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Display Images from URL Link - Not Working
Scott,
In regards to using DropBox try this:
1: Go to the file to share, and click "Share".
2: Click "Create a Link"
3: Click "Copy Link"
- The url output should look like "https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lhbtky7gq973db/CARN%20122%282%29.JPG?dl=0"
4: Replace "?dl=0" with "?raw=1"
- The result will be that instead of the image being shown as part of the dropbox experience the image will be in a raw layer and shows inside PBI.
Hi ScottFerguson,
Usually, we set the data category to Image URL for the column which contains URL text so that we transform a url on image. If we need to show a big image, we can choose to use Image viewer custom visual.
In your scenario, you said all above recommendations don't work, what did you see in your report rather than an image? The damaged image or nothing or still the URL text? Please make sure you inserted the real image URL instead of the Web page URL.
In my test, I could display an image in report from below image URL, please test whether this URL works for you.
Best regards,
Yuliana Gu
Yuliana,
Your test image did work in my model.
I saved an image from a webiste as a jgp file in Dropbox, copied the Dropbox link to my table and identifed it as an URL image data category.
The snapshot below shows the image you provided, followed by the image icon (not the actual image) from my Dropbox link.
Are you able to load images to Dropbox, or OneDrive and get the same result?
Thanks,
Scott
Scott;
I have a similar problem with Image URL links to Sharepoint online. If I display the field as a Web URL I can click on it and takes me to the right image and works fine. But if I convert the field to Image URL it displays the broken image icon and not my image. Any recomendation?
Hi,
I'm also facing the similar problem.
URL is not of website, instead of the image in the website.
My data is is excel which stores the links of URL.
This excel file is stored in share point.
And it has also been converted as Image URL.
Attaching screen shots.
Did anyone provide an answer to this.
thx.
Scott;
I have a similar problem with Image URL links to Sharepoint online. If I display the field as a Web URL I can click on it and takes me to the right image and works fine. But if I convert the field to Image URL it displays the broken image icon and not my image. Any recomendation?
I have seen images appear successfully, but it is hit or miss. Did you categorize the column containing the link as Image URL?
from where do we change that?
Hi Scott
I was having the same trouble and then I took a look at the PBI image in the thread above. That one was working for me too, but I wasn't getting mine to work. I noticed the PBI image was an embed link. An easy way to see the difference is the end of the URL as .jpg or .png. I sourced my images from a online image store SmugMug, which gave me the embed URL. Hope this helps!
Anthony
Anthony,
I opened a smugmug account, and copied the URL to my table, then catagorized it as an image URL.
The image still will not appear in the PBI report. - Scott
