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What is the best or easiest way to export a Jira kanban board to a Microsoft PowerPoint slide?

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Hi Alexander,

There's no native "export board to PowerPoint" feature in Jira, so a few practical options depending on what you need:

1. Simple and quick, take a screenshot of the board and paste it into a slide. Fine for a one-off status update, though it's just a static snapshot, not live data.

2. Better quality, use browser print-to-PDF on the board view, then screenshot or crop from the PDF, tends to render cleaner than a raw screen capture, especially on wider boards.

3. If this is recurring, a Marketplace app like "Table Filter and Charts for Confluence" combined with Confluence's Jira macro can build a live board-style view, then you export that page to PDF or image, some teams link that into PowerPoint for semi-live embedding.

4. For something fully dynamic and always current, eazyBI or similar reporting apps can produce board-equivalent visuals, but it takes setup and isn't a one-click export.

If this is a regular reporting need rather than a one-off, might be worth checking if your team already has a Confluence-based status page workflow you could tie into instead of manually re-exporting each time.

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thank you Varun! This will be part of a recurring slide so I'm almost resigned to the fact that cutting-and-pasting a few lines in Jira from several cards in a kanban will be the past of least resistances... sigh.

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Totally get it, manual copy-paste is the path of least resistance short-term. Since you mentioned it's recurring though, it might be worth a one-time setup of the Confluence + Jira macro page (option 3), once it's built, it's just re-export instead of re-copying cards each time, could save you a lot of the repetitive pain down the line.

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That sounds like a constructive step. Is there any literature or how-to on how to step by step put together the macro and Step #3 in genera?

And second question, what's the best option if it's recurring but there will be some manual alterations to the deck slide and/or the UX of the kanban is different (and of course better) than what Jira/Atlassian can create in their UI?

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@Alexander Golden

If you can create a slide from a PDF, in other words the Jira -> PDF -> PowerPoint route works well for you, then make sure you check out the Better PDF Exporter app.

It is a good fit to your use case, because of these at least:

You can start the export directly from the a board!
It can export each work item on the Kanban board to the same PDF, but separate pages. It can be a time saver if you can create one PowerPoint slide from each PDF page.
It exports to PDF using a customizable PDF template. Basically you should configure the template to produce exactly the PDF you want to have on the slide (those and only those fields, formatting, visuals, etc.)

I hope this helps.

(This paid and supported app is developed by our team. Free for 10 users.)

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Interesting Aron, thank you. Here's a couple of additional wrinkles I'm trying to solve for that I would be interested to hear how you solve or if Better PDF can do:

1) There will need to be some changes or touch-ups to the powerpoint slide after the export. There may be many. Redoing the export each time may not be the ideal experience

2) More importantly, the destination ppt deck slide may be aligned content wise with the Jira Kanban but the UI/UX of it is different as we wanted some that was not the Jira kanban board UX

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