Check If Notes Slides Exist

Introduction

When you add speaker notes to a slide, a Notes slide is created in your PowerPoint presentation. The Notes slide can contain text, shapes, etc. The following methods allow you to check whether a Notes slide associated with a regular slide exists.

Notes slide

NotesSlideExists

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/slides/{slideIndex}/notesSlide/exist	GET	Checks whether a Notes slide exists in a presentation saved in a storage.	NotesSlideExists

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The name of a presentation file saved in the storage.
slideIndex	integer	query	true	The 1-based index of a regular slide.
password	string	header	false	The password to open the presentation.
folder	string	query	false	The folder where the presentation file is located.
storage	string	query	false	The storage where the folder is located.

In case of Amazon S3 storage folder path starts with Amazon S3 bucket name.

Examples

Check to see if there is a Notes slide associated with the first regular slide in the document MyPresentation.pptx.

cURL Solution

Request

Get an Access Token

curl POST "https://api.aspose.cloud/connect/token" \
     -d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=MyClientId&client_secret=MyClientSecret" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Check the Notes Slide

curl -X GET "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/slides/1/notesSlide/exist" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"

Response

Response Example

{
  "exists": true
}

SDK Solutions

using System;
using Aspose.Slides.Cloud.Sdk;
using Aspose.Slides.Cloud.Sdk.Model;

class Application
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

        String documentName = "MyPresentation.pptx";
        int slideIndex = 1;

        EntityExists response = slidesApi.NotesSlideExists(documentName, slideIndex);

        Console.WriteLine("Notes slide exists: " + response.Exists);
    }
}

// Example output:
// Notes slide exists: True

Java

import com.aspose.slides.ApiException;
import com.aspose.slides.api.SlidesApi;
import com.aspose.slides.model.EntityExists;

public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

        String documentName = "MyPresentation.pptx";
        int slideIndex = 1;

        EntityExists response = slidesApi.notesSlideExists(documentName, slideIndex, null, null, null);

        System.out.println("Notes slide exists: " + response.isExists());
    }
}

// Example output:
// Notes slide exists: true

PHP

use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\Configuration;
use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\SlidesApi;

$configuration = new Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid("MyClientId");
$configuration->setAppKey("MyClientSecret");

$slidesApi = new SlidesApi(null, $configuration);

$documentName = "MyPresentation.pptx";
$slideIndex = 1;

$response = $slidesApi->notesSlideExists($documentName, $slideIndex);

echo "Notes slide exists: ", $response->getExists();

// Example output:
// Notes slide exists: 1

Ruby

require "aspose_slides_cloud"

include AsposeSlidesCloud

configuration = Configuration.new
configuration.app_sid = "MyClientId"
configuration.app_key = "MyClientSecret"

slides_api = SlidesApi.new(configuration)

document_name = "MyPresentation.pptx"
slide_index = 1

response = slides_api.notes_slide_exists(document_name, slide_index)

print "Notes slide exists: ", response.exists

# Example output:
# Notes slide exists: true

Python

from asposeslidescloud.apis.slides_api import SlidesApi

slides_api = SlidesApi(None, "MyClientId", "MyClientSecret")

document_name = "MyPresentation.pptx"
slide_index = 1

response = slides_api.notes_slide_exists(document_name, slide_index)

print("Notes slide exists:", response.exists)

# Example output:
# Notes slide exists: True

Node.js

const cloud = require("asposeslidescloud");

const slidesApi = new cloud.SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

documentName = "MyPresentation.pptx";
slideIndex = 1;

response = slidesApi.notesSlideExists(documentName, slideIndex).then(response => {
    console.log("Notes slide exists:", response.body.exists);
});

// Example output:
// Notes slide exists: true

C++

#include "asposeslidescloud/api/SlidesApi.h"

using namespace asposeslidescloud::api;

int main()
{
    std::shared_ptr<SlidesApi> slidesApi = std::make_shared<SlidesApi>(L"MyClientId", L"MyClientSecret");

    const wchar_t* documentName = L"MyPresentation.pptx";
    const int slideIndex = 1;

    std::shared_ptr<EntityExists> response = slidesApi->notesSlideExists(documentName, slideIndex).get();

    std::cout << "Notes slide exists: " << response->isExists();
}

// Example output:
// Notes slide exists: 1

Perl

use AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration;
use AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi;

my $config = AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration->new();
$config->{app_sid} = "MyClientId";
$config->{app_key} = "MyClientSecret";

my $slides_api = AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi->new(config => $config);

my %parameters = (name => "MyPresentation.pptx", slide_index => 1);

my $response = $slides_api->notes_slide_exists(%parameters);

print("Notes slide exists: ", $response->{exists});

# Example output:
# Notes slide exists: 1

Swift

NotesSlideExistsOnline

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/slides/{slideIndex}/notesSlide/exist	POST	Checks whether a Notes slide exists in a presentation saved in a local file.	NotesSlideExistsOnline

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
document	file	formData	true	The presentation file.
slideIndex	integer	query	true	The 1-based index of a regular slide.
password	string	header	false	The password to open the presentation.

SDKs

Check Available SDKs to learn how to add an SDK to your project.

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