Applying Filters
Filters are a key element of effective Search and Social management. Using filters, you can: Narrow down the data that's visible in the grid for day-to-day management Built out reports, alerts, and even Dashboards Troubleshoot keywords and campaigns that may need your attention And apply multiple filters to the same column for added granularity Type...
Buttons In The Grid
Understanding the Action Buttons that are available on the Grid will allow you to manage and make changes to your objects quickly, and easily. Action Buttons Above the Grid you’ll notice a number of buttons that allow you to take action in the grid – we call these Action Buttons. These buttons differ somewhat between Marin and Marin Search, so we'l...
Custom Columns
Custom Columns allow you to create a new column based on your own definition, using the metrics that are available in Marin to customize metrics to your precise specifications. For example, if you have a metric that is unique to your business, you can input the metric's precise formula as a Custom Column, making it available for use in the grid, rep...
Dashboards
Marin's Dashboards give you quick access to the data you use most frequently. Think of the Dashboard as your personal command center, with metrics, data, charts, and more, right at your fingertips, customized to meet your unique business needs. For example, you may want to immediately see the keywords that have had a significant increase in clicks, ...
Devices
Introduction Marin has added more comprehensive reporting on device performance, making it easier to understand the performance of a specific device across all of your objects, and opening up new optimization insights. This feature makes device reporting available at all levels of the hierarchy -- the full Marin Client Account, publisher, publisher ...
History Reporting
The History Reporting feature in Marin is a handy (and fast) way to access performance data for any of your objects. Even better, History Reporting offers you a quick and easy way to troubleshoot issues, identify trends, break down data by day, and more. How To Access History Reporting The History Tab You can access at-a-glance oversight of all of y...
Marin Engine
Introduction Marin Engine powers Marin's newest and most advanced grids and enables new campaign types, more data, more flexible reporting, and enhanced processing for scalability. Now, our teams have been hard at work updating the Marin Engine infrastructure to deliver a powerful experience for advertisers. Want to learn more about the Marin Engine...
Tabs Are Slow Or Do Not Load
What Is The Issue? You may notice that certain tabs within the platform, particularly the main tabs such as Dimensions, Keywords and Campaigns, are occasionally slow to load or perhaps do not load at all. For example, you may click into a tab and see the Processing… message and a loading icon indefinitely or longer than expected. What Causes The Iss...
Saved Views
Introduction The platform's grid is a great way to create customized views, but there may be times when you want to switch between these views quickly. That's where Saved Views come in handy. Marin has been designed from the ground up to streamline your workflows. With this in mind, we've created the Saved Views feature to make it easier to use, m...
Scheduled Actions
Introduction The Scheduled Actions feature enables you to pause or resume campaigns, groups, or ads at a specified date and time in the future. This is useful for making changes in advance for delivery to publishers, allowing you to prepare for upcoming promotional or seasonal changes instead of having to push them during off-hours. For example, Sch...
The Activity Log
Introduction The platform's Activity Log gives you an instant overview of your account and all tasks that are either queued or have already been actioned. The Activity Log is available from any screen in the platform, and it's sure to become a central part of your day-to-day workflow. From here, you can manage tasks – including Posting, Pausing an...
The Calendar Range
Introduction With a calendar view spanning 3 months, convenient date selection and comparison presets, and simple double-click date selection, the Calendar Range makes it easy to filter your grid and compare your marketing metrics. How To Use The Calendar To select a date range, click once on the beginning and end dates you'd like to include (in eit...
The Clients Tab
The Clients Tab is a grid in Marin that allows you to see important high-level data about all of your Marin Client Accounts in a single place, without having to click into each account individually. From the Clients tab, you can: See important account details such as time zone and currency See high-level data associated with each Marin Client Accou...
The Column Selector
Introduction The Column Selector (formerly known as the View Builder) allows you to customize any main grid to display only the data that you need, when you need it. You're able to add or remove any of the columns in the grid, as well as re-order them in a way that makes sense for you and your business. Even better, you can now search for the specif...
The Grid
Introduction The main tabs within the platform feature a workspace known as the grid. The grid is unique to Marin and allows you to effectively manage your campaign data all in one place. The best part? You can completely customize the grid to meet your needs with filtering, sorting, and full date range control. Column Selector The grid allows you t...
The 'More' Menu And 'Jump To' Navigation
Introduction The 'More' menu in Marin can be used to access a variety of details related to a specific object as well as to quickly navigate Marin. To view the More menu, simply hover over an object until the 'Three Dots' icon appears, then click to view the available options in the More menu. Note: This feature is unique to the Marin platform and ...
Unique ID Column Overview
Introduction The Unique ID column is found in both the Keywords and Creatives tabs. To bring it into your view: Click on the View Builder. Select Advanced under Columns in the left-hand menu. Select the checkbox next to Unique ID. How Is The Unique ID Column Populated? The column is populated only for keywords and creatives generated in the platform...
View Builder Column Definitions And Descriptions For Keywords And Campaigns
Introduction From the main Keywords tab, in the upper-right of the grid, you'll see the View Builder link. From here you can add or remove a variety of columns to or from the grid for quick reference. 'Settings' View Builder Columns For Keywords The following are accessible from the Settings section of the left-hand View Builder menu. Name Source De...
Wildcards In The Grid Overview
Introduction The search bar matches only the words in the search term. To expand your search, you can use wildcards as described below. Wildcards Adding a ? to your search term will look for the search term and exactly one additional character for every ?, but it will exclude exact matches of the original term. In the results below, the search for '...
"Error Posting Item To Publisher - Check Activity Log For Details"
What Is The Error? In the Publishers, Campaigns, Groups, Keywords and Creatives tabs, you may see items displaying a Sync error. These objects will have a red triangle icon next to them. Hovering over the alert will display the error message: Error posting item to publisher – check activity log for details How To Fix It This error message indicate...
"No Lines Re" Or "No Lines Read" After Multi-Editing
What Is The Issue? When filtering on any grid in the platform for a text string featuring non-standard text characters (such as ê, Ä, ß, á, Ñ, ®), then attempting to multi-edit the results using the All items on all pages option, you may encounter the following error message: No lines re This error message will appear in the downloaded file from t...
“Row Was Updated Or Deleted By Another Transaction”
What Is The Issue? When attempting to post changes to the publisher from the Activity Log, you may encounter the following error message: Error: Row was updated or deleted by another transaction (or unsaved-value mapping was incorrect)What causes the issue? This error message will occur when two operations try to edit the same object at the same t...
An Error File Downloaded From Activity Log Is Blank
What Is The Issue? You may encounter a job within the Activity Log which has a status of: Error - to be resent. When downloading the file attached to this job (by clicking the File link within the Description column), you may discover that it is blank and contains no data. Because the file is blank, you may think there is no way to get more infor...
Conversion Type Does Not Show Up In View Builder
Introduction Issue: One of the individual conversion types does not show up in the View Builder > Conversion Types tab. When Does This Occur? This occurs when choosing the columns to include in the grid via View Builder. After clicking View Builder and then selecting the Conversion Types tab, the desired individual conversion type does not appear...
Custom Column Formula Not Calculating Correctly
What Is The Issue? When creating a Custom Column, if you include Total Revenue or Total Conversions in a Custom Column and the setting for the Total Conversion type is set to both Date of Click and Date of Conversions, the Custom Column will only use Total Date of Conversion data and not Total Date of Click data. This will happen even if you select ...
Custom Dashboard Widgets Not Loading
What Is The Issue? When using the platform’s custom dashboard widgets feature, you may encounter an issue whereby your widgets do not properly load in the platform. These widgets are visible via the platform’s dashboard, accessible by navigating to the Home tab. In such a case, you will see the frame for each widget on the dashboard, but the message...
Diagnosing Custom Column Errors
What Is The Issue? You can create and edit Custom Columns by clicking the Admin link in the upper right, then selecting the Custom Columns sub-tab. When actually adding or editing these columns, you may encounter the following error message alongside a red warning triangle icon: Unable to parse formula definition What Causes The Issue? This error ...
New Objects Do Not Appear In The Platform
What Is The Issue? You may find that newly-added objects will not appear within the platform’s Grid. This issue tends to occur when your Grid view includes metric columns for these new objects. What Causes The Issue? This problem is caused by new objects that have zero metrics associated with them. When the columns for these metrics are included in ...
The 'Unique ID' Column Is Not Populating For Google Objects
What Is The Issue? When using the Unique ID column in the grid (by adding it using the View Builder), you may encounter an issue whereby the column is not populated with data. What Causes The Issue? This issue occurs because, following Google's Upgraded URLs, objects created in Google Ads will not have tracking parameters automatically appended via...
Totals In The Grid Do Not Match The Sum Of The Values
What Is The Issue? You may notice that the totals displayed in the Conversions column within the Channels tab (or other tabs) do not accurately reflect the sum total of each individual value. What Causes The Issue? This problem is most often caused by a time zone discrepancy in your publisher or campaign settings. The standard setting for the platfo...
Undoing Or Reversing Changes Made In Marin
Introduction There may be occasions when you make some changes within the platform, but soon after decide that you'd like to reverse those changes. Or, you may make changes accidentally which you'd then like to reverse. For example, you might want to use a bulk file to pause some creatives and activate a few others. However, you end up pausing all t...