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Google Slides Integration with Orkes Conductor

Available since

  • v5.3.0 and later

Integrating Google Slides with Orkes Conductor lets you build workflows that interact with your Google Slides using the following operations:

  • Create Presentation
  • Add Slide
  • Add Text Box
  • Get Presentation Slides
  • Get Presentation
  • Get Page
  • Replace Text in Presentation
  • Get Thumbnail

This guide explains how to set up and use the integration. Here’s an overview:

  1. Get the required credentials from Google Console.
  2. Configure a new Google Slides integration in Orkes Conductor.
  3. Use Google Slides integration in workflows.

Step 1: Get the Google Console credentials

To integrate Google Slides with Orkes Conductor, retrieve the OAuth client ID and secret from the Google console, and enable the Google Slides API.

Get OAuth Client credentials

To get the credentials:

  1. Go to the Google Cloud Console.
  2. Select your project or create a new one.
  3. In the left navigation menu, go to APIs & Services > Credentials
  4. Select + Create credentials > OAuth client ID.
  5. Choose your application type as Web application, and enter a Name.
  6. In Authorized redirect URIs, select +Add URI and enter your redirect URI in the format https://<YOUR-CONDUCTOR-CLUSTER-NAME>/integrations/oauth/callback.
  7. Select + Create.
  8. Note the generated OAuth Client ID and secret, or download and save the JSON.

Enable Google Slides API

To enable Google Slides API access:

  1. Go to APIs & Services > Enabled APIs & services.
  2. Select + Enable APIs and services.
  3. Search for Google Slides API and enable it.

Step 2: Add an integration for Google Slides

After obtaining the credentials, add a Google Slides integration to your Conductor cluster.

To create an integration:

  1. Go to Integrations > Connected Apps from the left navigation menu on your Conductor cluster.
  2. Select + New integration.
  3. In the Productivity section, choose Google Slides.
  4. Select + Add and enter the following parameters:
Parameter Description Required/Optional
Integration name A name for the integration. Required.
Scope The OAuth2 scope for Google Slides API access. The scope you select determines the level of access Google grants to the integration. Supported values:
  • Read Only: Grants read-only access to slides.
  • Read & Write: Grants full read and write access to slides.
 Required.
OAuth Client ID The OAuth client ID generated from Step 1. Required.
OAuth Client Secret The OAuth client secret generated from Step 1. Required.
Default Presentation Id The default presentation ID to use. To get the presentation ID, open the presentation in Google Slides. The ID is the string of characters at the end of the URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/<YOUR-PRESENTATION-ID>. Optional.
Description A description of the integration. Required.
  1. (Optional) Toggle the Active button off if you don't want to activate the integration instantly.
  2. Select Save.

This takes you to the Google sign-in page, where you can authorize the connection with your Google account. Once authorized, the integration is created successfully.

Step 3: Use Google Slides integration in workflows

Once the integration is ready, this can be used directly within the workflows.

To use Google Slides integration in a workflow:

  1. Go to Definitions > Workflow from the left navigation menu on your Conductor cluster.
  2. Select + Define workflow.
  3. In your workflow, select the (+) icon and select Connected Apps.
  4. In Add Task panel on the right, search for Google Slides, and select the integration created in Step 2.

The following operations are available for use with this integration.

Operation Description Supported Integration Scopes
Create Presentation Create a new Google Slides presentation with the provided title.
  • Read & Write
Add Slide Add a new slide with a predefined layout to a presentation.
  • Read & Write
Add Text Box Add a text box with content to a slide.
  • Read & Write
Get Presentation Slides List slide page IDs and types in a presentation.
  • Read & Write
  • Read Only
Get Presentation Retrieve presentation metadata, including slides.
  • Read & Write
  • Read Only
Get Page Fetch a single page (slide) by its object ID.
  • Read & Write
  • Read Only
Replace Text in Presentation Replace all occurrences of text in a presentation.
  • Read & Write
Get Thumbnail Fetch a page thumbnail URL.
  • Read & Write
  • Read Only
  1. Select the required operation, configure the parameters, and select Save > Confirm.
  2. Select Execute to run the workflow.

For the complete operations parameters and output reference, see Google Slides Operations Reference.