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DataPoint manual

Introduction
Designing

Data connections

Slide properties

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Presenting
 
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Designing

A data shape is a standard Microsoft PowerPoint shape or object that can bound to DataPoint. The most used shapes are probably text boxes, images, graphs and tables. You can add a date or ticking clock to your slides. Or when you use data connections, you can specify which text is displayed within a text box. Or choose to display a linked OLE object such as a picture or video, based on the information that is deducted from the data connection.
 

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Clock shapes
Text shapes
Table shapes
Graph shapes
Picture shapes
Movie shapes
Linked objects
Linked websites
 
Linked websites
 
Introduction

Use a linked website to dynamically display the content of that website or web page in your presentation. The web page that will be shown is deducted from the information of your data connection.

 

Adding an internet browser to your slide

Click View> Toolbars and verify that the Control toolbox is enabled. If not, click the Control toolbox in order to activate it. Now at the control toolbox on the More controls... button and select Microsoft Web Browser from the list. Now place the browser on a slide.

Click DataPoint > Linked object properties to continue.

 

Connection

Select an existing data connection from the list. These items are the data connections you have defined as data sources for this presentation.

 

Column

Choose a column from the available columns list. These are all the columns that DataPoint could find in the defined data connection. The content of the column refers to the URL or web page you want to display.

 

Row

Enter the row number of the record you want to use. Normally this starts with value 1 but in case you want to display multiple data rows on 1 slide, then you can put multiple URL's on this slide and increment the row number for each new row.

 

Linked object reference

Here you can specify what information can be found in the chosen Column field. This field will always refer to an URL. This reference or path could be the full path of the URL but it could also contain only the filename of the page you want to display. In that case you can set here what the default folder is to look for the page.

Set Folder, filename and extension when your field contains the full path to the URL. Folder and filename can be chosen when the full path is not including the extension of the file (e.g. jpg). When choosing Filename and extension you will be able to set the folder to locate the web page. And finally the Filename only can be used to set the folder and the extension to a constant.

 

Clear

Click Clear to remove all DataPoint properties from the object and return to a normal and static shape.

 

 

 

 


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