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Before removing a budget, ensure that no
ENABLED or
PAUSED campaigns
are using it by checking its
reference_count.
If this field is greater than 0, there are ENABLED or PAUSED campaigns still
using the budget. You can retrieve this information by searching for metrics
with campaign_budget as the main resource. Here is the GAQL query for the
reference count of a budget, filtering on its ID:
Once you've determined that a CampaignBudget
is no longer used and can be removed, send a
remove
operation with the resource name of the campaign budget.
When removing a campaign, you're also removing any non-shared budget being
used by that campaign.
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