In order to embed a Sisense dashboard into a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, the following steps are required.

Installation:

1. Install the "LiveWeb" add-on on the PC running the PowerPoint presentation.

• With LiveWeb you can display acrobat documents (PDF) , java applets, VRML within the slide show real-time.
• Please visit: LiveWeb FAQ for more information and installation instructions.
• Live Web Download can be found at: http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm
• Please make sure you install the proper version according to the PowerPoint version (97-2003 / 2007 - 2010).
• Note: The LiveWeb add-on is a 3rd party SW and is not developed or supported by Sisense.

2. After completing the installation, the following LiveWeb ribbon objects should appear in your PowerPoint toolbar:

3. In order to add a live Sisense dashboard to a slide, click on the "Web Page" button in the LiveWeb ribbon - This will open a step-by-step wizard.
4. Add the web page address of the dashboard you would like to access.

• Make sure not to omit the "http://www…" part of the URL.

• Note: The server running the PowerPoint slideshow must have access to the dashboard (in case a firewall is in place, please create the appropriate rules to allow access to the ElastiCube server).
• Follow the wizard steps and click "Finish". Your dashboard should now appear as part of your PowerPoint slideshow.

Additional Issues and Solutions:

1. If you encounter an error regarding ActiveX controls, caused due to enhanced security features introduced in Office 2013, the following link contains a workaround to the issue:
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2793374

2. By default, Microsoft PowerPoint runs URLs using Internet Explorer 7.

Since the Sisense dashboard requires a HTML5 supported browser to run properly (e.g. IE10 and up), the following can be done to fix this issue:

If you have access to the Sisense server itself:

The default rendering in the web browser control is IE7. If you have access to the server, you can change that by setting a meta tag on the html page to target the desired version of IE. Set the tag <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=x" > in the HTML page you're showing. Replace x with the version number of IE you want to target. This forces the control to use the specified version.

If you do not have access to the server:

You can still set the compatibility local to the machine which will render the slideshow. Create the following registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]

"PowerPnt.exe"=dword:00001f40

Now launch PowerPoint and the web browser control will render in the mode you target. I've assigned the hex value to use IE8.0 above.

From <http://skp.mvps.org/livewebfaq.htm>