GSlides in IIS

[rr_dRock]

Not 100% sure this goes here, but eh.

 

So here's my conundrum.

 

I have a user using the Sedna Presenter software to populate his TV's in the school with content.

 

You can specify a web address to pull content from. He is using google docs to make gslides that show up every few seconds.

This is causing massive network usage, as his slides change 75000 times a day. (seriously. We logged it)

 

So we've tried a few different ways of getting the gslides to display from local paths, but nothing works, it won't even call the file to attempt to present it.

 

So I set up a local IIS box, and plopped the gslide in a folder, set up a MIME handler, and the file downloads fine, but won't display properly.

I'm assuming this is because there is no standard for presenting gslides in a browser.

 

Does anyone know of a way to play a gslide locally, without it calling to the internet for content?

[redavenger]

Wouldn't it just be easier to convert the slides to Powerpoint? I don't think IIS is going to work as you need all of the backend processing on the servers that spit out the JavaScript that makes the Gslide work...

 

Good luck!

[rr_dRock]

Wouldn't it just be easier to convert the slides to Powerpoint? I don't think IIS is going to work as you need all of the backend processing on the servers that spit out the JavaScript that makes the Gslide work...

 

Good luck!

 

That's what I figured. Althogh attempting to view a slide in the browser from a pptx is also proving tedious.  Attempting to explain that to a user has proven to be near impossible. Apparently the idea that a web application runs the slide in the browser doesn't make sense to them lol.

 

Thanks!