A parsed copy of the field path. For example, the field path "operations[1].operand"
corresponds to this list: {FieldPathElement(field = "operations", index = 1),
FieldPathElement(field = "operand", index = null)}.
trigger
xsd:string
The data that caused the error.
errorString
xsd:string
A simple string representation of the error and reason.
The XML of the creative template definition is malformed and cannot be parsed.
VARIABLE_DUPLICATE_UNIQUE_NAME
A creative template has multiple variables with the same uniqueName.
VARIABLE_INVALID_UNIQUE_NAME
The creative template contains a variable with invalid characters. Valid
characters are letters, numbers, spaces, forward slashes, dashes,
and underscores.
LIST_CHOICE_DUPLICATE_VALUE
Multiple choices for a CreativeTemplateListStringVariable have the same value.
LIST_CHOICE_NEEDS_DEFAULT
The choices for a CreativeTemplateListStringVariable do not contain the
default value.
LIST_CHOICES_EMPTY
There are no choices specified for the list variable.
NO_TARGET_PLATFORMS
No target platform is assigned to a creative template.
MULTIPLE_TARGET_PLATFORMS
More than one target platform is assigned to a single creative template.
UNRECOGNIZED_PLACEHOLDER
The formatter contains a placeholder which is not defined as a variable.
PLACEHOLDERS_NOT_IN_FORMATTER
There are variables defined which are not being used in the formatter.
MISSING_INTERSTITIAL_MACRO
The creative template is interstitial, but the formatter doesn't contain
an interstitial macro.
UNKNOWN
The value returned if the actual value is not exposed by the requested API version.
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