Is it possible to get the total number of pages when a table's autoPage is true?

[mstudio]

First off, thanks for this amazing tool. It's been a huge time saver.

I am adding multiple tables to my current slide with autoPage: true. This works great. I'm trying to keep track of the current page number for the start of each table. This way, I can reference and link to the slide numbers in an index at the end of the document.

Is there any way to know how many pages/slides autoPage has added after creating the table?

I see it was removed here, noting that developers can keep track of the number of slides added. I can certainly do this with addSlide but I'm not clear on how to do that with tables and autoPage.

Thanks

[mstudio]

I just reviewed the source code and do see that this is available to the slide object as a property: _slideNum, e.g.:

const currentSlide = pptx.addSlide();
const slideNum = currentSlide._slideNum;

[gitbrent]

What's the purpose behind knowing the number of slides?

[kitsonk]

For me, in complex slide generation scenarios keeping track of the number of slides, especially with some auto paged tables, to be able to update a table of contents slide towards the front of the document is complicated without the information as part of the public API.