Managing User Access Invitations

As a Google Ads admin, you can manage user access invitations to a Google Ads account.

Invite users

You can send an email invitation to a new user as part of managing access to a Google Ads account. This is done by creating a new CustomerUserAccessInvitation using the MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation method of the CustomerUserAccessInvitationService. The email invitation needs to be manually accepted by the user who received the invitation. The invitation can also be accepted by the user using an alternate email address. It can take up to 24 hours for the status to change from pending once the invitation is accepted.

This code snippet shows how to send an invitation:

Java

// Constructs an access invitation.
CustomerUserAccessInvitation invitation =
    CustomerUserAccessInvitation.newBuilder()
        .setEmailAddress(emailAddress)
        .setAccessRole(accessRole)
        .build();

// Constructs an operation to send the invitation.
CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation operation =
    CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation.newBuilder().setCreate(invitation).build();

// Creates a CustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient.
try (CustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient client =
    googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createCustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient()) {
  // Issues the request.
  MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationResponse response =
      client.mutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(String.valueOf(customerId), operation);

  // Prints some information about the result.
  System.out.printf(
      "Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = "
          + "%d to email address = '%s' and access role = '%s'. The invitation resource "
          + "name is '%s'.%n",
      customerId, emailAddress, accessRole, response.getResult().getResourceName());
}InviteUserWithAccessRole.java

C#

MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest invitationRequest =
    new MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest()
    {
        CustomerId = customerId.ToString(),
        Operation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation()
        {
            Create = new CustomerUserAccessInvitation()
            {
                EmailAddress = emailAddress,
                AccessRole = accessRole
            },
        }
    };
try
{
    var response = service.MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(invitationRequest);

    Console.WriteLine("Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = " +
        "{0} to email address = {1} and access role = {2}. The invitation resource " +
        "name is {3}.", customerId, emailAddress, accessRole,
        response.Result.ResourceName);
}
catch (GoogleAdsException e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
    Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
    Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
    Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
    throw;
}InviteUserWithAccessRole.cs

PHP

// Creates a customer user access invitation.
$customerUserAccessInvitation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitation([
    'email_address' =>  $emailAddress,
    'access_role' => AccessRole::value($accessRole)
]);

// Creates a customer user access invitation operation.
$customerUserAccessInvitationOperation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation();
$customerUserAccessInvitationOperation->setCreate($customerUserAccessInvitation);

// Issues a mutate request to send the customer user access invitation and prints its
// information.
$customerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient =
    $googleAdsClient->getCustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient();
$response = $customerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient->mutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(
    MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest::build(
        $customerId,
        $customerUserAccessInvitationOperation
    )
);
printf(
    "Customer user access invitation with resource name '%s' was sent from customer "
    . "ID %d to email address '%s' with access role '%s'.%s",
    $response->getResult()->getResourceName(),
    $customerId,
    $emailAddress,
    $accessRole,
    PHP_EOL
);InviteUserWithAccessRole.php

Python

invitation_operation = client.get_type(
    "CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation"
)
invitation = invitation_operation.create
invitation.email_address = email_address
invitation.access_role = client.enums.AccessRoleEnum[access_role].value

response = service.mutate_customer_user_access_invitation(
    customer_id=customer_id, operation=invitation_operation
)
print(
    "Customer user access invitation was sent for "
    f"customer ID: '{customer_id}', "
    f"email address {email_address}, and "
    f"access role {access_role}. The invitation resource name is: "
    f"{response.result.resource_name}"
)invite_user_with_access_role.py

Ruby

operation = client.operation.create_resource.customer_user_access_invitation do |inv|
  inv.email_address = email_address
  inv.access_role = access_role
end

# Issues a mutate request to get the response.
response = client.service.customer_user_access_invitation.mutate_customer_user_access_invitation(
  customer_id: customer_id,
  operation: operation,
)

# Prints out information of the created invitation.
puts "Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = #{customer_id} " \
  "email address = '#{email_address}', " \
  "access role = '#{access_role}'."invite_user_with_access_role.rb

Perl

sub invite_user_with_access_role {
  my ($api_client, $customer_id, $email_address, $access_role) = @_;

  # Create the user access invitation.
  my $user_access_invitation =
    Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Resources::CustomerUserAccessInvitation->new({
      emailAddress => $email_address,
      accessRole   => $access_role
    });

  # Create the user access invitation operation.
  my $invitation_operation =
    Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Services::CustomerUserAccessInvitationService::CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation
    ->new({create => $user_access_invitation});

  # Send the user access invitation.
  my $invitation_response =
    $api_client->CustomerUserAccessInvitationService()->mutate({
      customerId => $customer_id,
      operation  => $invitation_operation
    });

  printf "Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = %d " .
    "to email address = '%s' and access role = '%s'. " .
    "The invitation resource name is '%s'.\n",
    $customer_id, $email_address, $access_role,
    $invitation_response->{result}{resourceName};

  return 1;
}invite_user_with_access_role.pl

Revoke invitations

You can revoke an invitation by removing a CustomerUserAccessInvitation using the MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation method of the CustomerUserAccessInvitationService.

Retrieve user invitations

You can retrieve the list of pending user invitations by building a Google Ads Query Language statement to query all the CustomerUserAccessInvitation entities associated with a customer ID. Here is a typical query:

SELECT
    customer_user_access_invitation.invitation_id,
    customer_user_access_invitation.email_address,
    customer_user_access_invitation.access_role,
    customer_user_access_invitation.invitation_status,
    customer_user_access_invitation.creation_date_time
FROM
    customer_user_access_invitation

You can add additional filtering conditions to retrieve subsets of invitations. For example, a common use case is to retrieve the list of pending user invitations. This can be achieved by filtering for customer_user_access_invitation.invitation_status = PENDING:

Managing user access

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