Generate PowerPoint Presentation from External Source

[Ken F.]

I am a high school teacher and I am trying to find a way so that information
could be entered from any computer in the building on a website or via email
or some other fashion electronically, then PowerPoint can run a script or a
program and then a PowerPoint presentation will be generated and played on
the inschool channel. Does anyone have any ideas on solutions?

 

[Kurt]

Dear Ken,
There is one product that can do that, even linked to an outlook mailbox
(mail or calender) and refreshes the information on the monitor while
running.
Have a look at www.take-off.as

Kurt

 

[Ken F.]

Kurt,

At our school, we only have office 97, therefore the reqirements of the
program are not met.

How would one create a dynamic slide show that would vary from day to day.
I downloaded the trial, and it does do the trick, but you have to custom
make the slides for each data source that you have in it. Do you know of
anyone that already has this in use at their school that I could get into
contact with?

Here is what I am trying to do:

A teacher has an announcement to put on the bulletin system.
They go to an intranet server and post it via HTTP using PHP and mySQL to
the server.
An administrator then comes along throughout the day and approves the
messages.
After approval, the message is then posted. Also while posting, there would
be a selection on how much time the information would be displayed.
Every user on the system already has a Novell username and password, so it
would be nice if that server could just use the same credentials.
The message, then after the time has expired, would then go away.
It would be nice to to have slides that have different looks depending on
what the event is, such as couseling department information, club
information, general school information, etc.

Let me know. Please post for everyones knowledge and then send me an
individual email as well.

Thanks.

Ken

 

[Kurt]

Ken,
Yes indeed, it only works for office 2000 and up, not 97. I'm not a 97
specialist but as far as I know the Office 97 automation is very limited
compared to the 2000 version. I would suggest to upgrade....

Connecting DataPoint to a mySQL database is not a problem. I think it
doesn't make much sense to look for another school's presentation as their
database and way of working is always different from yours. And yes, in that
case you have to set up once your school template connected to your own
database. But that's a one time effort.

Kurt.