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Help PowerDash 1.1

See also the Wiki Markup Format in PowerDash.

1. Account Management

New Account Assists in creating a new account.
Login Opens a new session.
Logout Terminates a session.

2. Presentation Operations

The following operations can be performed on the presentation:

Load a presentation.
Save the current presentation.
Opens the Presentation Options Dialog (Naming, size, background, etc.).
Opens the online help (this document).
Opens an outline in a new window suitable for printing and deep linking.
Opens a slideshow in a new window.

3. Slide Operations

The following operations can be performed on the slides of a presentation:

Browse the slides
Create a slide before the current slide
Create a slide after the current slide
Delete the current slide

4. Shape Operations

The following operations can be performed on the shapes of a slide:

Insert a rectangular shape or an image shape
Click Select shape
Shift Click Add shape to selection
Mouse Move and scale a selection of shapes
Copy a selection of shapes
Cut a selection of shapes
Paste a selection of shapes
Raise a selection of shapes to the top
Lower a selection of shapes to the bottom
Connect two selected shapes
Double Click Edit the properties of a shape or a connector and edit its text and captions through Wiki Markup Formating.

5. Image Management

Open Image Management Console

Powerdash offers a per user image database. Image shapes can be created by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail.

Add your own images to the database using the Media Manager.

Field Name Description Optional
Media Name Unique name in the users space for the image no
Primary The location of the high resolution image file to upload. This should be of type PNG. no
Alternative The location of a substitute high resolution image file to upload. This image must be of type GIF and is displayed in case the browser does not handle transparent PNGs (i.e. IExplorer 6) yes
Thumbnail The location of a thumbnail low resolution image file to upload. This image is displayed by the Image Management Console itself, or can be referenced by wiki markup. yes

6. Import and Export

Open Import/Export Console.

7. Runtime Management

Open the Runtime Management Console.

8. Framing a Single Slide

You can embed a slide into a web-page using the native instructions of the page language. Use your browsers Copy Link Location on the Page # hyperlinks in outline mode to get a deep link to a specific slide. The following diagramm is an embedded slide:
Plain HTML
<iframe src="outline?id=Sample1234&pageNumber=1" width="800" height="400" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Confluence Wiki
{frame:src="outline?id=Sample1234&pageNumber=1|width="800"|height="400"|scrolling="no"}

9. Bookmark the Editable Presention

Use your browsers Copy Link Location on the Edit hyperlinks in outline mode to get a permanent link to the editable slide.

10. Known Issues

  • Safari Version 3.0 (on MS-Windows) does not cache the account name, as this version does not support cookies at all.
  • IExplorer Version 6 can be very slow, please consider upgrading to a higher version.

11. Missing Features

Upcoming releases of PowerDash will include these features (vote for your favorite):

  • More shape types
  • Animation
  • Support for SVG (scalable vector graphics) shapes
  • Team support (Locking, merging, diffs)

12. Credits

Many of the icons are from the Tango Desktop Project

Last build on Mon Jan 05 21:11:36 CET 2009