Each UpSlide customization update is delivered in a .UpSlide file. As an administrator you use them either to export changes you made to your team OR you may be installing an update delivered by your UpSlide Consultant to test before sharing with your team.
Export a .UpSlide customization file and share it with your team
- Open Settings -> Customization, and check the Use team settings box to retrieve your Shared folder.
- Click on Export my modifications and name your export.
- The UpSlide add-in will start uploading the content and display a success popup when it has successfully uploaded to the folder.
- Users will now be able to see this content displayed in Available Content.
- The UpSlide add-in will download and install it automatically when users restart all their Office applications.
- If it doesn't, please check our troubleshooting article.
Manually install a .UpSlide file on your computer
- Make sure you close all PPT, Excel and Word applications
- Place the .UpSlide file in a folder of your choice
- Open one PowerPoint presentation, open Settings and go to the Customization tab.
- Uncheck Use team settings and set the path you placed the .UpSlide file in the text box (in the red box below)
- Wait until the .UpSlide file is shown in the Available content box, select it and click on Install.
- Wait for UpSlide add-in to install the content. A notification will ask you to restart the application.
- Close all Microsoft Office applications. After closing all PowerPoint, Excel and Word windows re-open only PowerPoint.
- You should receive a popup (as you are an Administrator) explaining that accepting this update will remove any local changes you have made.
- Click Ok and wait for it to install. If a popup does not appear, try restarting it again only open PowerPoint.
- To check the .UpSlide customization file has been installed, go back to Settings -> Customization.
- The Available content Status column should now display "Last installed".
