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ScottFerguson
Helper II
9 years ago
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Display Images from URL Link - Not Working

I have seen a number of threads on similar subjects, and applied all recommendations:   website url for image (not local file path) format column with url to "Image URL" turn on "icon" option fo...
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    jsheriff
    9 years ago

     

    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.

     

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awgould
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

 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

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ScottFerguson
Helper II
9 years ago

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