Adding Content items

You can add a variety of content types to your presentations. From existing discoveries to slicers, dynamic images and dynamic infographics, Tabulate visual areas, and so on, all can be added easily from the Content panel. This is the main purpose of your slides, to present some analytic or supporting content to your reader and help them to understand your current data.

Note: You can also build new presentation assets on-the-fly; including new slicers, variable text fields, dynamic text, jump actions, web panels, and actions.

Adding content

Broadly speaking, you can add existing visual assets from the Content panel or Used Content panel, dragging and dropping your items or sub-items onto the canvas as required and you can add new images or text and build new visual assets on-the-fly using the tools in the Toolbox.

Tip: Once visuals and other assets have been added to the presentation canvas, you can resize and customize them as needed. Many items can also be formatted on the Component ribbon or Formatting panel and edited in their specialized app; for example, discoveries can be opened and edited in Discover when you right-click them and select Open in Discover.

Adding slides

You can add new slides to your presentation from the Presentation ribbon, from the slides panel (purple arrow), and using the right-click context menu with your cursor in the Slides panel:

  • Click here for more information about the Present Pro ribbons
  • Click here for more information about the Slides panel

Note: When you add a slide, it is typically added after the last slide in your Slides panel (at the end of your presentation). You can change its position in the overall presentation using drag and drop.

Visuals and Analytics

Adding your visuals and analytics is probably the most important stage of populating each of your slides. It provides the analytic content that is at the heart of the data you want to share with your audience. You can either add existing visuals that have been saved to content manager or you can create one-off visuals that only exist within this presentation and cannot be reused by other users or in other presentations using Smart Present or Discover Lite.

Slicers

You can add slicers to your presentation so that your users can filter their content items at runtime. For example, a slicer may be a drop-down list that allows your end user to select, say, a product that they are interested in. Selecting the product filters the visuals on the slide (and supporting dynamic content, such as dynamic text) to only show data that is relevant to the selected product.

Presentation Assets

After you have added Visuals and Slicers to your presentation, you might also want to add other assets (text and images) that describe, illustrate, and provide insights for your slides. These assets can include static images, shapes, and text; variable text fields whose content gets replaced with slide or presentation details at runtime; insights that provide an AI-generated analysis of your slide content; and dynamic text and images that respond to changes made by the user or in underlying data by changing color, size, reflecting selected values at runtime, and so on.