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mmattar
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago
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Base64 Images

Hello,   I have searched endlessly for this solution and every thread seems to go into a dead end.    I would like to know how to show images that are already encoded in Base64. I have a PowerApp...
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  • TeigeGao's avatar
    TeigeGao
    7 years ago

    Hi mmattar ,

    Actually, PowerBI has a limitation in the size of Base64 column, but I haven't found a document describing this. Besides, we can't find a method to reduce the size of Base64, you can consider reduce the quality of image and convert it to Base64 again.

    As a workaround, we can upload the image to server, then use the image url to display it.

    Best Regards,

    Teige

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Vladisam
Helper II
4 years ago

I am using simple PowerApp (really, document library and specifically pdf viewer) as a visual in PowerBI to display base64 stored on Sharepoint. I am passing document ID from PowerBI to PowerApp visual, and document is displayed in PBI

I used this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFfAkk3g1y8

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guh950
Microsoft Employee
4 years ago

I just viewed that video, it looks promising but its connecting to Power App, so to make sure I got the concept generally correct, the unlimited character base64 would fully populate in Power BI without needing to break up the base64 images into chunks, and without having to do resizing tomfoolery with the images before converting to base64 and storing as a link in PBI?

 

Also, how did you get the connection to PBI? Was it from the Power App or directly from sharepoint?