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ineedham's avatar
ineedham
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8 years ago

Custom Social Network Graph visual won't show images from Sharepoint urls

I'm using the new Social Network Graph visualization, and I can't get images from Sharepoint addresses to show up.  In the example below, the source images have Sharepoint addresses; the target images that are working are urls from from Wikipedia images.

 

I tried changing the column's data format to web and image urls, but neither worked. I've downloaded and studied the sample and haven't had any luck.  Does anyone know if this is just an inherent limitation of the visualization? 

 

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  • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
    v-huizhn-msft
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    8 years ago

    Hi ineedham,

    First, create a table visual in your Power BI desktop, set the Data Category (not Data Type) to "Image URL" and check if the imagine shows correctly. If it works fine in table visual not in customer visual, the error will be related to custom visualization. If it still not work in table visual, you use the sharepoint online? Please check if there is permission like this similar thread described. 

    Best Regards,
    Angelia

    • ineedham's avatar
      ineedham
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      8 years ago

      Thank you for your suggestions.

       

      I'd already tried putting the url link in a table, and the links worked: they opened and went to the Sharepoint housed images.

       

      And I'm the SharePoint Administrator, so I don't think it's a permissions issue.

       

       

      • Brian_M's avatar
        Brian_M
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        8 years ago

        I think the pictures need to be publicly visible to be rendered by Power BI, which may be a show stopper for you.

         

        Test this by linking to some public pictures instead or by creating a shared test folder of images in OneDrive (or Dropbox) and link to those. 

         

        The behaviour that I'd expect if your files were on a private SharePoint site would be that PowerBI won't render them as a thumbnail or in an image viewer, but that if you click on the link then you are prompted to sign in to O365 and then you see the images if you have the appropriate permissions.

         

        Hope that helps!