Dynamic Presentations

[Guest]

Hello
I have a reporting tool that has 30 reports and we would like to automatically generate a Power Point Presentation of these reports, 1 report per page with the click of a button and have the presentation be saved locally. The data in these reports changes daily and the presentations will be created daily as well. Ideally we would like to do something using XML. Does any one know if this is possible to do and if so does anyone know how to do this? Any hints or ideas are greatly appreciated..
blew

 

[Kurt]

Blew,
have a look at www.take-off.as/datapoint
maybe that can help you
Kurt.

Hello-
I have a reporting tool that has 30 reports and we would like to

automatically generate a Power Point Presentation of these reports, 1 report
per page with the click of a button and have the presentation be saved
locally. The data in these reports changes daily and the presentations will
be created daily as well. Ideally we would like to do something using XML.
Does any one know if this is possible to do and if so does anyone know how
to do this? Any hints or ideas are greatly appreciated...

 

[Tushar Mehta]

For some possibilities, check the PowerPoint/Interactive PivotTables
page of my web site.

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Tushar Mehta
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Custom MS Office productivity solutions

Hello-
I have a reporting tool that has 30 reports and we would like to automatically generate a Power Point Presentation of these reports, 1 report per page with the click of a button and have the presentation be saved locally. The data in these reports changes daily and the presentations will be created daily as well. Ideally we would like to do something using XML. Does any one know if this is possible to do and if

so does anyone know how to do this? Any hints or ideas are greatly appreciated...

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not provide support for consuming XML directly (unlike the
latest versions of Word 2003 and Excel 2003).

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[Guest]

Thanks for all of your responses. I looked into all of your suggestions and unfortunately it does not look like it is possible to do what we have been asked to do. We have built a web reporting tool and we have been asked to build a module that automatically generate Power Point Presentations with the click of a button. The presentation must consist of the data that are in the web reports. This poses our first problem; some of the data is pulled right out of the database and is plain text. Other reports perform complex calculations and return either custom graphs or the custom calculated numbers. How can we get this complex data and custom reports into the Power Point Presentation? The other problem is how can automatically generate the presentation with the click of a button from the web application? Most of the tools I have seen are basically a plug in to Power Point to pull data form a database or a file. Unfortunately none of these meet our needs. If anyone can think of a way to do this your feedback is much appreciated
Thanks
blew