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All the topics, resources needed for Forsta Visualizations.

  • What Is a Storyteller?

    StoryTeller is the basis for dashboard design. Dashboards can contain any number of Slides, Charts, Images, Commentary, Videos, Tables, Animation, Media, clo...

  • How to Set up or Change the Layout of a Page?

    All dashboards have some sort of a structure – it is important to consider the layout of your dashboard first. When we click on the Layout Tab at the top we ...

  • Editable Powerpoint Exports - Storyteller

    Note: the editable PowerPoint export format is released as beta feature. All Administrator users get access to the functionality in end of Q3, to get early a...

  • What Options Are Available in the Storyteller?

    There are 4 main areas: Templates:  with the Template Library, you can save and store objects, groups of objects, slides, etc. to be reused in other projects...

  • What Is a Storyteller Slide?

    The StoryTeller slides can be arranged in number of ways using the slides group of functions, as shown in the image below. Here you can Add, Copy, Delete, Ar...

  • How to Manage Slides?

    Using Add slide button will add new slides to your StoryTeller. To copy a complete slide including all objects click the Copy button in the ribbon menu. The ...

  • Automatic Slide Generation

    StoryTeller’s Automatic Slide Generation feature creates presentation-ready topline reports in .ppt format with just a few clicks. These reports provide a hi...

  • Custom Template Sets For Automatic Slide Generation

    1: Saving and Managing Template SetsCustom template sets let you reuse specific layouts across projects. A template set works across all projects and includ...

  • How to Move Objects?

    The context menu of the objects contains several objects that enable precise positioning and adjustment of objects. This allows you to enter the exact size ...

  • How to Change the Size or Position of the Toolbar?

    A toolbar in StoryTeller will help you to work with the objects more efficiently. See an example of the toolbar below.You can now find all of these settings ...

  • StoryTeller - Summary Objects

    The Summary object is a new feature in StoryTeller that uses AI to quickly summarize open-ended survey responses. It can also highlight your most positive an...

  • What Is Your Object Panel?

    An object panel makes the setup work more efficiently, especially when it comes to slides that have many objects. The image below shows the new object panel....

  • How to Edit an Object?

    There are two ways of editing when working with objects in StoryTeller: You can double-click on an object to enter edit mode. The object ID, Edit button, Men...

  • How to Turn On/Off the Borders of the Objects?

    You are able to turn off object borders. This makes it much easier to see the results from an end user perspective during the setup of the StoryTeller. When ...

  • How to Add Smart Guidelines to Slides to Get My Objects Better Aligned?

    A “smart guidelines” function helps you easily align objects with each other when moving an object. This function is similar to PowerPoint, how guidelines ap...

  • What Are the Report Export Options?

    StoryTeller report can be exported to PPT, Excel, and print. The export to PPT and print are always available and Excel could be turned on or off. There is a...

  • How to Add a Background to My Slide?

    A “Slide background mode” is used to add objects that will be shown on every slide such as footers, logos or shapes that are used to color the slide backgrou...

  • How to Activate the Object Export to Excel?

    The result from a single chart and table can be exported into an Excel table in a similar way as the result of a Respondent table can be exported to Excel. ...

  • How to Use My Favorite Filters?

    Report users have the ability to save their own personal favorite settings in the Optional Filter area* in the report. In projects with many Optional F...

  • How to Adjust the Template for the Export of the Storyteller Charts?

    You can upload a PowerPoint template, which can either be a true template (POT or POTX) or just a regular PowerPoint presentation (PPT or PPTX), to the ...

  • How to Influence the Base Size?

    The base size in the calculations in Forsta Visualizations is based on the Distinct respondent ID. To be able to handle transactional data (like sales data o...

  • What Is a Drilldown Report?

    The Drilldown report allows a user to click a datapoint in a StoryTeller chart/table to drill into the details of the respondents behind that data point. The...

  • How to Set up a Drilldown Report?

    The following steps are followed to add a drilldown view to a data object in the StoryTeller :Add a new Drilldown report to your portal. This is done in the ...

  • Storyteller - Exclude Slides by Hierarchy Filter Units

    In setups where StoryTeller report contains a hierarchical filter option exists to specify slides to be excluded (hidden) for certain units. In the following...

  • Tag Support for Streamlined Custom Code

    An object-level tag concept is introduced which simplifies the usage of custom JavaScript and CSS code to be applied to StoryTeller objects. The CSS and Java...

  • Creating Slide Layout Templates

    In StoryTeller, you can create slide layout templates by uploading a PowerPoint layout master template. This new function simplifies the process of matching ...

  • Slide Panel: How to Organize Your Slides?

    What is the Slide Panel?The Slide Panel provides a detailed overview of StoryTeller reports and simplifies their setup. Note: The Slide Panel is displayed in...