Power BI to PowerPoint - Deploy the link to your users

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Written by Romain | Updated

Pre-requisites

Important
Your reports need to be hosted on Microsoft Servers to be accessible by UpSlide. This feature won't be available if:
  • you are using Power BI Desktop only, and thus do not publish any reports online
  • you are using PowerBI Report Server (also called On-Premises)
  • you are using PowerBI Governance

Authorize access to Power BI through UpSlide

UpSlide needs the user's consent for the Power BI to PowerPoint feature to work. As an organisation admin, you can grant consent to Power BI resources for all users. Please follow all the steps explained in this article: Power BI Integration - Grant consent to all users

How does it work

UpSlide’s Power BI to PowerPoint feature is powered by a web browser, Chromium, which is embedded into UpSlide using a wrapper called Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). Chromium is used within UpSlide to:

  • display Power BI reports
  • take screenshots of visuals or report pages
  • display some user interface components to provide a smoother experience

Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop app also uses CEF for the same purpose. Chromium is only used to execute trusted content, which are either web assets embedded within UpSlide’s signed binaries or provided by Microsoft Power BI Embedded platform.

Important
This feature does not require UpSlide to access to your data and UpSlide does not store the data being displayed in PowerPoint. This means all your data remains within your organization.
Note
UpSlide's auto-update system will download and install the appropriate version on first use of the feature. If autoupdate is deactivated you will need to ask for a new setup to use this feature. To include CEF binaries in UpSlide’s setup package, we will need to know your PowerPoint version (either 32-bit or 64-bit).