Logo Tracking in PPT

[AtlantaTed1957]

We have a corporate website with over 100 internal presentations
loaded. Many contain dozens in the form of JPGs, GIFs, etc., (some
pages have over 100) customer and/or client logos.

My CMO has charged me with instituting a tracking mechanism for
updating logos. If company XYZ logo changes, I should be able to
identify presentations affected and make the changes.

Problems:

- Would like to add logo names under properties, but that is only
useful if PPTs are stored on a drive.
- Adding logos to properties (or added text to a hidden slide) would
only be searchable if stored on a drive
- Create an Excel file with filenames & company names, making searches
easier. Very time consuming. Tracking changes a nightmare and very
prone to error.

Does anyone have a similar situation? Any suggestions? Trying to come
up with a relatively painless solution.

Thanks in advanced for your help.

AtlantaTed1957

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We have a corporate website with over 100 internal presentations
loaded. Many contain dozens in the form of JPGs, GIFs, etc., (some
pages have over 100) customer and/or client logos.

My CMO has charged me with instituting a tracking mechanism for
updating logos. If company XYZ logo changes, I should be able to
identify presentations affected and make the changes.

Problems:

- Would like to add logo names under properties, but that is only
useful if PPTs are stored on a drive.

Where are they stored, if not on a drive?

- Adding logos to properties (or added text to a hidden slide) would
only be searchable if stored on a drive

Same question.

- Create an Excel file with filenames & company names, making searches
easier. Very time consuming. Tracking changes a nightmare and very
prone to error.

You'll have to identify the images that are logos (and should therefore be
tracked) vs those that are not. That will probably take human intervention
unless the logos are uniquely identifiable in some way.

You'll need to establish a "connection" between the image in PPT and the
original image on disk. Not a link as such but, for example, a tag applied to
the image in PPT that includes the path to the source file and perhaps the time
and date of the source file. That again will take a very patient human.

The rest could be automated, but for all of this, you'd need access to the
drive where the PPTs are stored, or to a staging disk where you can make
changes before the files are uploaded to the server.

Without the ability to read and write files, you can't very well get anywhere
with this.