Forum Discussion

Icon for Helper I rank

Helper I

9 years ago

Solved

Image URL in a report - Do not appear

Hi,

I am trying to include images in a table.I have the following Excel Sheet that I linked to my data table:

I changed the data type to Image URL. But here is what I get :

The images appear as "stickers" and we cannot see the real image...

Does someone have a clue?

Anonymous
9 years ago
As I suspected. You need to follow the links all the way until you get to the actual image file itself. Otherwise the URL is just a webpage that contains an image somewhere in its code. So for the up arrow for instance you would use...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Green_Arrow_Up.svg

8 Replies

Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago
I'm suspicious that these are not direct image file urls, but rather google images viewer urls. Can you post the full urls of a few of them?
- sophie63
  Helper I
  9 years ago
  For the first two:
  
  https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiZzdi5puzSAhWKcRQKHavZAf0QjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AGreen_Arrow_Up.svg&psig=AFQjCNG--tTvtpOoRNT21NX8Y4G7qvV5TA&ust=1490346115980523
  
  https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj4pamtpuzSAhWDSBQKHb8FC4YQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spreadshirt.com%2Fgreen%2Barrow%2Bup-A17247476&psig=AFQjCNG--tTvtpOoRNT21NX8Y4G7qvV5TA&ust=1490346115980523
  - Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago
    As I suspected. You need to follow the links all the way until you get to the actual image file itself. Otherwise the URL is just a webpage that contains an image somewhere in its code. So for the up arrow for instance you would use...
    
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Green_Arrow_Up.svg

Related content