diff --git a/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutton/web/controllers/ApiController.groovy b/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutton/web/controllers/ApiController.groovy
index 00434d72c1..9f26e12d2b 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutton/web/controllers/ApiController.groovy
+++ b/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutton/web/controllers/ApiController.groovy
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.bigbluebutton.web.controllers
 import com.google.gson.Gson
 import grails.web.context.ServletContextHolder
 import groovy.json.JsonBuilder
+import groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64
 import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils
 import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils
@@ -1378,6 +1379,27 @@ class ApiController {
     Boolean isDefaultPresentationCurrent = false;
     def listOfPresentation = []
     def presentationListHasCurrent = false
+    Boolean hasPresentationUrlInParameter = false
+
+
+    String[] pu = request.getParameterMap().get("presentationURL")
+    if (pu != null) {
+      String presentationURL = pu[0]
+      hasPresentationUrlInParameter = true
+      def xmlString = new StringWriter()
+      def xml = new MarkupBuilder(xmlString)
+      xml.document (
+        removable: "true",
+        downloadable: "false",
+        url: presentationURL,
+        filename: extractFilenameFromUrl(presentationURL),
+        name: extractFilenameFromUrl(presentationURL)
+      )
+
+      def parsedXml = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xmlString.toString())
+
+      listOfPresentation << parsedXml
+    }
 
     // This part of the code is responsible for organize the presentations in a certain order
     // It selects the one that has the current=true, and put it in the 0th place.
@@ -1387,10 +1409,17 @@ class ApiController {
         log.warn("Insert Document API called without a payload - ignoring")
         return;
       }
-      listOfPresentation << [name: "default", current: true];
+      if (hasPresentationUrlInParameter) {
+        if (!preUploadedPresentationOverrideDefault) {
+          listOfPresentation << [name: "default", current: false]
+        }
+      } else {
+        listOfPresentation << [name: "default", current: true]
+      }
+
     } else {
       def xml = new XmlSlurper().parseText(requestBody);
-      Boolean hasCurrent = false;
+      Boolean hasCurrent = hasPresentationUrlInParameter;
       xml.children().each { module ->
         log.debug("module config found: [${module.@name}]");
 
@@ -1478,6 +1507,10 @@ class ApiController {
     return true
   }
 
+  def extractFilenameFromUrl(String url) {
+    return url.split('/')[-1]
+  }
+
   def processDocumentFromRawBytes(bytes, presOrigFilename, meetingId, current, isDownloadable, isRemovable,
                                   isInitialPresentation) {
     def uploadFailed = false