Crafting Presentations with Basic Slideshow

Crafting Presentations with Basic Slideshow

Often, you may want to add colorful data visualizations, to depict data trends in your presentations. A display of supporting factual aids, reports & dashboards on large TV screens, for a live view of important metrics and trends adds value to your presentation. This is made easy with Zoho Analytics. 

Permission Required 

This option is only available in the paid plans of Zoho Analytics. To learn how to subscribe to a paid plan, click the below button. 

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Zoho Analytics allows you to do this by publishing the views in your workspace as a slideshow. You can embed as well as create a permalink for the slideshow (to access it standalone) as needed. 

Creating a Sideshow

You can easily create a slideshow of your views in Zoho Analytics by following the steps given below.

  1. Open your Workspace. Navigate through  Settings icon  >  Slideshows.



    Alternatively, from the required view, you can click  Settings  >  Share  >  Slideshow .

  2. In the  Manage Slideshows  page that opens, click  Create Slideshow .
  3. The  Create Slideshow  dialog will open. Provide the following inputs:


    • Specify a  Slideshow Name .
    • Specify whether the slideshow should be accessed  With Login  or  Without Login  in the  Access Permission  option.
    • Select the views to be part of the slideshow from the  Select Views  list. The selected views will be listed in the field on the right. You can rearrange the views in the desired order by dragging the view names.
    • Select the  Basic slideshow  option in the  Choose slideshow type  section. Choose the  Advanced slideshow  option if you want to create compelling analytical stories using our online presentation service -  Zoho Show .
  4.   Click   Next . You will be navigated to the   Copy URL   page. From here you can perform the following:


    • You can preview your slideshow from the  Slideshow Preview  section.
    • You can set the  Slide interval , which mentions the duration between slide transitions.
    • You can specify whether the show needs to be auto-played using the option  Autoplay the Slideshow . This will be selected by default.
    • You can choose to  Include Title  and  Include Description  to add title and description in the slide show.
    • You can also choose to share the show in your social handles using the  Social Widgets  option
  5. Click  Close .

After creating the slideshow, you can access the URL in a browser. This will open a slideshow as shown in the illustration below.



On mouseover, a toolbar will appear with options to play/pause, change slide interval, set to full screen, and navigate to previous, next, or specific view in the list.

Viewing in Big Screen Mode

You can display the slide show on Large TV screens by setting this to full-screen mode. You can do this either using the option in the slide show toolbar or by using the standard full-screen short keys as follow.

  • Mac - Cmd+ Shift+F
  • Windows and Linux - F11

Managing Sideshows

  Zoho Analytics provides options to edit or delete the slideshows at any time in the  Manage Slideshow  page. You can modify your slideshow settings by following the below steps:

  1. From your Workspace, click  Settings icon  >  Slideshows . Or, click  Share  >  Slideshow  from any of the views in your Workspace.
  2. On the  Manage Slideshows  page that opens, you can perform the following actions:
    • Preview the slideshow using the  Play  button.


    • Get the URL of the existing show using the  Get Publish/Embed URL  icon.


    • Modify the slideshow using the  Edit  icon.

    • Remove a slideshow using the  Delete  icon.