Display the current's user picture in Power BI

[userpowerbiii12]

I used this measure to display a greeting message after retrieving the username of the session and the current timezone.

Greetings Deno = 
VAR v_LoginUserName = USERNAME() 
VAR v_hour = HOUR(UTCNOW()) 
VAR v_prefix = SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    v_hour < 12, "🌅 Good Morning ,",
    v_hour >= 12 && v_hour <= 17, "☀️ Good Afternoon ,",
    "🌇 Good Evening ,"
) 
RETURN v_prefix & " " & v_LoginUserName & " " & " ! "

I wanted to ask if it is possible to display the profile picture of the current logged-in user in an image viewer? Of course , if the user has no profile picture I'll display a default one 

[v-tangjie-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @userpowerbiii12 ,

To display the profile picture of the current logged-in user in an image viewer, you can try the following steps:

- Create a new streaming dataset in Power BI that collects all the metadata from the dataflow run, including the user email and the image URL.
- Use a custom visual that is Image by CloudScope and store the image URL in the table as text data type.
- For the URL column, do settings like Modelling tab ->datacategory->Image URL.
- Apply dynamic RLS based on user email and the image will display based on user login.
- If the user has no profile picture, you can use a default image URL as a fallback option.

Please refer to the following document for more information.

(1) Add images, videos, and more to your dashboard - Power BI
(2) How to display user image dynamically based on use 
(3) Add Photos to Power BI from Active Directory - RADACAD

Best Regards,

Neeko Tang

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[cramhp]

So you are saying that it's a good idea to get the entire list profiles of a company with thousands/millions of users?  I don't think so.. 

[amitchandak]

@userpowerbiii12 , You can use userprincipalname() in a measure, that will give the user's email. Using that you can create a name measure and url measure to display name and image