Ad group status set to 'Deleted' for active but expired ad group. Bug or by design?

Question

Hi,

Using v6 of the adCenter APIs, calling GetAdGroupsByIds or GetAdGroupsByCampaignId, returns expired ad groups with a status of 'Deleted'. Is this expected or an issue with the APIs?

I would expect an expired ad group to keep whatever status it had when it expired. As adCenter doesn't allow you to modify a deleted ad group, but does allow updates to expired ones (after the end date has been set to a future date), we have the need to distinguish between expired and deleted ones. This is not possible with the current behavior as one never knows if the ad group is truly deleted or just expired.

Would be great if someone could let me know if this is intentional behavior or not.

Thanks in advance
Hans

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HK

Answer 1

Yeah, an additional "Expired" status would make sense I think. I can already hear users complain about status not matching up in our in-house app vs in AdCenter.

Answer 2

Yes, Deleted means Expired. This may change in a future release.

Jeff Dillon, API Support