composePPTXContent

Evaluates the PowerPoint content commands within the specified PPTX presentation. The result of the evaluation will be a copy of the PPTX presentation with whatever modifications the content commands caused.

Besides triggering content command evaluation, composePPTXContent acts a parent command for various commands that modify the higher-level structure of the presentation being composed. These commands are evaluated before the content evaluation occurs.

This command triggers an evaluation process specifically only for PowerPoint content commands, not the older shape tags produced through the Dynamo Office Add-in. Use the composeContent command for composing contents of legacy PPTX templates.

Child commands

mergePPTX
Optional. One or more of these commands may be used to bring slides of other PPTX presentations into the composed presentation.
removeSlide
Optional. One or more of these commands may be used to make slides present in the template presentation to not appear in the composed result.
repeatSlide
Optional. One or more of these commands may be used to produce copies of an existing slide based on the data of a Collection.

Attributes

var
Required	Value type	EL-evaluated
Yes	String	No
Defines the name of the variable placed into the variable context, whose value is the evaluated presentation File.

template
Required	Value type	EL-evaluated
No	File	Yes
Defines the PPTX template whose content is evaluated.

title

Required

Value type

EL-evaluated

No

String

Yes

Defines a title for the composed PPTX presentation.

If undefined, the title of the File defined through template is used as the title.

Examples

Use the composePPTXContent command to produce dynamic PowerPoint output out of PowerPoint templates containing the appropriate content commands. You can load the template from Salesforce to bring it into the variable context as a File, and then give the template to composePPTXContent.

CODE

<load var="ppFile" contentDocumentId="xxxx"><composePPTXContent var="composedPPTX" template="${ppFile}" title="Presentation of Powerful Points">

This command also acts a parent command for various presentation-modifying commands that can alter the structure of the composed result. Combined with logic control commands like if and forEach, it is possible to modify the presentation quite heavily.

CODE

<composePPTXContent var="composedPPTX" template="${ppFile}" title="Presentation of Various Modifications"><removeSlide slide="5"><if test="${!includeSchedulePlan}"><removeSlide slide="2"><repeatSlide value="${items}" var="item" slide="3"><forEach value="${selectedAppendices}" var="appendix"><mergePPTX source="${appendix}" adaptive="${true}">