Delete Document Properties

Introduction

This article shows you how to delete document properties from a PowerPoint presentation. The request methods described below can be used for deleting one or all properties at once.

Please note that you cannot delete standard properties, such as Author, Title, Company, etc. Attempting to delete these properties only deletes their values. Some automatically updated properties and their values cannot also to be deleted either, such as CreatedTime, LastSavedTime, etc. Custom properties are deleted completely.

DeleteDocumentProperties

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/documentproperties	DELETE	Deletes all document properties from a presentation.	DeleteDocumentProperties

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The name of a presentation file.
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`.

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

Examples

Delete all document properties from MyFolder/MyPresentation.pptx document saved to the default storage. Use MyPassword string to open the presentation.

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 Document Properties

curl -X DELETE "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentproperties?folder=MyFolder" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
     -H "password: MyPassword"

Response

Response Example

{
    "list": [
        {
            "name": "Author",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Author?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Category",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Category?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Comments",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Comments?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Company",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Company?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Keywords",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Keywords?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastSavedBy",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastSavedBy?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Manager",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Manager?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "NameOfApplication",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/NameOfApplication?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "RevisionNumber",
            "value": "1",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/RevisionNumber?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Subject",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Subject?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Template",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Template?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Title",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Title?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "TotalEditingTime",
            "value": "PT0S",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/TotalEditingTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "CreatedTime",
            "value": "2022-07-15T13:57:12.1753779Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/CreatedTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastPrinted",
            "value": "2022-07-15T13:57:12.1753791Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastPrinted?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastSavedTime",
            "value": "2022-07-15T13:57:12.1753791Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastSavedTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        }
    ],
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties?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.Diagnostics;

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

        // Delete all document properties.
        var currentProperties = slidesApi.DeleteDocumentProperties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder");

        // Print the current document properties.
        foreach (var property in currentProperties.List)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine($"{property.Name}: {property.Value}");
        }
    }
}

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 all document properties.
        DocumentProperties currentProperties = slidesApi.deleteDocumentProperties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder", null);

        // Print the current document properties.
        for (DocumentProperty property : currentProperties.getList()) {
            System.out.printf("%s: %s%n", property.getName(), property.getValue());
        }
    }
}

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 all document properties.
$currentProperties = $slidesApi->deleteDocumentProperties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder");

// Print the current document properties.
foreach ($currentProperties->getList() as $property) {
    echo sprintf("%s: %s\n", $property->getName(), $property->getValue());
}

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 all document properties.
current_properties = slides_api.delete_document_properties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder")

# Print the current document properties.
for property in current_properties.list
    puts "#{property.name}: #{property.value}"
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 all document properties.
current_properties = slides_api.delete_document_properties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder")

# Print the current document properties.
for property in current_properties.list:
    print(f"{property.name}: {property.value}")

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 all document properties.
slidesApi.deleteDocumentProperties("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyPassword", "MyFolder").then(currentProperties => {
    // Print the current document properties.
    currentProperties.body.list.forEach(property => {
        console.log(property.name + ": " + property.value);
    });
});

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 = new SlidesApi(L"MyClientId", L"MyClientSecret");

    // Delete all document properties.
    auto currentProperties = slidesApi->deleteDocumentProperties(L"MyPresentation.pptx", L"MyPassword", L"MyFolder").get();

    // Print the current document properties.
    for (auto property : currentProperties->getList()) {
        std::wcout << property->getName() << L": " << property->getValue() << std::endl;
    }

    std::cin.get();

    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 all document properties.
my %parameters = (name => "MyPresentation.pptx", password => "MyPassword", folder => "MyFolder");
my $current_properties = $slides_api->delete_document_properties(%parameters);

# Print the current document properties.
for my $property (@{$current_properties->{list}}) {
    print("$property->{name}: $property->{value}\n");
}

Swift

DeleteDocumentProperty

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/documentproperties/{propertyName}	DELETE	Deletes a document property from a presentation.	DeleteDocumentProperty

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The name of a presentation file.
propertyName	string	path	true	The name of a document property to be deleted.
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`.

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

Examples

Delete the custom document property named MyProperty from MyFolder/MyPresentation.pptx saved to the default storage.

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 Property

curl -X DELETE "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentproperties/MyProperty?folder=MyFolder" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <access_token>"

Response

Response Example

{
    "list": [
        {
            "name": "Author",
            "value": "Jhon Smith",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Author?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Category",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Category?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Comments",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Comments?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Company",
            "value": "Aspose",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Company?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Keywords",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Keywords?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastSavedBy",
            "value": "Jhon Smith",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastSavedBy?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Manager",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Manager?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "NameOfApplication",
            "value": "Microsoft Office PowerPoint",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/NameOfApplication?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "RevisionNumber",
            "value": "2",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/RevisionNumber?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Subject",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Subject?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Template",
            "value": "",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Template?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Title",
            "value": "My Title",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/Title?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "TotalEditingTime",
            "value": "PT3M",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/TotalEditingTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "CreatedTime",
            "value": "2022-07-15T13:29:06Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/CreatedTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastPrinted",
            "value": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastPrinted?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "LastSavedTime",
            "value": "2022-07-15T16:46:30Z",
            "builtIn": true,
            "selfUri": {
                "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties/LastSavedTime?folder=MyFolder",
                "relation": "self"
            }
        }
    ],
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/MyPresentation.pptx/documentProperties?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.Diagnostics;

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

        // Delete the document property.
        var currentProperties = slidesApi.DeleteDocumentProperty("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", null, "MyFolder");

        // Print the current document properties.
        foreach (var property in currentProperties.List)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine($"{property.Name}: {property.Value}");
        }
    }
}

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 document property.
        DocumentProperties currentProperties = slidesApi.deleteDocumentProperty("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", null, "MyFolder", null);

        // Print the current document properties.
        for (DocumentProperty property : currentProperties.getList()) {
            System.out.printf("%s: %s%n", property.getName(), property.getValue());
        }
    }
}

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 document property.
$currentProperties = $slidesApi->deleteDocumentProperty("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", null, "MyFolder");

// Print the current document properties.
foreach ($currentProperties->getList() as $property) {
    echo sprintf("%s: %s\n", $property->getName(), $property->getValue());
}

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 document property.
current_properties = slides_api.delete_document_property("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", nil, "MyFolder")

# Print the current document properties.
for property in current_properties.list
    puts "#{property.name}: #{property.value}"
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 document property.
current_properties = slides_api.delete_document_property("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", None, "MyFolder")

# Print the current document properties.
for property in current_properties.list:
    print(f"{property.name}: {property.value}")

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 document property.
slidesApi.deleteDocumentProperty("MyPresentation.pptx", "MyProperty", null, "MyFolder").then(currentProperties => {
    // Print the current document properties.
    currentProperties.body.list.forEach(property => {
        console.log(property.name + ": " + property.value);
    });
});

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 = new SlidesApi(L"MyClientId", L"MyClientSecret");

    // Delete the document property.
    auto currentProperties = slidesApi->deleteDocumentProperty(L"MyPresentation.pptx", L"MyProperty", L"", L"MyFolder").get();

    // Print the current document properties.
    for (auto property : currentProperties->getList()) {
        std::wcout << property->getName() << L": " << property->getValue() << std::endl;
    }

    std::cin.get();

    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 document property.
my %parameters = (name => "MyPresentation.pptx", property_name => "MyProperty", folder => "MyFolder");
my $current_properties = $slides_api->delete_document_property(%parameters);

# Print the current document properties.
for my $property (@{$current_properties->{list}}) {
    print("$property->{name}: $property->{value}\n");
}

Swift

SDKs

Using an SDK (API client) is the quickest way for a developer to speed up development. An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project. Check out our GitHub repository for a complete list of Aspose.Slides Cloud SDKs along with working examples, to get you started in no time. Please check Available SDKs article to learn how to add an SDK to your project.

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