Copy a Layout Slide

Introduction

With Aspose.Slides Cloud, you can copy a layout slide from one PowerPoint presentation to another. The following method allows you to specify file names of the presentations and an index of the layout slide to be copied.

CopyLayoutSlide

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/layoutSlides	POST	Copies a layout slide from one presentation to another.	CopyLayoutSlide

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The name of a destination presentation file.
cloneFrom	string	query	true	The name of a source presentation file.
cloneFromPosition	integer	query	true	The index of the layout slide.
cloneFromPassword	string	header	false	The password to open the source presentation.
cloneFromStorage	string	query	false	The name of the storage containing the source presentation.
password	string	header	false	The password to open the destination presentation.
folder	string	query	false	The path to the folder containing the destination presentation.
storage	string	query	false	The name of the storage contaning the `folder`.

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

The related master slide is automatically copied from the source presentation to the destination presentation.

Examples

Copy the third layout slide from the presentation MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx to the document MyFolder/MyPresentation.pptx. Both presentations have been saved to the default storage.

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"

Copy the Layout Slide

curl -X POST "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/layoutSlides?cloneFrom=MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx&cloneFromPosition=3&folder=MyFolder" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken" \
     -H "Content-Length: 0"

Response

Response Example

{
    "name": "Section Header",
    "type": "SectionHeader",
    "masterSlide": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/masterSlides/2?folder=MyFolder",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "dependingSlides": [],
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/layoutSlides/2?folder=MyFolder",
        "relation": "self"
    }
}

SDK Solutions

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-dotnet

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

class Application
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var slidesApi = new SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

        // Copy the third layout slide.
        var layoutSlide = slidesApi.CopyLayoutSlide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, folder: "MyFolder");

        // Print the layout slide name.
        Console.WriteLine(layoutSlide.Name);
    }
}

Java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-java

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

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

        // Copy the third layout slide.
        LayoutSlide layoutSlide = slidesApi.copyLayoutSlide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, null, null, null, "MyFolder", null);

        // Print the layout slide name.
        System.out.println(layoutSlide.getName());
    }
}

PHP

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-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);

// Copy the third layout slide.
$layoutSlide = $slidesApi->copyLayoutSlide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, null, null, null, "MyFolder");

// Print the layout slide name.
echo $layoutSlide->getName();

Ruby

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-ruby

require "aspose_slides_cloud"

include AsposeSlidesCloud

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

slides_api = AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi.new(configuration)

# Copy the third layout slide.
layout_slide = slides_api.copy_layout_slide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, nil, nil, nil, "MyFolder")

# Print the layout slide name.
print layout_slide.name

Python

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-python

import asposeslidescloud

from asposeslidescloud.apis.slides_api import SlidesApi

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

# Copy the third layout slide.
layout_slide = slides_api.copy_layout_slide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, None, None, None, "MyFolder")

# Print the layout slide name.
print(layout_slide.name)

Node.js

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-nodejs

const cloud = require("asposeslidescloud");

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

// Copy the third layout slide.
slidesApi.copyLayoutSlide("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, null, null, null, "MyFolder").then(layoutSlide => {
    // Print the layout slide name.
    console.log(layoutSlide.body.name);
});

C++

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-cpp

#include "asposeslidescloud/api/SlidesApi.h"

using namespace asposeslidescloud::api;

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

    // Copy the third layout slide.
    auto layoutSlide = slidesApi->copyLayoutSlide(L"MyPresentation.pptx", L"MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", 3, L"", L"", L"", L"MyFolder").get();

    // Print the layout slide name.
    std::wcout << layoutSlide->getName();

    return 0;
}

Perl

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-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);

# Copy the third layout slide.
my %parameters = (name => "MyPresentation.pptx", clone_from => "MyTemplates/SalesTemplate.pptx", clone_from_position => 3, folder => "MyFolder");
my $layout_slide = $slides_api->copy_layout_slide(%parameters);

# Print the layout slide name.
print $layout_slide->{name};

Swift

SDKs

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