If you own a Master file in Slidebank, there are controls to help ensure colleagues use your slides as intended...
Controls include:
Grouping slides together, to...
Ensure they are selected and presented in a certain sequence, for example to tell a particular story
Mandate the inclusion of certain slides in slide selections, for example a disclaimer slide that must accompany a product slide
Lock down slide content, to help prevent slides being edited in PowerPoint
To Group some slides together:
Open a Master proesentation then hold down the 'shift' or 'control' key and select the slides you want to add to a Group - the slides you have selected will now be outlined in red.
Next, release the shift and/or control keys.
Click on the 'slide options' (dots) menu on one of the selected slides and click 'Group Slides'.
When the 'Group Slides' panel pops up, give your Group a name, then select a colour for your group by clicking the Group Colour panel.
There may be more than one group in a presentation, so it is useful to give them different names and colours...
Next, choose Fixed/Unfixed and/or Mandatory Group Types as follows...
Fixed or Unfixed
Determines whether your group of slides are fixed in a particular order. If not Fixed, users can add other slides in between Grouped slides.
If a slide slide Group is Fixed, its slides always remain in that same fixed sequence. This means that...Adding one slide from the group to a slide Selection, will add the entire fixed group to the selection.
Removing one slide from a Fixed Group in you selection deletes the entire Group.
Attempting to add a new slide to a fixed Group in your selection will not break up the group. Instead, the new slide will be placed just before or just after the Group, not inside it.
Mandatory
'Mandatory' means that...Any 'Mandatory Group' slides will be automatically added to your selection the moment you select the first slide.
Mandatory slide Groups are useful when legal disclaimers, terms & conditions etc. must be included.
Mandatory groups can be removed from your selection, but only after all other slides have been removed first.
To remove a slide from the group, click the 'Dot' menu at the top of a Grouped Master slide and click 'Remove Slide from Group'...
To ungroup the slides, click the 'Dot' menu at the top of a Grouped Master slide and click 'Ungroup'...
Note:
You can create multiple groups within a single presentation but their slides cannot overlap. In other words, slides cannot belong to more than one Group.
A Group cannot include slides from different presentation files.
If you want to mandate the inclusion of certain slides across the whole of Slidebank (not presentation-specific), your Administrator can create a 'Core Deck' of slides.
Locking the content of slides
If you want to make it difficult for users to edit the content of your slides in PowerPoint after downloading, you can lock down their content in one of two ways...
JPEG method
During the download process, slide have their content removed and replaced with a single JPEG image that looks like the slide, making it more difficult to edit their content using PowerPoint.
This is a traditional way of locking slide content but, it is not imposible to add a new PowerPoint object over the top of the JPEG picture. What's more, the slide content is no longer a pin-sharp vector object, but a bitmap instead, which may appear pixelated when blown up on a big screen.
Object method
Using this method, all PowerPoint slide content, such as charts, images, text boxes, video clips etc. remain on the slide. However, during the download process the slide objects are locked, with the reult that the normal editable bounding boxes do not appear in PowerPoint, making it difficult to make changes.
Slide objects still work as intended despite being locked this way, so video clips still play and animated sequences still work.
'Object' slides are an easy way to make slides 'read-only', without having to turn the entire file into a PDF to help protect its content...
Lock down slides as follows:
First, you need to be a presentation owner, an Administrator or have been granted file editing permission to do this.
Click on the padlock icon underneath the slide(s) you want to protect.
Select 'JPEG' or 'Objects' as the locked slide type. You can hold down shift or control to select multiple slides, then apply the lock to many at the same time.
Once downloaded, a presentation or slide selection will be locked for all users, unless they have updating rights for that file.
If you are an Administrator, or if you have been granted updating rights for that file, you will still be able to edit the slides in PowerPoint after downloading.
Administrators should impersonate a less-privileged user to check the settings.