This function was developed in direct response to suggestions from our person neighborhood and is designed to offer an environment friendly device for managing a number of Energy BI add-ins inside PowerPoint shows.
Background
Energy BI Storytelling permits customers to embed interactive reviews and visuals into PowerPoint, supporting data-driven shows throughout organizations. As adoption has grown, lots of you expressed the necessity for a centralized mechanism to handle and replace a number of Energy BI add-ins throughout a number of slides. You instructed us that you’re utilizing Energy BI add-in for PowerPoint to create data-centric shows, which you might be updating each week or month, and that going over all of the add-ins within the presentation and repeating the identical operation is time consuming. The Energy BI Controller addresses this want by permitting customers to execute bulk operations from a single interface.
An instance state of affairs
Think about a enterprise chief getting ready a month-to-month evaluate presentation containing a number of embedded Energy BI reviews overlaying gross sales, operations, and finance. This person creates a brand new model of the presentation each month, with that month newest information captured as picture mode, after which shares it with the related stakeholders.
Capabilities with Energy BI Controller:
- Change all add-ins to from their present picture view to dwell view with a single motion, guaranteeing each report shows essentially the most present information.
- After updating, revert all add-ins to picture view, locking the information for safe sharing.
- Distribute the finalized presentation to stakeholders, assured that each one info is correct and updated, with out the necessity for repetitive guide updates.
Introducing the Energy BI Controller add-in
The Energy BI Controller is a activity pane add-in that serves as a central command middle for all Energy BI add-ins inside a presentation. With this device, customers can effectively carry out operations throughout all add-ins, guaranteeing consistency and saving beneficial time.
To get this add-in go to ‘Add-ins’ in PowerPoint ribbon and seek for ‘Microsoft Energy BI Controller’. Choose ‘Add’ to add-in to your ribbon. As soon as you choose it, a brand new panel will open with the instructions that the Energy BI Controller helps on this preview launch (change view modes from snapshot/public snapshot to dwell and vice versa, and sync with Energy BI. Extra instructions shall be added quickly.)
If you apply a command on the complete presentation, solely the add-ins that may honor the command will execute it. Different add-ins would possibly reject it and can report again to the controller as not relevant. For instance, when you ship a ‘Change to snapshot’ command and there are add-ins within the presentation which are already in snapshot mode they won’t re-take the snapshot however will report back to the controller that this command will not be relevant for them. Different add-ins, that are in dwell mode, will respect the command and can swap to snapshot mode.
Name to Motion
We encourage all Energy BI Storytelling customers to leverage the Energy BI Controller of their subsequent presentation.
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