Importing Metadata into Copied Slides or Presentations

Cloud data source types: Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Essbase, Planning, Planning Modules, Narrative Reporting, Financial Consolidation and Close, Tax Reporting, Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis

On-premises data source types: Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Reporting and Analysis

Before you begin, be sure to review the content in Importing Metadata in Office Applications.

Note:

This operation cannot be undone.

To import metadata into a PowerPoint slide or presentation:

1. Back up your work.
2. From the Smart View ribbon, select Options, then Advanced, and ensure that Improved Metadata Storage is selected.
3. Use the PowerPoint copy command to copy information in any of the ways supported by PowerPoint; for example:

   • Copy individual objects and paste to the destination slide. The destination slide could be a part of source presentation or different presentation.

   • Duplicate a slide.

   • Copy a complete slide and paste into the same presentation or a different one.

   • Drag any slide and drop to another presentation.

   • Copy and paste an entire presentation.

   This operation copies the visible contents of the source slides but not the metadata—for example, connection information, POV selections, alias tables, and other such items—to the destination slide or presentation.

4. With the destination slide or presentation active, from the Smart View ribbon, click Import Metadata, .
5. In the Select slide dialog box, select the slide or presentation that contains the metadata that you want to import to the destination slide or presentation, and then click Import.

   Note that importing metadata from a presentation may be a time consuming operation, particularly for presentations with large number of slides and Oracle Smart View for Office metadata.

   In the following example, Slide21 from Department Reports.pptx is the slide from which we want to import metadata.

   
   
   

   Note:

   When importing metadata from a slide to the active slide, the active slide is not shown in the tree in the Select slide dialog box. This is because the active slide is the destination slide where metadata is to be imported and is, therefore, not available for selection. For the same reason, when importing metadata from a presentation to the active presentation, the Import button is disabled when the active presentation is selected in the Select slide dialog box.

   A confirmation message is displayed.

   
   
   
6. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog box.
7. Refresh.

   When successful, you will see that the Document Contents pane is updated with metadata for each slide. An example is shown in Figure 17-12.

   Figure 17-12 Document Contents Pane After Importing Metadata