Delete Shapes from a Slide

Introduction

With Aspose.Slides Cloud, you can easily delete shapes from a PowerPoint presentation. The following methods allow you to delete shapes at specified indices or all shapes at once from a slide. The methods return information about the remaining shapes.

DeleteShape

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/slides/{slideIndex}/shapes/{shapeIndex}	DELETE	Deletes a shape from a presentation slide.	DeleteShape

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The name of a presentation file.
slideIndex	integer	path	true	The 1-based index of the slide contaning the shapes.
shapeIndex	integer	path	true	The 1-based index of the shape to delete.
password	string	header	false	The password to open the presentation.
folder	string	query	false	The path to the folder containing the presentation.
storage	string	query	false	The name of the storage contaning the `folder`.
subShape	string	query	false	Sub-shape path (e.g. “3”, “3/shapes/2”)

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

Examples

MyFolder/MyPresentation.pptx document contains three shapes on the first slide. Delete the second shape.

cURL Solution

Request

Get an Access Token

curl -X 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"

Delete the Shape

curl -X DELETE "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/slides/1/shapes/2?folder=MyFolder" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"

Response

Response Example

{
    "shapesLinks": [
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/slides/1/shapes/1?folder=MyFolder",
            "relation": "self",
            "slideIndex": 1
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/slides/1/shapes/2?folder=MyFolder",
            "relation": "self",
            "slideIndex": 1
        }
    ],
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/slides/1/shapes?folder=MyFolder",
        "relation": "self",
        "slideIndex": 1
    }
}

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");

        // Delete the second shape from the first slide.
        var remainingShapes = slidesApi.DeleteShape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, null, "MyFolder");

        // Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
        foreach (var shape in remainingShapes.ShapesLinks)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(shape.Href);
        }
    }
}

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");

        // Delete the second shape from the first slide.
        Shapes remainingShapes = slidesApi.deleteShape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, null, "MyFolder", null, null);

        // Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
        for (ResourceUri shape : remainingShapes.getShapesLinks()) {
            System.out.println(shape.getHref());
        }
    }
}

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);

// Delete the second shape from the first slide.
$remainingShapes = $slidesApi->deleteShape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, null, "MyFolder");

// Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
foreach ($remainingShapes->getShapesLinks() as $shape) {
    echo $shape->getHref(), "\n";
}

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

slides_api = SlidesApi.new(configuration)

# Delete the second shape from the first slide.
remaining_shapes = slides_api.delete_shape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, nil, "MyFolder")

# Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
for shape in remaining_shapes.shapes_links
    puts shape.href
end

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")

# Delete the second shape from the first slide.
remaining_shapes = slides_api.delete_shape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, None, "MyFolder")

# Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
for shape in remaining_shapes.shapes_links:
    print(shape.href)

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");

// Delete the second shape from the first slide.
slidesApi.deleteShape("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, null, "MyFolder").then(remainingShapes => {
    // Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
    remainingShapes.body.shapesLinks.forEach(shape => {
        console.log(shape.href);
    });
});

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");

    // Delete the second shape from the first slide.
    auto remainingShapes = slidesApi->deleteShape(L"MyPresentation.pptx", 1, 2, L"", L"MyFolder").get();

    // Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
    for (auto shape : remainingShapes->getShapesLinks()) {
        std::wcout << shape->getHref() << std::endl;
    }

    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);

# Delete the second shape from the first slide.
my %parameters = (name => "MyPresentation.pptx", slide_index => 1, shape_index => 2, folder => "MyFolder");
my $remaining_shapes = $slides_api->delete_shape(%parameters);

# Print resource references for the remaining shapes.
for $shape (@{$remaining_shapes->{shapes_links}}) {
    print $shape->{href}, "\n";
}

Swift

DeleteShapes