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A PowerPointWriter template is an a PowerPoint presentation that contains PowerPointWriter data markers. A data marker is a line of text beginning with %%= that specifies a database column, variable, or array to insert into the presentation. PowerPointWriter supports data markers embedded in text. Data markers are added to a presentation in PowerPoint and then bound to data sources in code. PowerPointWriter populates the data markers with values from the data sources when the code is executed.
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This Part 1 of this tutorial demonstrates how to use data markers to import single rows of data. |
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Adding data markers to the the template
Our The template for Part 1 consists of 5 2 slides populated with text and data markers.
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1. Start with a blank .pptx file. Save the file as part1_template.pptx.
2. Set the presentation theme by going to the Design tab.
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The rest of the slide will contain additional data about the proposal from the 'Proposal' data source. The data markers we are adding are: %%=Proposal.Leader, %%=Proposal.Start, %%=Proposal.Estimate, %%= Proposal.Summary and %%=Proposal.ReviewStatus. Because PowerPointWriter supports data markers embedded in text, we only need one text box for this information.
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