How to get ad slot by slot name

Question

I'm using DFP to show ads on a web page. Is there any way to refer to particular ad slot by name? e.g. googletag.getSlotByName('abc') My intension is to refresh ads in particular slots.

Answer 1

Yes. The pubads.defineSlot method returns a reference to the slot. This reference can be saved in a variable so you can use it later to refresh it. This would be an example:

googletag.cmd.push(function() {
    var slotABC = googletag.defineSlot("/12345678/SLotABC", [728, 90],
    "div-gpt-ad-1327312723268-0").addService(googletag.pubads());
    googletag.enableServices();
    googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1327312723268-0");

    //Then you can refer to it and refresh it like this:
    googletag.pubads().refresh([slotABC]);
})

More info: here