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Advocate IVHow to replace image in the NATIVE image visual ?
Hi,
I have reports with many images using the native image visual and I need to update the images. Considering that those visuals are heavily customize (titles, sous-titles, properties, formats, etc.); I was wondering if there's an easy way to update the image without having to delete everything and insert new images?
I've been searching and I've read a lot of things...
- using the icon attribut in button visuals,
- installing Cloud Share visual,
- installing Image Grid visual,
- hosting your image on Azure then adding urls to your dataset and then use a card visual to display that image_url,
- I almost forgot, someone also suggested to save my reports has projects, uncompressed them, then used VSCode to programmatically update the source image of my image visuals, seriously!?
I found hard to beleive that Microsoft didn't think about that "feature" for the native image visual they provide in their product. I'm thinking maybe it's a user error and I'm just missing it. If that's the case then mea-culpa!
That's why I'm asking to community : Is there an easy way to replace source image in an image visual, other than the unwieldy suggestions above?
Thank you
--mo
Hi Anonymous ,
Thank you for your answer but I've tried working with zipped pbix files before and it's VERY unstable. I think that's actually why MS came up with the new save as project feature (the .pbip format).
The save as project (.pbip) is what I actually used to accomplished the work I needed to do in the usecase I described in my original post. To be honest, it wasn't that hard because I'm a computer engineer and I'm familiar with ALM and CI/CD concepts. I just often found myself frustrated when I see things that should have been designed for average non-IT employees and were not!
In anyway, in case someone has a similar problem and reads this post, here's how I did it :
- Open your report (.pbix) in Power BI Desktop. Go to Save as, then select the option Save as project (*.pibp). Close Power BI Desktop.
- At the location you saved the .pbip file, you'll also find a gitignore file and two folders ; one for semantic and one for report.
- In the report folder, navigate to \myReport.Report\StaticResources\RegisteredResources. You'll find your images there. You can replace the image files here but keep the same names.
- Then go back to where the .pbip file is saved and double click. It will open the project and take into account the changes you made in RegisteredResources.
- You can then go to File>Save as>PBIX... Done! you now have a report (pbix) with your need images. N.B. Some fine tuning might be required, especially if your new images are not exactly of the size as the old ones
--mo
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Hi molegris
Perhaps you could change the .pbix file to a .zip file and replace the file, I think that would be easier.
Hope it helps!
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molegrisHi Anonymous ,
Thank you for your answer but I've tried working with zipped pbix files before and it's VERY unstable. I think that's actually why MS came up with the new save as project feature (the .pbip format).
The save as project (.pbip) is what I actually used to accomplished the work I needed to do in the usecase I described in my original post. To be honest, it wasn't that hard because I'm a computer engineer and I'm familiar with ALM and CI/CD concepts. I just often found myself frustrated when I see things that should have been designed for average non-IT employees and were not!
In anyway, in case someone has a similar problem and reads this post, here's how I did it :
- Open your report (.pbix) in Power BI Desktop. Go to Save as, then select the option Save as project (*.pibp). Close Power BI Desktop.
- At the location you saved the .pbip file, you'll also find a gitignore file and two folders ; one for semantic and one for report.
- In the report folder, navigate to \myReport.Report\StaticResources\RegisteredResources. You'll find your images there. You can replace the image files here but keep the same names.
- Then go back to where the .pbip file is saved and double click. It will open the project and take into account the changes you made in RegisteredResources.
- You can then go to File>Save as>PBIX... Done! you now have a report (pbix) with your need images. N.B. Some fine tuning might be required, especially if your new images are not exactly of the size as the old ones
--mo
Thanks for the solution offered! I've one concern though. If your report was already published, would this change to "project" create a different link to the report once re-published? I don't want to replace my report, just change one image...
Thank you!
