dac export

Export dashboards to external formats. Currently supports Google Slides.

dac export slides

Export a dashboard to a Google Slides presentation. Queries are executed, charts are rendered as images, and everything is assembled into slides.

dac export slides [flags]

Flags

Flag	Alias	Type	Default	Description
--dashboard	-n	string	required	Dashboard name
--credentials		string		Path to Google OAuth credentials.json
--filters		string		JSON string with filter overrides
--dir	-d	string	.	Dashboard definitions directory

Authentication

The command authenticates with Google APIs in this order:

1. gcloud Application Default Credentials (recommended) — works if you've run:

   gcloud auth application-default login \
     --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/presentations,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

2. Credentials file — pass --credentials path/to/credentials.json, or place it at ~/.dac/credentials.json

Prerequisites

The Google Slides API and Google Drive API must be enabled on your GCP project:

gcloud services enable slides.googleapis.com drive.googleapis.com

Examples

# Export using gcloud ADC
dac export slides --dashboard "Sales Analytics"

# With explicit credentials and filter overrides
dac export slides \
  --dashboard "Sales Analytics" \
  --credentials ~/credentials.json \
  --filters '{"region": "Europe"}'

Output

The command creates a new Google Slides presentation and prints the URL:

Created presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1abc.../edit

Slide Layout

• Title slide with dashboard name and description
• One slide per row in the dashboard
• Metrics rendered as text boxes with formatted values
• Charts rendered as PNG images via go-chart, uploaded to Drive, embedded in the slide, then cleaned up
• Tables rendered as native Slides tables (max 10 data rows)

Supported Widget Types

Widget	Rendering
Metric	Formatted text box with value, prefix/suffix
Chart (line, area, bar, pie)	PNG image via go-chart
Table	Native Slides table
Text	Not currently exported