merge-designs

Use merge-designs to restructure designs at the page level: insert pages from another design, reorder pages, or delete pages. To change content within a page, use start-editing-transaction instead.

"Add slides 5 and 6 from the roadmap deck to the end of my Q1 review."

Pass a type of create_new_design (with a title) or modify_existing_design (with the design_id), plus an operations array containing one operation: insert_pages, move_pages, or delete_pages. The server accepts a single operation per call, so to combine pages from several designs, create the design from the first source and then call the tool again with modify_existing_design for each further source.

IDs, URLs, and tokens below are placeholders; field names and structure are exactly as returned.

This tool wraps results in an asynchronous job object. The server waits for the merge to finish (up to about a minute) before responding, so status is normally success; check it before using the result.

{
  "job": {
    "id": "job_EXAMPLE",
    "status": "success",
    "result": {
      "design": {
        "id": "DAF_EXAMPLE",
        "title": "Q1 Review",
        "urls": {
          "edit_url": "https://www.canva.com/d/EXAMPLE_EDIT",
          "view_url": "https://www.canva.com/d/EXAMPLE_VIEW"
        },
        "created_at": 1784078449,
        "updated_at": 1784078453,
        "page_count": 5
      }
    }
  }
}

Returns a job whose result.design is the new or modified design, with its id, title, urls, and page_count; a thumbnail is included when available. Give the user the edit_url.

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