Chart is not getting refreshed in Powerpoint presentation

[Tayyab Hussain]

Good Day,

I am trying to use Syncfusion.Presentation library in order to refresh a chart in Microsoft Powerpoint presentation (linked with Microsoft Excel) whenever data changes in Microsoft Excel. The code runs fins and produce the output file but doesn't refresh the chart. Instead, in the output file, it shows the chart empty. After initial analysis, i found that, output file created by code doesn't identify the range of data correctly. That's why, chart is being shown empty e.g. if in original file data range for chart is A12:C22, in the output file, this range is not being identified correctly and chart is shown as an empty chart. 

Code is given below

               //Opens the Presentation

                IPresentation pptxDoc = Presentation.Open(@"Path of original presentation");

                

                

                //Gets the first slide

                ISlide slide = pptxDoc.Slides[1];

                //Gets the chart in slide

                IPresentationChart chart = slide.Shapes[10] as IPresentationChart;

                //Refreshes the chart

                chart.Refresh();

                

                  

                //Saves the Presentation

                pptxDoc.Save(@"path of output file.");

                //Closes the Presentation

                pptxDoc.Close();

                MessageBox.Show("Done"); 

[Vijayasurya Anandhan]

Hi Tayyab,

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support.

At present our Essential PowerPoint presentation Library does not have support to the feature “Data changes in Microsoft Excel should automatically refresh the chart in the presentation slide” and also we do not have any immediate plans to implement this feature.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Vijayasurya A

[Tayyab Hussain]

Good Day,

Thank you for your reply and clarification.

However, just to clear one thing, i am not expecting that change in source data present in Microsoft Excel should "automatically" update the chart in presentation. 

What is required that chart in presentation should be updated upon an event e.g. timer event. I am able to grab the chart in presentation using Syncfusion library and refresh it in an event but it doesn't show the updated linked range upon refresh and shows an empty chart.

[Ramaraj Marimuthu]

Hi Tayyab,

Thank you for the update.

We have considered your requirement and modified the feature title as “Update the chart data from linked Excel sheet on refresh” and as we mentioned earlier currently we do not have any immediate plans to implement this feature in our end.

Please let us know if you need any further assistances.

Regards,
Ramaraj Marimuthu.