Branded PowerPoint Deck skill
The Branded PowerPoint Deck skill is an organization skill in the Optimizely Opal Skills Directory. It reads your organization's master PowerPoint template one time and creates a permanent deck-building skill. The skill generates presentations with your exact colors, fonts, and layouts.
The skill applies to everyone in your organization when you choose Organization during configuration. Creating an organization skill requires the Manage Skills permission.
Skill details
The following details apply to this skill:
- Shortcut – /branded-powerpoint-deck
- Type – Organization skill
What the skill does
The skill does the following:
- Reads your organization's master PowerPoint template once, including every slide, color, font, and layout.
- Creates a second, permanent organization skill that builds presentations from your template. The skill you install does not build decks. It creates the second skill that does.
- After configuration, anyone in your organization can use the generated skill. It builds a deck from a brief, rebrands an existing deck, or adds slides without changing existing ones.
Before you begin
Confirm the following before you install the skill:
- You must have the Manage Skills permission to install this skill. If you do not, click Request in the Skills Directory to ask an administrator to install it.
- Your master template must be a .pptx file. Opal does not change your original template.
- Have your answers and files ready. Opal asks for them during configuration.
Information Opal asks for
Opal asks for the following during configuration. Skip optional items if you do not need them.
- Master Template – Your organization's master PowerPoint template as a .pptx file. If Opal cannot find a .pptx file, configuration stops and tells you.
- (Optional) Deck Specifics and Notes – Anything the template does not display, such as rules for when to use each layout.
Install the skill
Go to Directory > Skills, find Branded PowerPoint Deck, and click Install. In the Setup required dialog, click Set up in chat. Opal asks who the skill is for, Myself (Personal) or Organization. Opal then asks whether to answer the remaining questions in chat or upload a document. For the full procedure, see Install a skill that needs configuration.
Use the skill
After configuration, build decks with the generated skill, not with the Branded PowerPoint Deck skill. During configuration, Opal suggests a name and shortcut for the generated skill, such as Optimizely PowerPoint Template and /optimizely-deck. Enter that shortcut in Opal Chat to run the generated skill on demand. Opal also applies it automatically when your request matches its When to use conditions. Try prompts like the following:
- Build a 12-slide on-brand deck for our Q3 business review.
- Rebrand this existing deck onto our template.
- Add three slides to the deck we built last week.
Things to know
Keep the following in mind:
- Opal delivers decks as .pptx files only.
- The generated deck skill is live for everyone in your organization when configuration finishes.
Update the skill
When Optimizely publishes an updated version, Update displays on the skill's card in the Skills Directory. Opal keeps the information you provided during configuration and asks only for anything the updated version adds. To correct answers that are no longer accurate, edit the installed skill. See Update a skill and Manage skills.
Note
If you use Opti ID, administrators can turn off generative AI in the Opti ID Admin Center. See Turn generative AI off across Optimizely applicationsTurn generative AI off across Optimizely applications.