How to show PowerPoint presentations

The PowerPoint app allows you to select a PowerPoint presentation from a Microsoft account to be shown on the Airtame screen.

This should not be confused with screen sharing a PowerPoint presentation from a computer. The PowerPoint app will show the presentation as digital signage, at a defined schedule.

Click here to read more about screen-sharing

Requirements

To use your PowerPoint presentation, please ensure the following:

• The presentation is located online in a SharePoint folder.
• You have access to the presentation using your Microsoft account
• The presentation has the file type .ppt or.pptx

How to set up a playlist with a PowerPoint presentation

• Log into your Airtame Cloud account.
• Select one or multiple Airtame screens.
• Click the Edit settings button.
• Select the Signage menu.
• Click either the Edit or Add New button for the playlist to use. This depends on whether you already have set up a playlist.

• Click the Add button.

• Choose the PowerPoint app.

• Click the Sign in with Microsoft button to sync with your Microsoft account.

• Click the Select Presentation button and choose which presentation to use.
• Optional: Set the Time to advance to the next slide, to control how long each slide is shown for.
• Optional: Set the Format to Stretch or Fit to Screen to adjust the way the slide will be displayed depending on the resolution.

• Click the Save button to save the app.

• Optional: Change the duration of the PowerPoint app.

• Click the Save button to save the playlist.

• Click the Save button to save your Airtame screen(s) changes.

The PowerPoint app, configured to show a presentation

Considerations

• When setting up the PowerPoint app, the user might be asked to grant permission to the Airtame Cloud. This permission requires Admin consent for Microsoft, meaning that an Admin in your Microsoft organization has to approve this Airtame Cloud app.
  This can be done in two ways
  1. When an Admin tries to configure the PowerPoint app for the first time, on the authentication screen, the Admin can also approve it for the whole Microsoft organization.
  2. In the MS Console (Azure) you can search for the Airtame Cloud PowerPoint app and grant access.
• The PowerPoint app does not support any embedded videos, transitions, hidden slides, or animations. If your slideshow has some transitions or animations, they will not be shown on the Airtame device when running the PowerPoint app. For transitions or animations to be shown, turn your PowerPoint presentation into a video file. Learn more in this article: Display presentations as Airtame's background
• If your slideshow has hidden slides, they will be shown on the Airtame device when running the PowerPoint app. (We suggest either converting the presentation to a video or completely removing the hidden slides from the PowerPoint)

• The PowerPoint app will update the content every time it is reloaded. That means that if someone starts sharing to the screen, if the device advances between multiple apps in the playlist, or if the device is rebooted the content will be updated as the PowerPoint app reloads. All you'd have to do is to ensure you update the same file in OneDrive and that the time that it runs allows all slides to be shown (in case you add more slides as time passes by).