How to PAUSE a Managed Placement of AdGroup

[K Raza]

Hi Support,

I am using python to build a app for my client.   I want to PAUSE a specific Placement using my code.  How can I do that? There is no example for this 

Here is image,  for example I want to PAUSE latimes.com placement

[K Raza]

I am using google Ads API  v6

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hello,

Unfortunately, we don't have an example on how to pause placements. However, you can use this example as a reference. This example shows how to enable a keyword using AdGroupCriterionService. You will need to modify it to use PAUSED and the Id of your placements.

Cheers,
Anthony

Anthony Google Ads API Team

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[Google Ads API Explorer]

Can I pause placement using CampaignCriterion or AdGroupCriterion service ?

[Google Ads API Explorer]

@anthony,

I did this but not able to pause the placements

$adGroupCriterion = new AdGroupCriterion([

                    'resource_name' => ResourceNames::forAdGroupCriterion(

                        $customerId,

                        $adGroupId,

                        $placementcriterionId

                    ),

                    'status' => AdGroupCriterionStatus::PAUSED

                ]);

                

                $adGroupCriterionOperation = new AdGroupCriterionOperation();

                $adGroupCriterionOperation->setUpdate($adGroupCriterion);

                $adGroupCriterionOperation->setUpdateMask(FieldMasks::allSetFieldsOf($adGroupCriterion));

                // Issues a mutate request to update the ad group criterion.

                $adGroupCriterionServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getAdGroupCriterionServiceClient();

                $response = $adGroupCriterionServiceClient->mutateAdGroupCriteria(

                    $customerId,

                    [$adGroupCriterionOperation]

                );

[K Raza]

I have a python example and that worked for me to pause the placement.

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def pause_placement (client, customer_id, ad_group_id, criterion_id):

    agc_service = client.get_service("AdGroupCriterionService", version="v6")

    ad_group_criterion_operation = client.get_type(

        "AdGroupCriterionOperation", version="v6"

    )

    ad_group_criterion = ad_group_criterion_operation.update

    ad_group_criterion.resource_name = agc_service.ad_group_criteria_path(

        customer_id, ResourceName.format_composite(ad_group_id, criterion_id)

    )

    ad_group_criterion.status = client.get_type(

        "AdGroupCriterionStatusEnum", version="v6"

    ).PAUSED

    

    fm = protobuf_helpers.field_mask(None, ad_group_criterion)

    ad_group_criterion_operation.update_mask.CopyFrom(fm)

    try:

        agc_response = agc_service.mutate_ad_group_criteria(

            customer_id, [ad_group_criterion_operation]

        )

    except google.ads.google_ads.errors.GoogleAdsException as ex:

        print(

            'Request with ID "%s" failed with status "%s" and includes the '

            "following errors:" % (ex.request_id, ex.error.code().name)

        )

        for error in ex.failure.errors:

            print('\tError with message "%s".' % error.message)

            if error.location:

                for field_path_element in error.location.field_path_elements:

                    print("\t\tOn field: %s" % field_path_element.field_name)

        sys.exit(1)

    print("Updated placement status %s." % agc_response.results[0].resource_name)

[Google Ads API Explorer]

Thanks for sharing your worked code.

My PHP code is seems to be same but I am not able to pause the placement? neither giving me any error.

@anthony if you could help?

Thanks,

[Google Ads API Explorer]

I figured out the issue.

Thanks It is worked now.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hello,

Please let me know if you face any other issues.

[K Raza]

Hi @Anthony

I notice that Google Ads Python Library give error on  CENTOS6 with Python 3.8.  It worked ok On Windows.

Here is what I am getting even all is good.

ad_group_criterion.resource_name = agc_service.ad_group_criteria_path(customer_id, ResourceName.format_composite(ad_group_id, criterion_id))

AttributeError: 'AdGroupCriterionServiceClient' object has no attribute 'ad_group_criteria_path'

Any idea?

[K Raza]

This is resolved. v6 have some fixes and my script was using old object.

Sorry for this.