Content Formats: The Basics

The Content Catalyst platform is compatible with a range of content formats

Content Catalyst support seven different types of content. This is a quick introduction to each type.

Interactive Reports
PDF Viewer and PowerPoint Viewer
Briefings
Data Products - DataViewer and Power BI
News Feeds
Download Only Reports
Video

Interactive Reports

Source - MS Word (doc/docx)

🔔 NOTE: it is possible to use other formats (e.g PDF) provided they go through Word as an intermediate stage in the upload process.

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Features

In-report searching
Copy to clippings function – for later reading, sharing, or to allow users to build bespoke reports of their own from multiple sources
Download to Microsoft Office and PDF
Easy translation to nine different languages
Interactive table of contents
Facility to filter content to only show charts or tables
Facility to embed interactive charts and tables
Compare option to view two sections side-by-side

Find out how to set up an Interactive Report

Briefings

Source - MS Word (doc, docx)

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Features

Briefings are summary reports, often just a single page, to provide deeper insight and analysis that is available through a news report
Delivered the same way as interactive reports
They can support multiple content formats; however, they have no landing page or content summary.
Email friendly - can be sent as a one pager.
Supports instant access links.

Find out how to create a Briefing

PDF Viewer and PowerPoint Viewer Reports

Source - PDF and PowerPoint

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Features

In-report searches
Quick and easy upload process
Easy navigation between pages via the side bar
Full screen mode
Users can add pages or selected snippets to clippings
Download pages to PowerPoint
Previews of pages with matching terms on search page

Find out how to set up a PDF Report

Find out how to set up a PowerPoint Report

DataViewer Products

Source - MS Excel (flat data)

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Features

Filtering functionality
Pivot functionality
Bar, Line and Pie charts
Add to clippings
Save to My Library
Export to Excel

Find out how to set-up a Dataviewer Product

Power BI Products

It is easy to pull through data and analysis from PowerBI into your Content Catalyst system.

To publish a "public" PowerBI report or dashboard, you can do this in the same way as other content not hosted on your Content Catalyst site via our External Report feature, using the parameters supplied in the share link.

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