Prepares features for output to the Microsoft PowerPoint Writer by providing a convenient interface to set a variety of Microsoft PowerPoint format-specific attributes.
Parameters
Slide Layout
Slide Type
Chooses what kind of slide is to be generated by features going through this styler. Most of the options style a single feature to produce a single slide. Map Slide has the option of using several features to combine their geometries onto one slide.
Custom (Advanced) allows the user full freedom of what layout to use, and how multiple features coming through the feature correlate to aspects of that slide. To use this option, the user must be willing to setup some layouts beforehand through PowerPoint. See Using Custom Slide Layouts for more information.
The types correspond to the following layouts that are present to every PowerPoint presentation:
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FME preset type |
PowerPoint layout |
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| Title Slide | “Title Slide” |
| Title With Body | “Title and Content” |
| Table Slide | “Title and Content” |
| Map Slide | “Blank” or “Title and Content” or “Content with Caption” |
| Chart Slide | “Blank” or “Title and Content” or “Content with Caption” |
| Image Slide | “Blank” or “Title and Content” or “Picture with Caption” |
The GUI types with multiple corresponding PowerPoint layouts are further specified by the Slide subtype GUI option.
Note: Changing any of these slide layouts in your PowerPoint template file, will affect and potentially break functionality.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_type
Title Slide Parameters
Title
The text that will be placed in the title placeholder.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_title_text
Subtitle
The text that will be placed in the subtitle placeholder
Format attribute set: powerpoint_subtitle_text
Slide Parameters
Slide Subtype
This specifies whether a title or caption will accompany the chart.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_type
Title
The text that will be placed in the title placeholder
Format attribute set: powerpoint_title_text
Caption
The text that will be placed in the caption placeholder.
Any line breaks in this text area will create a new paragraph in the caption. Depending on the placeholder’s settings, this might be a typical paragraph, or it may be a new bullet or list item.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_caption_text
Title
Title
The text that will be placed in the title placeholder
Format attribute set: powerpoint_title_text
Body
Text
The text that will be placed in the content placeholder.
Any line breaks in this text area will create a new paragraph in the caption. Depending on the placeholder’s settings, this might be a typical paragraph, or it may be a new bullet or list item.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_paragraph_text
Override Font
The font name, size, and styling properties.
If this is left blank the content placeholder in the template’s “Title and Content” Layout will determine the font attributes.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Note that strikeout text is not supported for Microsoft PowerPoint writing at this time.
Format attribute set: fme_powerpoint_font_data
Override Font Color
The color of the text foreground for this list item.
If this is left blank the content placeholder in the template’s “Title and Content” Layout will determine the font attributes.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_font_color
Image Parameters
Image Scaling
This option allows control over the size of the image. The image will always fit within its placeholder, and if it is sufficiently large, will be cropped to made fit.
Fit Width makes the image width the same as the placeholder’s width.
Fit Height makes the image width the same as the placeholder’s height.
Best Fit sizes the image so that no cropping is required.
Fill stretches the image to fit width and height without cropping.
Fill (Lock Aspect Ratio) sizes the image so that the minimum amount of cropping is required to fill both the placeholder’s width and height.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_image_fit
Image Source
Image Source has two options: From File and From Feature.
If From File is selected, then the Image Filename parameter is used to select a file.
If From Feature is selected, then the styled feature must have a raster geometry. Its raster geometry is written to the Microsoft PowerPoint document.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_image_source
Image Filename
Specifies the path to the desired image.
To browse your file system for an image, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
This parameter is only enabled if Image Source is From File
Format attribute set: powerpoint_image_filename
Hyperlink
Hyperlink Address
If this attribute is set for any content, then that content will be given a hyperlink pointing to the specified address.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_hyperlink
Table Parameters
Table Style
These styles control the table’s colors and line styles. The colors depend on the PowerPoint theme colors if a template is selected.
These styles can all be seen in PowerPoint in the ribbon while editing a table.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_table_style
Alternate Row Color
If set to Yes, adjacent rows in the table will differ in color by a small amount, so that rows are easily distinguished.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_table_banding
Width Units
This in conjunction with Column Width specifies how wide each column should be.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_measurement_units
Table Columns
This table in the GUI will set one format attribute.
Format attribute set: fme_powerpoint_table_data
Column Header
The text to appear in the first row of the particular column.
Header cells are stylized to stand out from the rest of the column cells.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_table_header
Column Values
The text values to appear in the particular column of a table.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_table_value
Column Width
This in conjunction with Width Units specifies how wide each column should be.
If Percentage of Table Width was chosen for Width Units, then 100 means the entire table width, while 1 means only one percent.
Chart Parameters
Chart Type
From here you can pick from a list of unique charts.
The names match up with the charts you can select in PowerPoint after pushing the insert chart button.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_type
Label Data
If Yes, then the series in the charts (whether they are slices of a pie, bars, etc) will be labelled with their numeric value.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_has_labels
Legend
Legend
If checked, a legend will appear with the chart.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_has_legend
Override Font
The font name, size, and styling properties.
If this is left blank a reasonable set of defaults will be chosen, using a font size that is appropriate for the size of the chart.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Note that strikeout text is not supported for PowerPoint writing at this time.
Format attribute set: fme_powerpoint_font_data
Placement
Specifies which side the legend should be located at.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_legend_side
Include in Layout
If Yes then the legend will be within the bounds of the chart. This could cause the legend to overlap the data.
If No some space is made on some side of the chart for the legend.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_legend_inside
Chart Data
Categories
This attribute specifies what each successive value in the series represents. The length of categories should match the length of each series values attribute.
This must be a list attribute.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_chart_categories
The next three parameters, which are part of a table in the GUI, all set the same format attribute: fme_powerpoint_chart_data
Series Values
This attribute specifies what each successive value in the series represents. The length of categories should match the length of each series values attribute.
This must be a list attribute.
Series Name
The name of the series. This is usually only relevant if the legend is shown.
Override Color
The color for this particular series.
If this is left blank, then one of the theme’s default colors will be picked.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Map Parameters
Label Parameters
Label Text
This optional parameter specifies the text to appear centered on a map.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_label
Override Font
The font name, size, and styling properties.
If this is left blank a reasonable set of defaults will be chosen.
Note that strikeout text is not supported for PowerPoint writing at this time.
Format attribute set: fme_powerpoint_font_data
Override Color
The color for this particular series.
If this is left blank, then PowerPoint will attempt to choose a color that will be visible over the shape’s color.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_font_color
Fill Parameters
Fill Pattern
This optional parameter specifies a pattern for the map shape.
If left blank then the entire map will be the foreground color.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_fill_pattern
Foreground Color
The pattern foreground for the map shape.
If this is left blank, then one of the theme’s default colors will be picked.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_fill_fore_color
Background Color
The pattern background for the map shape.
If the pattern was left blank, then this parameter is inconsequential.
If this is left blank, then PowerPoint will attempt to choose a color that will be visible over the shape’s color.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_fill_back_color
Border Parameters
Line Style
The style of the line bordering the map shape.
If left blank then a single solid line will be used.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_border_style
Border Width
The width of the line bordering the map shape.
If this is 0, then no line will be visible.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_border_width
Border Color
The color of the line bordering the map shape.
To edit this parameter, click the browse button to the right of the text field.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_map_border_color
Feature Handling
Create Slide From
The choices are Single Feature and Multiple Features.
If Single Feature is selected, then each feature will make one slide when styled by this Styler.
If Multiple Features is selected, then features will be grouped by the next attribute Slide Group ID, and each group will make one slide.
The different features will all contribute a single shape to a map inside the content placeholder, and the styling properties of each feature will apply just to that one shape. This means that different areas of the map could have different hyperlinks, fill colors, etc.
If Multiple Features is selected, then the Slide Parameters of the first arriving feature will be used, and the rest ignored.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_merge_features
Slide Group ID
The id for a group of features. This can be of any type, and all features given the same id will contribute to the same slide.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_merge_id
Layout Parameters
Layout Name
This name must match some layout in the PowerPoint template file. That layout will be used.
This parameter is case insensitive.
To create a layout in PowerPoint, go to View > Slide Master > Insert Layout. Customize it however you please. To name the layout right click on it on the left in PowerPoint and select rename.
Placeholders
A table containing the following three parameters all sets the Format attribute: fme_powerpoint_placeholders_data
Placeholder ID
The name of a placeholder. This can be seen in PowerPoint through the Selection Pane. To open the Selection Pane in PowerPoint go to Home > Select > Selection Pane…
It is the users responsibility to name these placeholders through the selection pane if they are using a custom layout.
It is recommended that the user specifies unique names for each placeholder on their custom slides.
If multiple maps are set on the same slide with the same Placeholder ID, then the maps are put together in one placeholder.
Type
The type of content to be filled in this placeholder. The type does not by any means have to match with the type of placeholder. For example, feel free to use the type Chart with a Picture Placeholder.
Based on the type, the parameters dialog to the right will change.
Parameters
Click on this to edit the parameters of the content being placed in the specified placeholder.
Create Slide From
The choices are Single Feature and Multiple Features.
If Single Feature is selected, then each feature will make one slide when styled by this Styler.
If Multiple Features is selected, then features will be grouped by the next attribute Slide Group ID, and each group will make one slide.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_merge_features
Slide Group ID
The id for a group of slides. This can be of any type, and all features given the same id will contribute to the same slide.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_merge_id
Slide Ordering
Slide Order Group By
If this is left as Automatic, then all the features going to the Microsoft PowerPoint Writer will be written to a presentation as slides in the same order they arrive. If a value is provided, then the features will be sorted by that value. Features with numeric values come before those with non-numeric values. If more than one feature has the same Slide Order Group By value, then their order is determined by the Slide Order Within Group parameter.
Automatic is actually the same as 0. If some slides are given orders and some are left as Automatic, then the ones that are left as Automatic will be ordered before any positive or non-numeric slide order, and after any negative slide order.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_slide_order
Slide Order Within Group
This parameter determines how slides are ordered when they have the same Slide Order Group By value.
If this is left as Automatic, then all the features going to the Microsoft PowerPoint Writer will be written to a presentation as slides in the same order they arrive. If a value is provided, then the features will be sorted by that value. Features with numeric values come before those with non-numeric values.
Automatic is actually the same as 0. If some slides are given orders and some are left as Automatic, then the ones that are left as Automatic will be ordered before any positive or non-numeric slide order, and after any negative slide order.
Format attribute set: powerpoint_sub_order
Additional References
For more information regarding PowerPoint styling, see the Microsoft PowerPoint Writer section in the FME Readers and Writers manual (in Workbench, select Help > FME Readers and Writers Reference)
Editing Transformer Parameters
Using a set of menu options, transformer parameters can be assigned by referencing other elements in the workspace. More advanced functions, such as an advanced editor and an arithmetic editor, are also available in some transformers. To access a menu of these options, click 
beside the applicable parameter. For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.
Defining Values
There are several ways to define a value for use in a Transformer. The simplest is to simply type in a value or string, which can include functions of various types such as attribute references, math and string functions, and workspace parameters. There are a number of tools and shortcuts that can assist in constructing values, generally available from the drop-down context menu adjacent to the value field.
How to Set Parameter Values
Using the Text Editor
The Text Editor provides a convenient way to construct text strings (including regular expressions) from various data sources, such as attributes, parameters, and constants, where the result is used directly inside a parameter.
Using the Arithmetic Editor
The Arithmetic Editor provides a convenient way to construct math expressions from various data sources, such as attributes, parameters, and feature functions, where the result is used directly inside a parameter.
Conditional Values
Set values depending on one or more test conditions that either pass or fail.
Parameter Condition Definition Dialog
Content
Expressions and strings can include a number of functions, characters, parameters, and more.
When setting values - whether entered directly in a parameter or constructed using one of the editors - strings and expressions containing String, Math, Date/Time or FME Feature Functions will have those functions evaluated. Therefore, the names of these functions (in the form @<function_name>) should not be used as literal string values.
Content Types
| These functions manipulate and format strings. | |
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Special Characters |
A set of control characters is available in the Text Editor. |
| Math functions are available in both editors. | |
| Date/Time Functions | Date and time functions are available in the Text Editor. |
| These operators are available in the Arithmetic Editor. | |
| These return primarily feature-specific values. | |
| FME and workspace-specific parameters may be used. | |
| Creating and Modifying User Parameters | Create your own editable parameters. |
Dialog Options - Tables
Transformers with table-style parameters have additional tools for populating and manipulating values.
Table Tools
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Row Reordering
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Enabled once you have clicked on a row item. Choices include:
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Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Enabled once you have clicked on a row item. Choices include:
Cut, copy, and paste may be used within a transformer, or between transformers. |
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Filter
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Start typing a string, and the matrix will only display rows matching those characters. Searches all columns. This only affects the display of attributes within the transformer - it does not alter which attributes are output. |
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Import
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Import populates the table with a set of new attributes read from a dataset. Specific application varies between transformers. |
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Reset/Refresh
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Generally resets the table to its initial state, and may provide additional options to remove invalid entries. Behavior varies between transformers. |
Note: Not all tools are available in all transformers.
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