped by default now so im getting nothing but junk back in my report files. Cheers, Justin.
Hi, We are experiencing mentioned below "SSLHandshakeException" since long time.We are running the code on production environment.Java Version: jdk1.5 and operating system Windows XPException:--javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path ...
Prior to this week, I was able to retrieve reports without any problem. After getting the API back up today, I noticed that the data being returned from the report that I requested was coming back all jumbled. I believe it's coming back as a binary file and not text as it was previously. I am ...
Where i can find the new adcenter api documentation and domain model? Thanks SEMuser
Hello Microsoft,The latest adCenterAPI documentation says this about error -100723:Duplicate ad. -100723 This error is returned when a user attempts to add an ad that is identical to an existing ad already associated with an order.The same documentation says this about error -100732:Duplicate ...
Following the production upgrade this weekend, I have been getting the "Method Not Allowed" error when using the AdCenter API. This happens on any call. We are using Java/Apache Axis implementation on v2. The url we are using is https://adcenterapi.microsoft.com.
Hi Does API calls have timelimit that it assigns to each request. I was looking in documentation but can't find information this issue. If we have about 100,000 keywords that we want to update prices on or upload, will the system be able to handle it in one request. If anyone know if API calls ...
Hello List,I have a question on the sandbox UI link found in the connect.microsoft.com page. Upon following the Microsoft adCenter Sandbox UI link, I must authenticate, it does not recognize my production user/pwd.The final page states that a $5.00 charge will be placed on my credit card for ...
Let meshare my experience with the security set up I struggled withinitially. Platform: Linuxenvironment: J2EEI kept getting the errorjavax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building ...
We are getting this error since saturday night:javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failedOur client is linux/axis.Anybody else seeing ...
Hi.... When you first connect to the sandbox is there any dummy accounts or data in there so you can start messing around straight away? Have no come across it in the documentation yet.... Cheers, Justin
Hello, I see that I can only add Ads to an Order - how do I match up the Ads to specific keywords, and how is AdCenterKeywordAdAssociation used? Thank you.
hi there, Im just starting out. Is there any source code available in vb for the fetching reports? Cheers
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iSerg at 2008-2-2
Hi, I have looked at the OrderItem (keyword) and I could see the following issue: MSN Keyword doesn't contain destination URL. Is there any possibility to every keyword of an order has unique URL? Serg