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[DanisHack]

I m trying to create a VIEW using new management api, but i m getting a badrequest error with msg, "The tracking type of the profile and its parent property should be consistent". Please throw some light on this.

[rakyll]

Could you send a snippet please?

[DanisHack]

function CreateView(AccountId, WebProperty, siteUrl, callback){
var params= {'accountId': AccountId, 'webPropertyId':WebProperty};
var body= { "name": "DashBoard1", "websiteUrl":siteUrl,
"type":"WEB", "siteSearchQueryParameters":"ga_search_query",
"siteSearchCategoryParameters":"ga_search_type"
};
gapi.mainclient.analytics.management.profiles.insert(params, body)
.withAuthClient(gapi.client)
.execute(function(err, result){
if(err){
callback(err, null);
}
else if(result){
var viewid = result.id;
callback(null, viewid);
}
});
}

[rakyll]

Is your parent web property app-based? Could you get the web property details and tell me what's the websiteUrl? If the parent is not a Web tracking property, you can't create a Web tracking profile underneath.

[DanisHack]

my webproperty details-----

{ id: 'UA-460104-10',
kind: 'analytics#webproperty',
selfLink: 'https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/460**104/webproperties/UA-460**104-10',
accountId: '460104',
internalWebPropertyId: '77_**200',
name: 'website_Data',
level: 'STANDARD',
profileCount: 0,
industryVertical: 'SHOPPING',
permissions: { effective: [ 'COLLABORATE', 'EDIT', 'MANAGE_USERS', 'READ_AND_ANALYZE' ] },
created: '2013-11-29T11:02:37.910Z',
updated: '2013-11-29T11:02:37.910Z',
parentLink:
{ type: 'analytics#account',
href: 'https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/460__104' },
childLink:
{ type: 'analytics#profiles',
href: 'https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/460__104/webproperties/UA-460_*104-10/profiles' } }

[DanisHack]

Above is a response i get, when i create a new webproperty using api. No my webproperty is WEB based and websiteUrl is http://ot.com (for testing purpose). i suppose above property is Web tracking property. To me error msg is unclear. Thanks

[DanisHack]

ERROR:

{ errors:
[ { domain: 'global',
reason: 'badRequest',
message: 'The tracking type of the profile and its parent property should be consistent.' } ],
code: 400,
message: 'The tracking type of the profile and its parent property should be consistent.' }

[rakyll]

You should be able to see websiteUrl: "http://ot.com" on the JSON payload above if it's a Web tracking property. It looks like there is an issue with the API, rather than the client library particularly. Could you email the Management API's mailing list [1] to get in touch with the Analytics guys? Btw, it should be reproducible on the API Explorer [2].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/google-analytics-management-api
[2] https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/analytics/v3/

[DanisHack]

yeah i was expecting websiteUrl: "http://ot.com" in my response. but i didn't get. i'll look into the issue. I follow this group, so will try to dig deep.

Thanks a lot, rakyll