Community Discussion

Hello,

I've been unsuccessfully trying to update the audience targeting of a campaign to make it include a custom audience. The steps I've taken follow:

1. I've successfully created a campaign through the Taboola API and set aside its id.

2. I've successfully created a new conversion through the Taboola UI. To be more specific:
   - I reached the "Tracking" section
   - I clicked "New Conversion"
   - I set the "Type" field as "Event", the "Based on" field as "Custom" and filled all the remaining fields.
   I managed to set aside its id extracting it from the created conversion page's URL.
   I know that this is not probably the proper way to accomplish the task, but was just meant as a temporary workaround while waiting for another question (https://developers.taboola.com/backstage-api/discuss/61d5df7ae026df01f3680a81) to be answered.

3. I've tried to update the targeting of the campaign by issuing a POST request to

https://backstage.taboola.com/backstage/api/1.0/my_account_id/campaigns/the_campaign_id/targeting/custom_audience

with this JSON body:

{
"collection": [{
"collection": [the_conversion_id],
"type": "INCLUDE"
}]
}

The API responds with an error:

{
"http_status": 400,
"message": "Collection contains invalid rule ids for targeting: [1]",
"offending_field": "custom_audience_targeting.collection[0].collection",
"message_code": "campaign.unip.retargeting.rules.invalid.ids"
}

Am I doing something wrong?

I supposed that creating a new custom conversion through the UI and creating a new custom audience rule through the API (https://developers.taboola.com/backstage-api/reference#create-a-custom-audience-rule) were interchangeable operations. Perhaps this is not the way it works but I could not make it clear reading the documentation and/or using the UI.

Thanks is advance for your support.