How Do I Specify the Target Slide for AddShape in POST /slides/pipeline?

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Hi @mudassir.fayyaz, can you confirm / clarify how AddShape tasks are meant to be constructed when calling POST ​/slides​/pipeline? I’m using AddSlide followed by several AddShape tasks, but AddShape doesn’t take a Slide ID parameter. The resulting PPTX has two blank slides, so I suppose AddSlide() is working (default blank slide plus one added), but no shapes. Unclear to me how to point the AddShape call to a particular slide.

Obviously the regular shapes endpoint takes slideIndex, I just can’t see how to do that with the pipeline call.

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@PresCenter,
Our developers have investigated the case.

Please try using the following request:

curl https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/pipeline -F "pipeline=@pipeline.json;filename=" -F "file1=@MyPres.pptx" -o "MyUpdatedPres.pptx" -v -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAuthToken"

pipeline.json:

{
    "input": {
        "template": {
            "type": "Request",
            "index": 0
        }
    },
    "tasks": [
        {
            "type": "AddSlide"
        },
        {
            "type": "AddShape",
            "shapePath": "slides/-1",
            "shape": {
                "type": "Shape",
                "shapeType": "Rectangle",
                "x": 100,
                "y": 100,
                "width": 500,
                "height": 200,
                "text": "A shape on the new slide"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Save",
            "format": "Pptx",
            "output": {
                "type": "Response"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Please pay attention to the following:

"shapePath": "slides/-1",

You can specify a negative shape index, and it will count from the end. If we understand correctly, that’s what you need, because the newly added slide is obviously the last one in the list.