Adding image holders {{name}} to Google Slides

Questions
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:bullseye: What is your goal?

Hi folks. I used ot be able to use a text box to add an image holder to google slides so I can use automation to saerch for {{img1}} etc - now what ever I do I cant seem to find out how to get it working and showing up in make.com - any ideas? Thanks in advance

:thinking: What is the problem & what have you tried?

I have treied alt text, image file names.

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In Make, Google Slides only works with real image objects, not text boxes. Insert an image on the slide, set its Alt text title to something like {{img1}}, then save and refresh the template in Make so it can pick it up.

3

Thanks for the reply Moid. I have set the Alt text title and it still doesnt pick it up in Make after refreshing it

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4

Hey there,

I’ve completely given up on trying to use tags for images in templates and switched to Make an API call module and replacing a placeholder image instead.

5

thanks for that. It worked a few months ago but somethings changed. the issue with that in my scenario is that prior to that we replicate a google slide and make a new one - not sure if i can tag in an api call to that.

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Yeah, you can create a new slide from a template, then make an API call to change the placeholder image on the slide with the one you want.

7

Thanks Stoyan - new to me. I assume I would use page object id like in the image but how would i pick up the {{img}} -

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any pointers would be awesome and thanks so much for your help

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You will need to find the object ID from the page you just created and then replace it with the image you want.

The body was something like:

requests.append({
                'replaceImage': {
                    'imageObjectId': slide_image_id,
                    'imageReplaceMethod': 'CENTER_INSIDE',
                    'url': f'https://drive.google.com/thumbnail?sz=w1000&id={drive_file["id"]}'
                }
            })

But don;t copy paste this one, check the API documentation for the correct syntax.

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thanks for that - is that google slide make an api module? if so how where would I find the documents api? thanks so much in advance

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Yes and here. You can also find plenty of tutorials online, you can adapt any that use curl to the make an api call module.