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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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v-qiuyu-msft
Community Support
9 years ago

By behavior,
I mean specifying rules for how data changes cause the shapes to move, resize,
rotate, change color, etc.

 

Hi intrasight,

 

Power BI includes built-in visuals and custom visuals, we can format visuals from Format pane. Each visual's Format pane are different, it depends on the author who design this visual.

 

 

Also we can use R visual to display data flexibly. You can refer to links below:

Create Power BI visuals using R

R for the masses with Power BI

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

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    intrasight
    Helper IV
    9 years ago

    Hi Qiuyun Yu,

    Thank you for your reply.

    Yes, Power BI supports custom visuals - that's the whole basis of what I proposed. Currently, to create a custom visual one must be a software engineer. What I am proposing to build is an add-on to PowerPoint that will allow anyone to create a custom visual by doing so within PowerPoint. The rules they specify for how shapes should bind to data would auto-generate the Format Pane. Do you understand now?

    If anyone in the Power BI community here has a PowerPoint slide that they are interested in turning into a custom visual, feel free to contact me. I am looking for some test cases.

     - Chris

    • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
      v-qiuyu-msft
      Community Support
      9 years ago

      Hi intrasight,

       

      Sorry for the misunderstanding.

       

      As far as I know, we are not able to turn Power Point slider to custom visual and import it into Power BI desktop currently.

       

      Best Regards,
      Qiuyun Yu