# type CreativeTemplateError (v202602)

**Service** [CreativeService](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/CreativeService.CreativeTemplateError) [CreativeSetService](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/CreativeSetService.CreativeTemplateError) [CreativeTemplateService](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/CreativeTemplateService.CreativeTemplateError) [LineItemCreativeAssociationService](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/LineItemCreativeAssociationService.CreativeTemplateError) **NativeStyleService** **Inheritance** [ApiError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.ApiError) ▼ [ApiVersionError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.ApiVersionError) [AuthenticationError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.AuthenticationError) [CollectionSizeError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.CollectionSizeError) [CommonError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.CommonError) **CreativeTemplateError** [CustomTargetingError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.CustomTargetingError) [EntityChildrenLimitReachedE...](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.EntityChildrenLimitReachedError "EntityChildrenLimitReachedError") [FeatureError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.FeatureError) [ImageError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.ImageError) [InternalApiError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.InternalApiError) [InvalidUrlError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.InvalidUrlError) [InventoryTargetingError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.InventoryTargetingError) [NativeStyleError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.NativeStyleError) [NotNullError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.NotNullError) [NullError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.NullError) [ParseError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.ParseError) [PermissionError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.PermissionError) [PublisherQueryLanguageConte...](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.PublisherQueryLanguageContextError "PublisherQueryLanguageContextError") [PublisherQueryLanguageSynta...](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.PublisherQueryLanguageSyntaxError "PublisherQueryLanguageSyntaxError") [QuotaError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.QuotaError) [RequiredCollectionError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.RequiredCollectionError) [RequiredError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.RequiredError) [RequiredSizeError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.RequiredSizeError) [ServerError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.ServerError) [StatementError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.StatementError) [StringFormatError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.StringFormatError) [StringLengthError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.StringLengthError) [TeamError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.TeamError) [UniqueError](https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.UniqueError)

A catch-all error that lists all generic errors associated with CreativeTemplate.

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Namespace
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    `https://www.google.com/apis/ads/publisher/v202602`

| ## Field ||
|---|---|
| **`ApiError` (inherited)** ||
| ### `fieldPath` | ` xsd:string` The OGNL field path to identify cause of error. |
| ### `fieldPathElements` | ` https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.FieldPathElement[]` 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. |
| **`CreativeTemplateError`** ||
| ### `reason` | ` https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/api/reference/v202602/NativeStyleService.CreativeTemplateError.Reason ` The error reason represented by an enum. *** ** * ** *** **Enumerations** `CANNOT_PARSE_CREATIVE_TEMPLATE` :   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. <br /> |