AddAdGroups Service Operation - Campaign Management

Adds new ad groups to a specified campaign.

Request Elements

The AddAdGroupsRequest object defines the body and header elements of the service operation request. The elements must be in the same order as shown in the Request SOAP.

Note

Unless otherwise noted below, all request elements are required.

Request Body Elements

Element Description Data Type
AdGroups An array of AdGroup objects to add to the specified campaign.

You can add a maximum of 1,000 ad groups in a single call. Each campaign can have up to 20,000 ad groups.
AdGroup array
CampaignId The identifier of the campaign to add the ad groups to. long
ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes Reserved for future use. boolean

Request Header Elements

Element Description Data Type
AuthenticationToken The OAuth access token that represents the credentials of a user who has permissions to Microsoft Advertising accounts.

For more information see Authentication with OAuth.
string
CustomerAccountId The identifier of the ad account that owns or is associated with the entities in the request. This header element must have the same value as the AccountId body element when both are required. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it.

For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.
string
CustomerId The identifier of the manager account (customer) the user is accessing or operating from. A user can have access to multiple manager accounts. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it.

For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.
string
DeveloperToken The developer token used to access the Bing Ads API.

For more information see Get a Developer Token.
string
Password This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials. string
UserName This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials. string

Response Elements

The AddAdGroupsResponse object defines the body and header elements of the service operation response. The elements are returned in the same order as shown in the Response SOAP.

Response Body Elements

Element Description Data Type
AdGroupIds A list of unique system identifiers corresponding to the ad groups that were added.

The list of identifiers corresponds directly to the list of ad groups in the request. Items of the list may be returned as null. For each list index where an ad group was not added, the corresponding element will be null.
long array
InheritedBidStrategyTypes Reserved for future use. string array
PartialErrors An array of BatchError objects that contain details for any request items that were not successful.

The list of errors do not correspond directly to the list of items in the request. The list can be empty if there were no errors, or can include one or more error objects corresponding to each unsuccessful list item in the request.
BatchError array

Response Header Elements

Element Description Data Type
TrackingId The identifier of the log entry that contains the details of the API call. string

Request SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP request. For supported types that you can use with this service operation, see the Request Body Elements reference above.

<s:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13">
    <Action mustUnderstand="1">AddAdGroups</Action>
    <AuthenticationToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</AuthenticationToken>
    <CustomerAccountId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerAccountId>
    <CustomerId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerId>
    <DeveloperToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</DeveloperToken>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <AddAdGroupsRequest xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13">
      <CampaignId>ValueHere</CampaignId>
      <AdGroups i:nil="false">
        <AdGroup>
          <AdRotation i:nil="false">
            <EndDate i:nil="false">ValueHere</EndDate>
            <StartDate i:nil="false">ValueHere</StartDate>
            <Type i:nil="false">ValueHere</Type>
          </AdRotation>
          <AudienceAdsBidAdjustment i:nil="false">ValueHere</AudienceAdsBidAdjustment>
          <BiddingScheme i:nil="false" i:type="-- derived type specified here with the appropriate prefix --">
            <Type i:nil="false">ValueHere</Type>
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            <!--No additional fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to ManualCpvBiddingScheme-->
            <!--No additional fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to ManualCpmBiddingScheme-->
            <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to InheritFromParentBiddingScheme-->
            <InheritedBidStrategyType i:nil="false">ValueHere</InheritedBidStrategyType>
            <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to PercentCpcBiddingScheme-->
            <MaxPercentCpc i:nil="false">ValueHere</MaxPercentCpc>
            <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to CommissionBiddingScheme-->
            <CommissionRate i:nil="false">ValueHere</CommissionRate>
            <!--No additional fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to ManualCpaBiddingScheme-->
            <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to CostPerSaleBiddingScheme-->
            <TargetCostPerSale i:nil="false">ValueHere</TargetCostPerSale>
          </BiddingScheme>
          <CommissionRate i:nil="false">
            <RateAmount i:nil="false">
              <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
            </RateAmount>
          </CommissionRate>
          <CpcBid i:nil="false">
            <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
          </CpcBid>
          <EndDate i:nil="false">
            <Day>ValueHere</Day>
            <Month>ValueHere</Month>
            <Year>ValueHere</Year>
          </EndDate>
          <FinalUrlSuffix i:nil="false">ValueHere</FinalUrlSuffix>
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          <FrequencyCapSettings i:nil="false">
            <FrequencyCapSettings>
              <CapValue>ValueHere</CapValue>
              <TimeGranularity>ValueHere</TimeGranularity>
            </FrequencyCapSettings>
          </FrequencyCapSettings>
          <Id i:nil="false">ValueHere</Id>
          <Language i:nil="false">ValueHere</Language>
          <MultimediaAdsBidAdjustment i:nil="false">ValueHere</MultimediaAdsBidAdjustment>
          <Name i:nil="false">ValueHere</Name>
          <Network i:nil="false">ValueHere</Network>
          <PercentCpcBid i:nil="false">
            <RateAmount i:nil="false">
              <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
            </RateAmount>
          </PercentCpcBid>
          <PrivacyStatus i:nil="false">ValueHere</PrivacyStatus>
          <Settings i:nil="false">
            <Setting i:type="-- derived type specified here with the appropriate prefix --">
              <Type i:nil="false">ValueHere</Type>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to VerifiedTrackingSetting-->
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              </Details>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to DynamicFeedSetting-->
              <FeedId i:nil="false">ValueHere</FeedId>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to TargetSetting-->
              <Details i:nil="false">
                <TargetSettingDetail>
                  <CriterionTypeGroup>ValueHere</CriterionTypeGroup>
                  <TargetAndBid>ValueHere</TargetAndBid>
                </TargetSettingDetail>
              </Details>
              <!--These fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to CoOpSetting-->
              <BidBoostValue i:nil="false">ValueHere</BidBoostValue>
              <BidMaxValue i:nil="false">ValueHere</BidMaxValue>
              <BidOption i:nil="false">ValueHere</BidOption>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to DisclaimerSetting-->
              <DisclaimerAdsEnabled>ValueHere</DisclaimerAdsEnabled>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to HotelSetting-->
              <HotelAdGroupType>ValueHere</HotelAdGroupType>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to ResponsiveSearchAdsSetting-->
              <AutoGeneratedAssetsEnabled i:nil="false">ValueHere</AutoGeneratedAssetsEnabled>
              <!--These fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to PerformanceMaxSetting-->
              <AutoGeneratedImageOptOut i:nil="false">ValueHere</AutoGeneratedImageOptOut>
              <AutoGeneratedTextOptOut i:nil="false">ValueHere</AutoGeneratedTextOptOut>
              <FinalUrlExpansionOptOut>ValueHere</FinalUrlExpansionOptOut>
              <PageFeedIds i:nil="false" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
                <a1:long>ValueHere</a1:long>
              </PageFeedIds>
              <!--This field is applicable if the derived type attribute is set to CallToActionSetting-->
              <AutomatedCallToActionOptOut i:nil="false">ValueHere</AutomatedCallToActionOptOut>
            </Setting>
          </Settings>
          <StartDate i:nil="false">
            <Day>ValueHere</Day>
            <Month>ValueHere</Month>
            <Year>ValueHere</Year>
          </StartDate>
          <Status i:nil="false">ValueHere</Status>
          <TrackingUrlTemplate i:nil="false">ValueHere</TrackingUrlTemplate>
          <UrlCustomParameters i:nil="false">
            <Parameters i:nil="false">
              <CustomParameter>
                <Key i:nil="false">ValueHere</Key>
                <Value i:nil="false">ValueHere</Value>
              </CustomParameter>
            </Parameters>
          </UrlCustomParameters>
          <UseOptimizedTargeting i:nil="false">ValueHere</UseOptimizedTargeting>
          <UsePredictiveTargeting i:nil="false">ValueHere</UsePredictiveTargeting>
          <AdScheduleUseSearcherTimeZone i:nil="false">ValueHere</AdScheduleUseSearcherTimeZone>
          <AdGroupType i:nil="false">ValueHere</AdGroupType>
          <CpvBid i:nil="false">
            <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
          </CpvBid>
          <CpmBid i:nil="false">
            <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
          </CpmBid>
          <McpaBid i:nil="false">
            <Amount i:nil="false">ValueHere</Amount>
          </McpaBid>
        </AdGroup>
      </AdGroups>
      <ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes i:nil="false">ValueHere</ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes>
    </AddAdGroupsRequest>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Response SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP response.

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13">
    <TrackingId d3p1:nil="false" xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">ValueHere</TrackingId>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <AddAdGroupsResponse xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13">
      <AdGroupIds d4p1:nil="false" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a1:long>ValueHere</a1:long>
      </AdGroupIds>
      <InheritedBidStrategyTypes d4p1:nil="false" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a1:string>ValueHere</a1:string>
      </InheritedBidStrategyTypes>
      <PartialErrors d4p1:nil="false" xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <BatchError d4p1:type="-- derived type specified here with the appropriate prefix --">
          <Code>ValueHere</Code>
          <Details d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Details>
          <ErrorCode d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</ErrorCode>
          <FieldPath d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</FieldPath>
          <ForwardCompatibilityMap xmlns:e26="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" d4p1:nil="false">
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              <e26:value d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</e26:value>
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          </ForwardCompatibilityMap>
          <Index>ValueHere</Index>
          <Message d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Message>
          <Type d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Type>
          <!--These fields are applicable if the derived type attribute is set to EditorialError-->
          <Appealable d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Appealable>
          <DisapprovedText d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</DisapprovedText>
          <Location d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Location>
          <PublisherCountry d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</PublisherCountry>
          <ReasonCode>ValueHere</ReasonCode>
        </BatchError>
      </PartialErrors>
    </AddAdGroupsResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Code Syntax

The example syntax can be used with Bing Ads SDKs. See Bing Ads API Code Examples for more examples.

public async Task<AddAdGroupsResponse> AddAdGroupsAsync(
	long campaignId,
	IList<AdGroup> adGroups,
	bool? returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes)
{
	var request = new AddAdGroupsRequest
	{
		CampaignId = campaignId,
		AdGroups = adGroups,
		ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes = returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes
	};

	return (await CampaignManagementService.CallAsync((s, r) => s.AddAdGroupsAsync(r), request));
}
static AddAdGroupsResponse addAdGroups(
	java.lang.Long campaignId,
	ArrayOfAdGroup adGroups,
	boolean returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes) throws RemoteException, Exception
{
	AddAdGroupsRequest request = new AddAdGroupsRequest();

	request.setCampaignId(campaignId);
	request.setAdGroups(adGroups);
	request.setReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes(returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes);

	return CampaignManagementService.getService().addAdGroups(request);
}
static function AddAdGroups(
	$campaignId,
	$adGroups,
	$returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes)
{

	$GLOBALS['Proxy'] = $GLOBALS['CampaignManagementProxy'];

	$request = new AddAdGroupsRequest();

	$request->CampaignId = $campaignId;
	$request->AdGroups = $adGroups;
	$request->ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes = $returnInheritedBidStrategyTypes;

	return $GLOBALS['CampaignManagementProxy']->GetService()->AddAdGroups($request);
}
response=campaignmanagement_service.AddAdGroups(
	CampaignId=CampaignId,
	AdGroups=AdGroups,
	ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes=ReturnInheritedBidStrategyTypes)

Requirements

Service: CampaignManagementService.svc v13
Namespace: https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13