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Chris_Schaedler
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2 years ago
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Windows Store: Power BI for Presentation mode stops during slideshow-mode after a couple of hours

We had prepared a PC where the App starts a slideshow from page to page and it cycles for ~4 hours and after that the slides won't change anymore and the view of the app stops usually on the last pag...
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  • mshenhav's avatar
    mshenhav
    2 years ago

    hey Chris_Schaedler ,

    The team is working on enabling slideshow support through Power BI add-in for PowerPoint, which we expect to have ready early next year. With Power BI add-in you will be able to utilize PowerPoint slideshow and infinite loop and integrate content from multiple reports and from additional sources in one presentation and slideshow.

     

    Thanks Maya

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    mshenhav
    2 years ago

    Hey Chris_Schaedler ,

     

    Yes, that is the work we are currently doing - allowing users to ask the add-in to automatically refresh its data every given interval. 


    Thanks Maya

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Chris_Schaedler
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2 years ago

welp, this is not the response i have hoped for. Are there reccommodations on how to provide Power BI reports on monitoring-PCs then in an preferably fully atomated way as it is ATM with the App in place (and without the bug i mentioned above)?

 

it is very cumbersome to create a similar slideshow with clicker-automatisations...

 

And my company is not the smallest 😉

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    mshenhav
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    2 years ago

    hey Chris_Schaedler ,

    The team is working on enabling slideshow support through Power BI add-in for PowerPoint, which we expect to have ready early next year. With Power BI add-in you will be able to utilize PowerPoint slideshow and infinite loop and integrate content from multiple reports and from additional sources in one presentation and slideshow.

     

    Thanks Maya

    • Chris_Schaedler's avatar
      Chris_Schaedler
      Regular Visitor
      2 years ago

      ah, that would as well be an option. can we expect as users to have the App until the new feature is coming alive in the Powerpoint-Addin?

       

      We would then try to taskkill the app all four hours just to be restarted via Task-Planner, right?

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      Chris_Schaedler
      Regular Visitor
      2 years ago

      ok I tried the PowerPoint-Addin as it is ATM. so for Static-Reports it appears to work already.

       

      I'm as well interested on a Powerpoint-Addin which refreshes the Numbers live out of the Power BI report druing the presenentation automatically.

       

      To elobarate a bit further:

      1. i want to start the Powerpoint in Slideshow at 9 O'clock cycling from slide to slide (for 60 to 120 Seconds per slide)
      2. the Power bi -Report refreshes at 9:30
      3. The Power Point should take the new report data during the slideshow automatically

      So iexpect to see the new refreshed data to be shown latest in 9:32 within the slideshow while nobody is on the PC.

       

      Will this featureset be included in this update?

      • mshenhav's avatar
        mshenhav
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        2 years ago

        Hey Chris_Schaedler ,

         

        Yes, that is the work we are currently doing - allowing users to ask the add-in to automatically refresh its data every given interval. 


        Thanks Maya