NATS4 API Adtool Categories

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display_payment_history display_payment_summary display_ratio display_reward_category display_reward_order display_reward_purchases display_signup_advanced display_signup_basic display_signup_payvia display_stats display_stats_calendar display_stats_table display_stats_form display_stats_retention display_stats_subscription_details display_top_stats display_timezones dump_data get_first get_period_end get_reward_categories list_billers list_campaigns list_linkcodes list_options list_programs list_sites list_tool_categories list_tours list_xsells rebuild_form rebuild_link rebuild_query reward_points tooltip Common Parameters assign assign_prefix count data_only display_on_assign start tpl NATS Configuration Admin The Configuration Admin Log Admin Activity IP Address Filtering MEMBER_EXPIRE_PAD Fraud Configuration NATS Email Configuration Affiliate Signup Email Affiliate Postback API NATS4 API Add Affiliate Admin Get Adtools Adtool Types Adtool Categories Ping Affiliate Get Campaigns Get 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This function allows you to get a list of available adtool categories. To use this function, you must make a SOAP call with the following parameters:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
xmlns:tns="urn:natsapiadmin_wsdl">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
	<tns:adtool_categories xmlns:tns="urn:natsapiadmin_wsdl">
	</tns:adtool_categories>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

You will get a response similar to :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns="urn:natsapiadmin_wsdl">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
	<ns1:adtool_typesResponse xmlns:ns1="urn:natsapiadmin_wsdl">
		<return xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array" SOAP-ENC:arrayType="tns:Adtool_type[16]">
			<item xsi:type="tns:Adtool_Categories">
				<adtool_type_id xsi:type="xsd:int">1</adtool_type_id>
				<adtool_category_id xsi:type="xsd:int">1</adtool_category_id>
				<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Static Banners</name>
				<description xsi:type="xsd:string">Static Banners</description>
			</item>
			<item xsi:type="tns:Adtool_Categories">
				<adtool_type_id xsi:type="xsd:int">2</adtool_type_id>
				<adtool_category_id xsi:type="xsd:int">2</adtool_category_id>
				<name xsi:type="xsd:string">FHG</name>
				<description xsi:type="xsd:string">Free Hosted Galleries</description>
			</item>
			<item xsi:type="tns:Adtool_Categories">
				<adtool_type_id xsi:type="xsd:int">3</adtool_type_id>
				<adtool_category_id xsi:type="xsd:int">3</adtool_category_id>
				<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Page Ads</name>
				<description xsi:type="xsd:string">Half Page / Full Page Ads</description>
			</item>
			<item xsi:type="tns:Adtool_Categories">
				<adtool_type_id xsi:type="xsd:int">4</adtool_type_id>
				<adtool_category_id xsi:type="xsd:int">3</adtool_category_id>
				<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Content</name>
				<description xsi:type="xsd:string">Downloadable Content</description>
			</item>
		</return>
	</ns1:adtool_typesResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>