Good day -

Classic ASP to PowerPoint, is this possibe?

So far my research is not going well for good old classic ASP. has anybody done, heard about or think this is possible?

TYIA

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

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Wind is your friend
Matt

Probably same answer as ASP-to-Word or ASP-to-Excel.

You have to use
    Set ppt = Server.CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
(or similar) and then you can use all the methods that PP "exposes" to VBA coding.

That is, if you know how to use VBA within PowerPoint, you can probably translate the VBA to ASP-based VBS without *too* much difficulty.

The objects, methods, properties, and events you can use are all documented in the HELP for PP, but wading through those docs is not for the faint of heart.

Good luck.

mmmmmm im giving up on this one and I guess I am posting this here for the benefit or advice of others....

I use:
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"

for example when creating .xls docs. Its all to easy to show the ASP pages content inside a .xls file, insert that line above and presto you have your .xls - This powerpoint thing all looks very dificult. The only way I have seen that remotly may do what I wish turns ASP to XML to PowerPoint. However this relies on the client having PowerPoint 2007. There is an update which can enable PP 2003 to facilitate this but this is not an option for me as the SOE of the production environment is very strict and will not allow any client updates.

AGGGHHHH

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

Not at all the same thing.

It just so happens that Excel *can* open up an HTML <TABLE> as if it is a single spreadsheet.

But you can't (for example) produce a multiple-sheet ".xls" file in this manner and you can't create graphs and and and...

To do any of that stuff, you'd have to do as I noted: Script the excel object *ALL ON THE SERVER*. And, unfortunately, that's the answer for PowerPoint.

Not at all trivial. I think I could create a two-slide presentation with simple content in...oh, maybe a full day of messing around?

Interesting, I understand now...

I am steering the client towards simply placing a link in PP preso to extrenal ASP files. Apart from how difficult this would be my leverage is the moment the PP preso is created and distributed its out of date in relation to the main ASP system data. This I think is reason enough to convince them to forget idea.

As always your knowledge is very much appriciated. have a nice day Old Pendant :o)

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

As a minor comment: Even the show-table-as-Excel fails if the user does not have Excel installed on his/her computer. It's strictly a client-side operation.

Of course they wouldnt be able to open it but for what ever reason they could still save the .xls file.

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au