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About "additional settings" in a report

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In Interactive reports, the following two "additional settings" are available for specific purposes:

Access more dimension and metric combinations: This setting resolves a compatibility issue with certain metric and dimension combinations, allowing reports that use them to run.
Access API fields: This setting shows fields primarily used for API-driven reports.

Before enabling these settings, review the following information to understand their function.

Jump to a section of the article:

About the "Access more dimension and metric combinations" setting
About the "Access API fields" setting
Enable an additional setting

About the "Access more dimension and metric combinations" setting

Enabling this setting allows you to run reports that otherwise would not run due to incompatible metrics and dimensions. If the incompatible metrics and dimensions are selected for a report and this setting is disabled, an error message is triggered.

We recommend you only enable this setting when prompted to do so by the error message.

The error message:

May show if the "Total code served count" metric and an incompatible dimension are included in the report.
Lets you know that you can either remove the incompatible fields, or enable this setting to run the report. You can enable the setting directly from the error message or the settings option.

We recommend you leave this setting off, unless it’s required for your report to run. If this setting is enabled when it’s not needed, data for Delivery dimensions may be incomplete. Consequently, you may get a message in your report suggesting that you turn off the setting.

Technical details
Some metric and dimension combinations are incompatible. Specifically, Delivery dimensions (such as Order, Line item, Creative, Advertiser, and Deal) and some high-cardinality dimensions (such as Key-values, Metro, Region, and Targeting) are incompatible with the "Total code served count" metric.

Enabling this setting:

Resolves the compatibility errors, allowing the report to run.
Collapses reservation data into a single row (even if the data would normally show in multiple rows) to provide additional compatibility for high-cardinality and Delivery dimensions. Note that the Delivery dimension data may be incomplete as a result.

For example, if a report includes the "Total code served count" metric and the "Key-values" and "Order" dimensions, an incompatibility error states that the report is invalid. Enabling the setting resolves the error, and the report runs. Any reservation data shows in a single row.

About the "Access API fields" setting

Some metrics and dimensions are intended for use in the API. By default, they’re hidden from view in Interactive reports. If you plan to run reports via the API, you may want to enable this setting to show the available API metrics and dimensions in your report. When shown, these metrics and dimensions are labeled "API" in your report builder.

Although these metrics and dimensions are intended for use in the API, you can choose to manually include them in your Interactive reports.

Note that you can still use these metrics and dimensions via the API if this setting is off in your report.

Enable an additional setting

To enable an additional setting:

Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
Click Reporting, then Interactive reports.
Create a new report, or select an existing report.
In the report, click .
Next to a setting, turn on the switch .
- Access more dimension and metric combinations
  Recommendation: Leave off unless prompted in your report via an error message. Note that you can also enable this setting directly from the related error message.
- Access API fields
  Recommendation: You may want to turn on this setting if you run API reports, or want to view the metrics and dimensions intended for the API.

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