Ah I see, apologies for the misunderstanding on my part there @TORLEY!
I’ve been doing some testing on this end and you’re right it does appear that once the images are added into the Google Slide it seems to make a copy of it as you say, and not just link it to the actual file itself, which means that using that approach on Nick’s post won’t work for updating those images.
Looking at the available actions for Google Slides it doesn’t look like that’s going to be possible. You’d need to:
- Be able to add the images to the slide - digging in further it appears that there’s a bug where supplying images for placeholders when using the Create Presentation from Template action isn’t working as expected.
- Update the Slide to change the image - there’s no existing action for this but I found that there’s an open feature request for the ability to update a slide which would allow you to update the image on it.
So I’ve gone ahead and added you to the bug report and feature request mentioned above. I can’t make any promises around when those will be sorted but we’ll definitely send you an email notification as soon as they are.
In the meantime, the only other workaround I could think of would be to potentially use the Google Slides API Request action to add/update the images. It’s a bit more advanced as you’d need to reference Google Slide's API documentation when setting up the request. But if it’s something you’d be interested in trying and assuming the Google Slides API supports it, please see our Set up an API request action guide to learn more.
If you give that a try please keep us updated on how you get on!
