An Aha! presentation is the clearest way to share your roadmaps, reports, and other information from Aha! with your audience — as a secure webpage, a PDF, or during a live presentation. Because every slide is connected to the data in your account, your audience always sees the latest reality, and you decide when to publish updates.
Start with a blank canvas or add a view from nearly any page in Aha! Roadmaps, then shape the story with text, shapes, images, live fields, and Aha! views. Draft slides faster with Elle, the AI assistant, and keep your talking points close with speaker notes and a dedicated presenter view. Real-time collaboration means your team can build the deck together.
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Create a presentation
To start with a blank canvas, navigate to Roadmaps -> Library -> Presentations and click Create new presentation. The slide editor opens so you can begin adding slides.
You can also create a presentation starting from a view on nearly any page in Aha! Roadmaps:
Click the Share menu in the top-right corner and select Add to presentation.
In the Add to presentation window, choose Existing presentation or Create new presentation and enter the required information.
Click Add to presentation.
Edit your slides
The slide editor is the heart of the presentation experience. The main toolbar sits across the top of the editor and includes the Add Aha! view and Add slide buttons, zoom controls, and drawing tools — including Pointer, Text, Shapes, Connector, Pen, Rich text, Image, and Elle (the AI assistant).
From the top toolbar you can:
View your presentation in either the Slide editor or Grid view.
Open the Settings dropdown to Configure interactive views, Enable slide transition animations, or set an autoplay duration in seconds.
Insert Aha! views from nearly any page in Aha! Roadmaps using the Add Aha! view button, and choose which fields are visible on record views.
Add a new slide.
Undo or redo your last edit.
Zoom your slide in or out.
Select different tools, from mouse Pointer, to adding rich Text, Shapes, Stickies, Connectors, freeform drawing, and Images.
Ask Elle to draft slide content, add shapes, format slides, or generate images. Open Elle from the toolbar or from the right panel.
From the expandable right panel you can:
View and resolve Comments. Multiple users can edit the same slide simultaneously
Ask Elle to draft slide content, add shapes, format slides, or generate images.
View and change presentation Themes.
View the edit History for the presentation.
Position elements precisely with numeric X/Y values in the Format options menu.
Toggle between Slide editor and Grid view using the view controls in the top-left corner. Grid view shows large thumbnails of all your slides and lets you drag and drop to reorder them. Double-click a slide in grid view to open it in the slide editor.
Apply a presentation theme
Presentation themes standardize branding — backgrounds, headers, footers, and text styles — across every presentation that uses them. Workspace owners manage themes in User menu -> Settings -> Workspace -> Presentation themes, and any user in the workspace can apply an available theme from the Themes tab in the right panel of the slide editor.
Themes created at a parent workspace line are inherited by every child workspace, so you can brand an entire portfolio once. Create and manage presentation themes in workspace settings, or apply a theme from the slide editor.
Publish your presentation
Publish your presentation as a secure webpage, PDF, or a Microsoft Powerpoint file, depending on how your audience needs to consume it. To do this, click the Share button in the top right:
A secure webpage creates a live, read-only link you can protect with a password, enhanced security, and interactive view options.
A PDF export produces a downloadable document, optimized for Viewing in a browser or Printing, breaking the presentation into multiple pages if necessary.
A .ppt export generates a Microsoft PowerPoint file of the Aha! views in your presentation as PNG images (and no other slide content). Click Generate powerpoint to create this export, or Update to generate an update with the latest Aha! data.
Deliver your presentation
You can publish your presentation to share it with your audience. If you plan to present it to them yourself, use the presenter view.
To do this, click the Present dropdown in the slide editor and select Presenter view to see your current slide, next slide, a presentation timer, and speaker notes. Your audience will see only the slide. Select Start from beginning (⌘+Shift+Enter) to present from slide one.
Both experiences maintain a 16:9 aspect ratio. Black bars may appear to preserve that ratio on wider or taller screens.
Press Escape (ESC) to exit the presentation view.
Manage presentation access
Click More options (...) in the upper right of a presentation to manage the presentation itself:
Edit presentation details: Adjust the presentation title (both internal and Public title), Description, and where it is Saved in your Aha! account.
Manage collaborators: Collaborators have access to view and edit the presentation.
Delete presentation webpage: Remove a shared webpage if you no longer need it.
Duplicate presentation: Copy your presentation to use as a starting point for a new one. Copies include all slides, collaborators, and to-dos.
Delete presentation: Delete the presentation itself. If you do this in error, check the recycle bin in your account settings to restore it.