Presentation Assets in Present Pro

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 to 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. This includes "insights," that provide an AI-generated analysis of your slide content.
  • Dynamic text and images that respond to changes made by the user or in underlying data. Images may change color, size, and so on. Text may be replaced with content from (or calculated from) the underlying data model. These dynamic changes reflect selected values at runtime.

Adding static assets

You can add static content to your slides to improve their appearance and comprehensibility. You can add text that acts as a title, header, or explanatory note, add shapes such as info icons or other eye-catching graphics, or include images from your local machine. Adding these types of items improves the appearance and readability of your slides, providing context that helps your user to understand the visuals and analytic data on the slides.

Adding variable text fields

You can add #variables to your slides or your slide masters that are replaced with values from your presentation at runtime. This information can include slide numbers, the current date, the author name, and so on, and can be added either to a particular slide or, if you want it to appear on every slide, to the master.

Dynamic assets

Dynamic images and text can respond to selections by users at runtime and changes to the analytic data underlying the slide.

Creating dynamic web panels

Add a panel to your slide that displays a web page when the presentation is launched at runtime. This page can be static, displaying the content at a given URL, or can be dynamic, responding to user selections from slicers or visuals at runtime. A dynamic panel is enabled using a PQL expression that describes the action to take when a slice or visual element is selected.

Integrating dynamic content from Illustrate

Integrate those dynamic images and dynamic text ("infographics") that have been created in Illustrate into your presentation. Their dynamic functionalities defined in Illustrate (changing color, size, rotation, volume, showing or hiding) can be further driven by the values selected from slicers in Present.

Creating dynamic text

Add text to your slide whose content is pulled or calculated from the current data in your data model. For example, if you have a returns column in a Matrix Grid, you can add a dynamic value to the text in your slide that is replaced with the current total returns value at runtime.

Replacing dynamic placeholders

Add a text box to your slide that includes one or more placeholders, each of which should be replaced at runtime with values that are either selected from a slicer or are built dynamically by applying a PQL expression to the value selected from the slicer.

Creating dynamic tooltips

Create custom static or data-driven dynamic tooltips for shapes, images, text blocks, visuals, and graphics, using dynamic text functions. When the presentation is launched at runtime, the asset displays the tooltip that you've configured "on hover."