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Version: 4.1 (2026 H2)

Design Conversion (DesignConversion)

Purpose and use​

Design conversion automatically transfers slides from external PowerPoint presentations into your own corporate design. This document function is available in PowerPoint content templates and makes the template a possible conversion target: when a user starts the design conversion in PowerPoint, exactly those templates are offered for selection on which this document function is activated.

Which slide layouts of the source presentation are mapped to which of your own layouts is defined in the associated master template — via DesignConversionMappings and IsDesignConversionFallback in the Slide Layout document function. The conversion flow is also described there.

Basic structure​

<DesignConversionConfiguration>

</DesignConversionConfiguration>

Even the empty configuration activates the template as a conversion target.

Attributes​

Attribute nameDescription
ShowForms (optional)Controls whether the template's Forms dialogue is shown during the conversion so that prefilled values can be reviewed and completed. Default value: false — the dialogues are skipped.

Elements​

FormsMapping​

Maps metadata of the source presentation to the Forms fields of the template. The mapped values are available as prefilled Forms fields during generation — visible to the user if ShowForms="true" is set.

<DesignConversionConfiguration ShowForms="true">
  <FormsMapping>
    <Map Source="Title" Target="Subject" />
    <Map Source="Date" Target="Date" />
    <Map Source="Footer" Target="Footer" />
  </FormsMapping>
</DesignConversionConfiguration>

Attributes for Map

Attribute nameDescription
SourceMetadata from the source presentation. Possible values: Title, Date, Footer.
Target (mandatory)Id of the Forms field the value is written to (without the Forms. prefix).
SourceValue (optional)Fixed value assigned instead of a Source metadata item.
SourceExpression (optional)JavaScript expression used to compute the value.
When (optional)Condition; the mapping is only executed if it is met.

If elements (attribute Condition) can be used within FormsMapping to tie several Map elements to a shared condition.