Overview
The 'Populate PowerPoint' Power Automate action enables you to populate a Microsoft PowerPoint file (PPTX) with data derived from a JSON document.
Populate PowerPoint Syntax
Please refer to these articles providing detailed guidance and examples for configuring the input PowerPoint file and JSON data: Template Syntax for Populate PowerPoint
Credit Count
This action consumes 1 credit per operation.
Note, different Encodian actions can consume different number credits. Please always check the action specific documentation and read What is an Encodian Action for a full description of how credits are consumed.
Default Parameters
The default 'Populate PowerPoint' flow action parameters are detailed below:
- File Content: The Microsoft PowerPoint file (PPTX) to populate
- JSON Data: The JSON data to populate the Microsoft PowerPoint file with
Please refer to the Obtaining the 'File Contents' Parameter article for guidance on how to obtain a 'File Content' parameter ready to provide to an Encodian flow action.
Advanced Parameters
The advanced 'Populate PowerPoint' Power Automate action parameters are detailed below:
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JSON Parse Mode: Sets the JSON parsing mode for simple values (null, boolean, number, integer, and string).
- Standard: JSON simple values are determined upon parsing of their string representations. For example, '{ "example": "69" }' is determined as an integer in this mode.
- Strict: JSON simple values are determined directly from the JSON notation. For example, '{ "example": "69" }' is determined as an string in this mode.
- Allow Missing Values: Sets the engine to allow missing values 'JSON Data'
- Remove Empty Paragraphs: Sets the engine to automatically removes any empty paragraphs upon execution
- Inline Errors: Produces errors within the resultant file as opposed to rejecting the request with a HTTP 4** error
- Date Time Formats: Set one or more specific formats for parsing DateTime values
- Culture Name: This setting is used to set the culture for the document prior to conversion. Please refer to the Culture Names article for a list of supported culture
Return Parameters
The 'Populate PowerPoint' flow action returns the following data.
Action Specific Return Values
- File Content - The populated PowerPoint file (Base64)
Standard Return Values
- OperationId - The unique ID assigned to this operation.
- HttpStatusCode - The HTTP Status code for the response.
- HttpStatusMessage - The HTTP Status message for the response.
- Errors - An array of error messages should an error occur.
- Operation Status - Indicates whether the operation has completed, has been queued or has failed.
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