Managing Tags and Custom Data

Data Storage in Presentation Files

PPTX files—items with the .pptx extension—are stored in the PresentationML format, which is part of the Office Open XML specification. The Office Open XML format defines the structure for data contained in presentations.

With a slide being one of the elements in presentations, a slide part contains the content of a single slide. A slide part is allowed to have explicit relationships to many parts—such as User Defined Tags—defined by ISO/IEC 29500.

Custom data (specific to a presentation) or user can exist as tags (ITagCollection) and CustomXmlParts (ICustomXmlPartCollection).

Tags are essentially string-key pair values.

Getting the Values for Tags

In slides, a tag corresponds to the IDocumentProperties.getKeywords() and IDocumentProperties.setKeywords() methods. This sample code shows you how to get a tag’s value with Aspose.Slides for Java for Presentation:

Presentation pres = new Presentation("pres.pptx");
try{
    String keywords = pres.getDocumentProperties().getKeywords();
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Adding Tags to Presentations

Aspose.Slides allows you to add tags to presentations. A tag typically consists of two items:

the name of a custom property - MyTag
the value of the custom property - My Tag Value

If you need to classify some presentations based on a specific rule or property, then you may benefit from adding tags to those presentations. For example, if you want to categorize or put all presentations from North American countries together, you can create a North American tag and then assign the relevant countries (the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) as the values.

This sample code shows you how to add a tag to a Presentation using Aspose.Slides for Java:

Presentation pres = new Presentation("pres.pptx");
try {
    ITagCollection tags = pres.getCustomData().getTags();
    pres.getCustomData().getTags().set_Item("MyTag", "My Tag Value");
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Tags also can be set for Slide:

Presentation pres = new Presentation();
try {
    ISlide slide = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);
    slide.getCustomData().getTags().set_Item("tag", "value");
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Or any individual Shape:

Presentation pres = new Presentation();
try {
    ISlide slide = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);
    IAutoShape shape = slide.getShapes().addAutoShape(ShapeType.Rectangle, 10, 10, 100, 50);
    shape.getTextFrame().setText("My text");
    shape.getCustomData().getTags().set_Item("tag", "value");
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

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