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  •     bgrovens August 14, 2012 3:01PM
    Hi Support,

    It has been brought to my attention that we are no longer allowed to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows Servers at our firm. After discussions last week on the phone I was told that Visokio required PowerPoint to be installed on the server for you to automatically publish a report to PowerPoint Formatt. Please advise if anything else is effected like sourcing data from an excel sheet?

    My next question is what is the feasibility of getting PowerPoint exporter packaged within the installation .exe of Visokio. Thus fixing the problem of needing the software installed on the box. This would work similar to outputting a .pdf as you don't have to have Adobe writter installed on the server to output this way.

    Thanks for the help,
    Brian
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  •     chris August 15, 2012 4:34AM
    Hi,

    At the moment do need to have Microsoft Office and PowerPoint installed on a Windows PC to be able to publish to a PowerPoint file.

    The Excel source does not require Excel to be installed. This is because we have implemented three different readers: "Excel as Text", "Excel direct" and "Omniscope". The "Omniscope" reader can be used on a PC/Mac without a Microsoft Office installation.

    Other sources/publishers (Access, PDF etc) have also been developed to allow you to read/publish the data without having to have the associated program (Microsoft Access, Adobe Acrobat reader) installed on the computer. In fact the PowerPoint publisher is currently the only program that can be read/written to in Omniscope that does have this requirement.

    We will investigate whether we can create a PowerPoint publisher that does not require a PowerPoint installation and post back shortly.
  •     chris August 20, 2012 8:48AM
    Hi,

    In tomorrow's 2.8 release (b265) we have added support for publishing to a PowerPoint file without the need for Office or PowerPoint to be installed.

    When you open up a PowerPoint publisher block you should see a drop-down option "Writer". This determines which method Omniscope should use for writing the PowerPoint data. There are currently two options:

    - PowerPoint direct. This requires PowerPoint to be installed on your computer.
    - Omniscope. This does not require PowerPoint to be installed. At the moment the Omniscope writer does not support inserting spreadsheets into an existing PowerPoint presentation. You can only use it to create a new presentation.

    Please let us if you encounter any problems using this functionality or have any questions.

  •     bgrovens August 20, 2012 11:00AM
    Great, thanks Chris! I'll test this tomorrow once the build has been released.
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