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Position Element

Move, scale, rotate, or restack a page element in a Google Slides presentation. Unspecified properties keep their current values. Use Get Presentation to find the element's object ID. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Google Slides account once, then configure and run Position Element from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "google_slides-position-element",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    google_slides: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    presentationId: "Presentation ID",
    objectId: "Page Element ID",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Position Element inputs
Property Type Description
presentationId Presentation ID string
The ID of the presentation. This is the long string in the URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/{PRESENTATION_ID}/edit. A full presentation URL is also accepted. Use Find Presentation to resolve a name to its ID.
Required
objectId Page Element ID string
The object ID of the shape, image, table, or other page element to act on. Use Get Presentation and read slides[].pageElements[].objectId.
Required
translateX X Position integer
Horizontal position in points, measured from the top-left of the slide.
Optional
translateY Y Position integer
Vertical position in points, measured from the top-left of the slide.
Optional
scaleXPercent Horizontal Scale integer
Horizontal scale as a percentage of the element's intrinsic size (100 = unscaled). Range 1-1000.
Optional
scaleYPercent Vertical Scale integer
Vertical scale as a percentage of the element's intrinsic size (100 = unscaled). Range 1-1000.
Optional
rotation Rotation integer
Clockwise rotation in degrees (-360 to 360).
Optional
zOrderOperation Z-Order string
Restack the element relative to the other elements on its slide.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
google_slides-position-element
Version
0.0.2
App
Google Slides
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes