# Adding image holders {{name}} to Google Slides **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** google-slides\ **Created:** [November 26, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369 "2025-11-26T08:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Guy3](https://community.make.com/u/Guy3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/1 "2025-11-26T08:42:04Z")
### 🎯 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](http://make.com) - any ideas? Thanks in advance ### 🤔 What is the problem & what have you tried? I have treied alt text, image file names. ---
**Author:** ![Moid\_shaikh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/moid_shaikh/32/83698_2.png) [@Moid\_shaikh](https://community.make.com/u/Moid_shaikh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/2 "2025-11-26T09:59:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Guy3](https://community.make.com/u/Guy3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/3 "2025-11-26T10:53:14Z")
> [@Moid\_shaikh](#): > > Alt text title Thanks for the reply Moid. I have set the Alt text title and it still doesnt pick it up in Make after refreshing it ![Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 11.52.00](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/7/5/752411aefa7877a78eb359c0a9c40aa1dbe1d623.png) ![Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 11.53.34](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/c/8/c801e16df9244cb842e351f9682b0d39b7fd24ca.png) ---
**Author:** ![Stoyan\_Vatov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/4 "2025-11-26T11:02:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Guy3](https://community.make.com/u/Guy3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/5 "2025-11-26T11:27:42Z")
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. ![Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 12.27.26](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/7/1/71bb7f639ca824095be23f6ee188add0ae4d765d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Stoyan\_Vatov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/6 "2025-11-26T11:52:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Guy3](https://community.make.com/u/Guy3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/7 "2025-11-26T12:12:31Z")
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}} - ![Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 13.11.47](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/2/d/2d385cda2baaee96fb33c78aa69a477b1e12d44a.png) any pointers would be awesome and thanks so much for your help ---
**Author:** ![Stoyan\_Vatov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/8 "2025-11-26T12:17:07Z")
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: ```auto 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. ---
**Author:** ![Guy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Guy3](https://community.make.com/u/Guy3)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/9 "2025-11-27T08:37:14Z")
> [@Stoyan\_Vatov](#): > > ```auto > requests.append({ > 'replaceImage': { > 'imageObjectId': slide_image_id, > 'imageReplaceMethod': 'CENTER_INSIDE', > 'url': f'https://drive.google.com/thumbnail?sz=w1000&id={drive_file["id"]}' > } > }) > > ``` 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 ---
**Author:** ![Stoyan\_Vatov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/10 "2025-11-27T11:28:53Z")
Yes and [here](https://developers.google.com/workspace/slides/api/reference/rest/v1/presentations/request). You can also find plenty of tutorials online, you can adapt any that use curl to the make an api call module. ---
**Author:** ![Make\_Bot](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/make_bot/32/14661_2.png) [@Make\_Bot](https://community.make.com/u/Make_Bot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/adding-image-holders-name-to-google-slides/97369/11 "2026-02-25T08:42:04Z")