Nprinting 16 - PPT Conditional Slide?

[cbaqir]

I have a PPT that has a graph on it. I am looking for a way to say that if the graph doesn't contain any rows to not create the slide. Is that possible?

[Lech_Miszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi - It is not possible out of the box in NPrinitng.

This could be only true if you use a PAGE functionality to loop through a value and create a chart only for existing values (still - one chart will be created anyways)

If you want to completly remove the chart from your PPT - this is not possible in NP.

cheers

Lech

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[hugmarcel]

It is not possible in NP, but you could do this (high Level):

1.) Create a QlikView Variable which holds the Information whether the slide should be used or not, depending on the chart data.

2.) Use a dynamic name for the report to be created, use the QV variable to create the name.

3.) In Windows Task Scheduler, set up a background job which evaluates the report file name.

Depending on the file name, the slide shall be deleted from the PPT file, or not. Use a vbs PowerPoint.Application Object to do so in VBS Code:

Option Explicit

Sub DEL()

Dim ppProgram As Object
Dim ppPres As Object
Dim ppSlide As Object
Dim i As Long

On Error Resume Next
Set ppProgram = GetObject(, "PowerPoint.Application")
On Error GoTo 0

    ' set the ppPres object to active PowerPoint presentation
    Set ppPres = ppProgram.ActivePresentation

    ' delete the slide if file Name condition is met, or not:

      Set ppSlide = ppPres.Slides(7) 'or any other slide number you want to delete
        ppSlide.Delete           

End Sub

Marcel