Can you embed a Looker iframe in PowerPoint / Google Slides? (Community)

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Last tested: Sep 8, 2020
 

Looking for a solution to export a dashboard of visualizations to a Google Slide deck on their template. Below were the options I was able to outline. Spoiler alert: none are ideal.

• (1) Python Script
  • Overview
    • Allows you to take a template slide deck and push viz images onto them
  • Pros
    • Most complete, detailed solution
    • Works with Google Slides
    • Very automatic solution once complete - would scale well
  • Cons
    • Requires significant dev time to create the solution
    • Minor maintenance may be required to make changes over time
• (2) LiveSlides
  • Overview
    • Embed live visualizations into MS PPT presentation
  • Pros
    • Embed interactive visualizations into a PPT presentation
    • Very easy to get set up
    • Will update with live data with no work. No need to export images
  • Cons
    • Only available in MS PowerPoint
    • Cannot be exported to PDF
• (3) Use a webhook tool like Zapier
  • Overview
    • Use a tool like Zapier to send a visualization from Looker and place it on slides
  • Pros
    • Uses Google Slides
    • Could potentially allow you to update slides directly from Looker
  • Cons
    • Unproven method - haven't seen it implemented before
    • May need to create specific endpoints in Zapier for every image, which would be time consuming.