Images from Web Report in Powerpoint

[Former Member]

I have a requirement to link charts that are displayed in a web report into a powerpoint presentation.

The powerpoint presentation is presented every month, and so the users wish to be able to embed a chart (which is generated from a BW Web report), and then have this update each month with the current data. They don't wish to have to cut and paste the new chart in each month, as there are a large number of charts that would need to be done each month.

Does anyone know a simple method of doing this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance

Regards

Richard

[Ashwin]

Hi richard!

I have an idea of this for copying from workbook but i dont know how it works the charts in webreport. So just give it a try.

first copy the chart from workbook. and then in power point just clik EDIT-> Paste contents(just immediatly below the paste) and in the dilog box that appears just select option for "paste the link " or "shortcut" some think like this(for me it is showing Verknüpfung Einfungen).

I dont know the ext option names here as i am working in german version of the msoffice and i am able to see the changes made to chart in workbook appear in presentation.

Hope this helps.(Award points if it works:-) )

with regards

ashwin

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[Former Member]

Hi ashwin, thanks for your reply.

The problem with the method that you suggest is that it uses workbooks - all of the reports we develop are Web Reports.

Using your method would mean that I have to redo 100+ reports as workbooks, so as you would understand I am reluctant to go down this path.

Thanks again for your reply.

Regards

Richard

[Former Member]

Richard,

A solution would be to make copies of the webreports (in the WAD) and display the charts only. Then the problem begins....

You can insert the URL's as links in PowerPoint (so you have the most recent data every time) but you want to see the charts themselves. This would mean PP has a sort of internet browser embedded and this is, as far as I know, unfortunately not possible. Maybe you can search the www to find tools which make this possible. Let me know if you find something!

Hope this gets you somewhere...

Regards,

Marco

[Former Member]

There's an add-in called LiveWeb that enables you to embed web pages in PPT. I've never tried it, so I don't know how well it works.

http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm

If I were you, though, I would have the presenter just use the web templates. You could create a simple version of the templates, and include a "Next Slide" button on each template. If you switch to full-screen mode, no one will know it's not PPT.

[Former Member]

Thanks very much for getting back to me guys.

You've pretty much come up with the same solutions that I had thought of - I had discovered the liveweb add in for powerpoint after I posted (FYI it seems to work very well), am still not sure that it is going to satisfy my users who are set in their ways and fear change...they have basically said they would prefer to have the wrong numbers (out of the current reports) than have the correct numbers from the new BW reports if they can't be in the right format (!!!!!).

Such is the mindset of the people I am working with. As you can imagine, this makes them very difficult to reason with.

The approach that I was hoping to use was to put a link to a file that was on a web server, but this doesn't appear to be possible for 2 reasons:

1. Powerpoint doesn't allow you to link to a URL (needs to be a file share)

2. I can't seem to pull just the image from a BW report - I thought I may be able to play with the url, and pull back just the image. Somehow I got it to work once, but I have repeated my steps, and it won't work again. Very strange.

Anyhow, thanks again for your assistance - I will just have to push a bit harder to change the users I think

Wish me luck!!

PS. Marco - check out the Liveweb powerpoint add in that Jason has suggested - it allows you to embed a browser object into a powerpoint slide...

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