Scheduling Slides in a Kiosk Presentation

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Chris Benham

Hey, all.

I was curious if anyone knows of a way to schedule the timed playback of
slides in a stand-alone kiosk-style presentation.

I'd like to be able to create a slide and set a date/time start/stop on
each one, so that announcements will automatically be hidden when they
are no longer valid.

I'm assuming this would need to be some sort of plug-in or extension.
If anything like this exists, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks!

Chris Benham
 
Hi Chris,
With www.take-off.as/datapoint you could link your slide to a database (or
excel sheet) in which you enter your announcements and the start and end
time of publication.
With a query you can filter out all current announcements and display them
on the slide without interrupting the presentation.

Regards
Kurt
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for
without resorting to VBA or add-ins.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (without having to resort to
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Thanks, but that's not really what I'm looking to do. Let me give a bit
more info. . .

We're using PowerPoint for our community access television announcement
board. We have a presentation that runs on a loop over our cable
channel with event announcements, program schedules, etc.

Many of the announcements have a date/time at which they are no longer
valid. This is often a date/time when there is no one in the office to
manually hide the slide with that announcement on it.

What I want to be able to do is schedule an individual slide to un-hide
at specific date/time, and then re-hide itself at a specific date/time.
That way the announcement that needs to start at 9:00 am on Friday and
stop running at 10:30 pm on Sunday would just do it automatically.

There are dedicated bulletin board systems that do this, but we already
have PP, and it seems silly to drop $1500 or more on a new system just
for one little additional feature.
 
Chris, what you are describing IS possible with datapoint
(www.take-off.as/datapoint). If you are willing to try it out drop me an
email and I will help you to set it up. To email drop the word NOSPAM from
my address.
Kurt.
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hi Chris,

If you haven't already, remember to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
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This sounds like something that should be pretty easy to do in VBA.
I'll bet one of the MVPs can provide you a few lines of code to do this.
--David
 
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