Creating & Managing Presentations
Presentations are a type of Resource that let you manage PowerPoint content alongside your ROI Models and other sales collateral.
After uploading a PowerPoint presentation, you can manage its slides within Ekphrastic and include ROI Models as part of the presentation.
Upload a Presentation
Presentations are created by uploading an existing PowerPoint file.
From My Resources & Sales Collateral:
Select + New.
Choose the Presentation option.
Select a
.pptxfile.Confirm the upload.
Wait for Ekphrastic to process the presentation.
The maximum individual file size is 300 MB.
During processing, the Presentation may display Processing... in your workspace.
When processing completes successfully, the Presentation is automatically published and becomes available for use.
What happens during processing
Ekphrastic processes the uploaded PowerPoint so that its slides can be used within the platform.
You don't need to manually create each slide after uploading the presentation.
Once processing is complete, you can open the Presentation's slide-management tools to work with its content.
If processing fails, Ekphrastic notifies you and the failed Presentation may be removed automatically.
For upload troubleshooting, see Resource Upload & Processing Problems.
Manage Presentation slides
Presentations have additional management capabilities that aren't required for ordinary PDF or Video Resources.
Open the Presentation's slide-management area when you want to work with its individual slides.
From here, you can manage the content and structure of the Presentation without treating the entire PowerPoint as a single fixed item.
Reorder slides
You can change the order of slides within a Presentation.
Use the slide-management controls to arrange the slides in the sequence you want them to appear.
This lets you adapt the flow of the Presentation after it has been uploaded to Ekphrastic.
Add an ROI Model to a Presentation
Ekphrastic allows an ROI Model to be included within a Presentation.
This lets you combine presentation content with an interactive ROI experience rather than treating the model and presentation as completely separate pieces of sales collateral.
When adding an ROI Model, select the model you want to include from your available content.
The original ROI Model remains independently available in My ROI Models & Calculators.
Adding it to a Presentation does not create a new independent copy of the model.
Managing an embedded ROI Model
An ROI Model included within a Presentation remains linked to that model rather than becoming ordinary PowerPoint content.
This is useful when considering how your content is organised:
The Presentation controls where the model appears in the presentation sequence.
The ROI Model remains managed from your Models workspace.
The model remains available for independent use elsewhere in Ekphrastic.
If you no longer want the model included in the Presentation, remove it from the Presentation rather than deleting the underlying ROI Model.
Duplicate a Presentation
You can duplicate a Presentation when you want to create an independent copy.
When a Presentation is duplicated, its presentation slides are also copied into the new Presentation.
The duplicate becomes a separate Resource that you can manage independently.
Existing tracked share links and Buyer Engagement history are not transferred to the duplicate.
Replace a Presentation
Use Replace when you want to update the underlying PowerPoint file while keeping the existing Presentation Resource.
Because Presentations contain processed slide content, allow Ekphrastic to process the replacement file before using the updated Presentation.
If Replace is unavailable, check whether the Resource is currently being used in a way that prevents replacement.
For general replacement behaviour, see Managing Resources.
Preview a Presentation
Use Preview to view the published Presentation.
Presentations are automatically published after successful upload processing, so Preview is normally available once processing has completed.
If the Presentation is unpublished, workspace Preview is unavailable until it is published again.
For more information, see Publishing Content.
Share a Presentation
Presentations can be shared directly without being added to a Collection.
Use Share when you want to provide someone with a link to the Presentation.
Choose:
Tracked sharing when you want supported activity to appear in Buyer Engagement.
Untracked sharing when you only need to provide access to the Presentation.
For more information, see Sharing Content and Tracked vs Untracked Links.
Add a Presentation to a Collection
Presentations can also be included in Collections alongside other Resources and ROI Models.
Adding a Presentation to a Collection does not move or duplicate the original Presentation.
It remains independently available in your Resources workspace and can be reused in other Collections.
For more information, see Adding & Organising Collection Content.
Delete a Presentation
Deleting a Presentation permanently removes that Presentation Resource.
Before deleting it, Ekphrastic may require you to remove relationships with other content where dependencies exist.
Deletion can also remove associated tracked links and Buyer Engagement history.
If you only want to remove the Presentation from its published state, use Unpublish instead of deleting it.
Presentation actions at a glance
Add a PowerPoint to Ekphrastic
Upload Presentation
Change the order of slides
Slide Management
Include an ROI Model
Add ROI Model
Create an independent copy
Duplicate
Update the underlying PowerPoint
Replace
View the published Presentation
Preview
Send the Presentation to someone
Share
Include it with other content
Add to Collection
Permanently remove it
Delete
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