AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder
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Builder for
ProductCategory
objects.
Methods:
build()
Builds the product category. Returns a
ProductCategoryOperation that corresponds
to the creation of the
ProductCategory.
Return values:
withBid(bid)
Specifies the bid of the product category. If this is unspecified, will
use the bid of the parent product group.
Arguments:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| bid |
double |
The bid. |
Return values:
withName(productCategoryName)
Specifies the name of the new product category. If the name is unspecified
before calling 'build', the category will fail to build.
Arguments:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| productCategoryName |
String |
The name to specify for the new product
category. |
Return values:
withName(productCategoryName, optionalLanguageCode)
Specifies the name of the new product category. If the name is unspecified
before calling 'build', the category will fail to build.
Arguments:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| productCategoryName |
String |
The name to specify for the new product
category. |
| optionalLanguageCode |
String |
Optional locale to be used for
localising the product bidding category names. |
Return values:
withValue(value)
Specifies the value of the product category.
Arguments:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| value |
String |
The value. |
Return values:
withValue(value, optionalLanguageCode)
Arguments:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| value |
String |
|
| optionalLanguageCode |
String |
Optional locale to be used for
localising the product bidding category names. If unspecified, the
language code defaults to "en-US". |
Return values:
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Last updated 2025-08-25 UTC.
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Returns a [ProductCategoryOperation](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategoryoperation) that corresponds to the creation of the [ProductCategory](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategory).\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryOperation](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategoryoperation) | The ProductCategoryOperation. |\n\n`withBid(bid)`\n--------------\n\nSpecifies the bid of the product category. If this is unspecified, will use the bid of the parent product group.\n\n### Arguments:\n\n| Name | Type | Description |\n|------|----------|-------------|\n| bid | `double` | The bid. |\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategorybuilder) | The ProductCategoryBuilder with the specified bid. |\n\n`withName(productCategoryName)`\n-------------------------------\n\nSpecifies the name of the new product category. If the name is unspecified before calling 'build', the category will fail to build.\n\n### Arguments:\n\n| Name | Type | Description |\n|---------------------|----------|---------------------------------------------------|\n| productCategoryName | `String` | The name to specify for the new product category. |\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategorybuilder) | Product category builder. |\n\n`withName(productCategoryName, optionalLanguageCode)`\n-----------------------------------------------------\n\nSpecifies the name of the new product category. If the name is unspecified before calling 'build', the category will fail to build.\n\n### Arguments:\n\n| Name | Type | Description |\n|----------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| productCategoryName | `String` | The name to specify for the new product category. |\n| optionalLanguageCode | `String` | **Optional**locale to be used for localising the product bidding category names.**** |\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategorybuilder) | Product category builder. |\n\n`withValue(value)`\n------------------\n\nSpecifies the value of the product category.\n\n### Arguments:\n\n| Name | Type | Description |\n|-------|----------|-------------|\n| value | `String` | The value. |\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategorybuilder) | The ProductCategoryBuilder with the specified value. |\n\n`withValue(value, optionalLanguageCode)`\n----------------------------------------\n\n### Arguments:\n\n| Name | Type | Description |\n|----------------------|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| value | `String` | |\n| optionalLanguageCode | `String` | **Optional**locale to be used for localising the product bidding category names. If unspecified, the language code defaults to \"en-US\".**** |\n\n### Return values:\n\n| Type | Description |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|\n| [AdsApp.ProductCategoryBuilder](/google-ads/scripts/docs/reference/adsapp/adsapp_productcategorybuilder) | |"]]
