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intrasight
Helper IV
9 years ago

Turning PowerPoint slides into custom visualizations.

A couple years back, I did a project where we used PowerPoint as the presentation-tier for data in our database. I have several clients that find that approach very useful. Now that I've started us...
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Krizz83
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Hi Intrasight,

The PowerBI API already have some functionality to integrate reports into Iframes:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-integrate-report/
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-integrate-tile/
I think it will be quite easy to integrate the tiles into PowerPoint with this API and you don't need to create all the code to generate the tiles (even thogh that is the fun part :-)).

DevScope have also made a similar add-in:
https://store.office.com/en-us/app.aspx?assetid=WA104379699&sourcecorrid=b99e159f-ec29-4016-a481-dc796f56855c&searchapppos=3&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&appredirect=false
However it does not allow automatic filtering of the tiles, so the user needs to manually filter on each PowerPoint slide.

 

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    Krizz83
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    sorry for reposts, my account had some problems

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      intrasight
      Helper IV
      9 years ago

      Hi Krizz83,

      Thank you for your reply, but I believe you interpreted my proposal in reverse. My indent is to convert PowerPoint slides into custom visualizations - not to generate PowerPoint from Power BI.

      Please do, in this light, continue the discussion. Thanks.