Display a Slideshow of charts and dashboards

You can display a Slideshow of charts and dashboards in full-screen mode on your computer.

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition, you can also publish the Slideshow to HTML files. This allows an unlimited number of users to access these files, without requiring additional GainSeeker seats.

 

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Getting Started

When you have one or more chart and/or dashboard windows open in the GainSeeker Charts module, you can easily view all of these open windows as a Slideshow by clicking the Desktop menu and then clicking Slideshow.

This will display the Slideshow Options window:

Slideshow Options

Show each chart for n seconds

This is the number of seconds to display one chart or dashboard before automatically changing to display the next chart or dashboard.

While the Slideshow is playing, you can immediately display the previous chart or the next chart by pressing the Left Arrow key or Right Arrow key on your keyboard. But if you do not press one of these arrow keys or stop the Slideshow (by clicking the mouse or pressing other keys), then the Slideshow will always wait this number of seconds before displaying the next chart.

Refresh all charts every n minutes

This is the number of minutes after which the Slideshow will refresh all the charts and dashboards with the latest data, re-draw all of the charts and dashboards, and recalculate all the statistics.

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition and publish the Slideshow to HTML files, refreshing analysis windows will also update all the HTML files with the latest data, statistics, and images.

Transition Animation and Wipe direction

You can display animation effects when the Slideshow changes from one chart or dashboard window to the next:

HTML Transition effect

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition and publish the Slideshow to HTML files, you can configure those files to display animation effects when the HTML Slideshow changes from one chart or dashboard window to the next:

If you do not have GainSeeker Server Edition, this setting is unavailable.

Location to store HTML files

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition, you can publish the Slideshow to HTML files. This allows an unlimited number of users to access these files, without requiring additional GainSeeker seats.

You can click the button to browse to the desired path and folder, or you can type the path and folder name. Do not put a backslash (\) at the end of the path.

HTML files will be named ss01.htm , ss02.htm , etc. They will remain in this folder until overwritten by another Slideshow.

If you do not have GainSeeker Server Edition, this setting is unavailable.

Slideshow command line parameters

If you create a Windows shortcut that automatically opens charts, opens a dashboard, or opens a desktop, you can modify that shortcut to automatically create a Slideshow for the analysis windows being opened by the shortcut.

As you change the settings in the Slideshow Options window, this box will update to display the command-line parameters for those settings. You can simply copy the contents of this Slideshow command line parameters box and paste them into the command line of a Windows shortcut that already opens analysis windows.

Creating the Slideshow

Manually

After adjusting the settings in the Slideshow Options window, you can click Start Slideshow to begin the full-screen Slideshow with the first analysis window you opened. If you have GainSeeker Server Edition, clicking Start Slideshow will also publish the Slideshow to HTML files.

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition and prefer to publish the files without viewing the Slideshow, click Save HTML Files. If the Location to store HTML files box is blank, this button is unavailable.

Windows shortcut

If desired, you can create a Windows shortcut that automatically opens charts, opens a dashboard, or opens a desktop and then creates the Slideshow for those charts.

If you have GainSeeker Server Edition, you can also set options for automatically publishing that Slideshow to HTML files.

Viewing the Slideshow

Slides in GainSeeker

*The Alt, Shift, Ctrl, Tab, Caps Lock, Left Arrow, and Right Arrow keys will not stop the Slideshow.

HTML files in a web browser (Server Edition only)

Note on Python Designer Dashboard Controls

When displaying a Python Designer dashboard control in a slideshow, GainSeeker will delay up to 10 seconds for the Python script to finish executing.