Hide and unhide slides based on relation to key slides

[Anthony Harlan]

Greetings!

I'm making an announcements slide show, and I have 5 key slides called "Read Monday", "Read Tuesday", etc. then there are some slides after the Friday section that are a closing.

I'd like to write a script to run at midnight that does the following:

today = "Read "+day_of_week.index

tomorrow = "Read "+day_of_tomorrow.index

for slide in "Read Monday".index to "Closing".index{

  slide.hide

  if today < index < tomorrow {

    slide.unhide

  }

} 

I don't know how to name specific slides so that I can reference them later and find their index. I can have users put comments in the reader notes, but I don't know how to parse the reader notes either. What ideas do you have?

[cwl...@gmail.com]

The way I do it is, use the main text of the title in the slide, and then I name them based on the text. Whenever the slides are opened, the script runs to be able to relocate those slides (or put it on a timed trigger like you have it). 

Just ensure each slide's main title text is unique: 

Then my code looks something like this:

const documentProperties = PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties();

let wedPageID = documentProperties.getProperty('WEDNESDAY_PAGEID');

//get all slides, iterate through them looking for the textbox that contains "Wednesday" (in this example)

async function getPageIDs() {

  var ss = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation();

  var slides = ss.getSlides();

  slides.forEach( (slide, i) => {

      var shapes = slide.getShapes();

        shapes.forEach( (shape, j) => {

          var shapeText = shape.getText().asString();

            if ( shapeText === "Wednesday\n") {

              documentProperties.setProperty('WEDNESDAY_PAGEID', slide.getObjectId())

            }

        })

    })

}

the above was just to get the slideIds into storage for use in your actual update scripts:

async function updateWed() {

  var ss = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation();

  var slide = ss.getSlideById(wedPageID);

  slide.selectAsCurrentPage();

...

//your code here if this slide gets updated automagically

 

...

//refresh the slide

  ss.getSlideById(wxMapPageID).refreshSlide()

}

This works for me for updating daily slides that get briefed. Briefers just push the buttons in a sidebar and the content is updated automatically... no more copy/pasting.. lol