Intro

This part focuses on taking advantage of PowerPointWriter's repeat slide behavior. It also covers passing between the Template and Application objects and deleting slides if certain conditions are not met.

There are no changes to the code from part 1.

Repeat Behavior

PowerPointWriter offers powerful tools for repeating data across PowerPoint slides. For more information see Fitting Data on to Multiple Slides.

Importing Multiple Rows

We are going to start with the template file as it was at the end of Part 1. Add a new slide with the title 'Team Members'. This slide is going to contain data from the 'Team' data source about the proposed team members for the new project.

In order for multiple rows of data to be imported using a data marker, the data marker must be placed in a list entry or table row. For more information see Importing Multiple Rows of Data

On the 'Team Members' slide, add a new table with 2 rows and 4 columns by going to Insert > Table and choosing the appropriate size. The table will automatically be formatted based on the theme of your presentation.

In the first row of the table, add the headers 'Name', 'Role', 'Joined', and 'Previous Experience'. In the second row, add the corresponding data markers: %%=Team.Name, %%=Team.Role, %%=Team.YearJoined, and %%=Team.Experience. Finally, add the data marker %%=Proposal.ReviewStatus somewhere at the bottom of the slide. Your completed slide should look like the following:

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Fitting Data on to Multiple Slides

If a data source contains too much data

Passing between Template and Application

Delete Slide

Writing the Code

Final Code

Downloads

You can download the code for the Basic PowerPointWriter Tutorials as a Visual Studio solution, which includes the Project Proposal.

• SomeFileName.zip