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Helper IImage URL in a report - Do not appear
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
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
Helper IAnonymous
Indeed, you are right. I did a stupid URL copy-pasting ....
Thanks a lot! :)
- sophie63
Hi,
I have the following excel sheet with the URL of the image I want to include in my report:
I linked it to my data table and changed the type to Image URL. But I get the following:
The images appear as "Stickers" and we cannot see them. Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks!
- Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Hi sophie63
Can you please post the data in text format to help us test. It's cut off in the image that you posted so hard to reproduce.
Phil_Seamarkduplicate thread, already solved here http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Image-URL-in-a-report-Do-not-appear/m-p/147821#M63782
Wiki images are a pain too because even if you get out of Google Images and back to the source, their viewer page urls look like image file urls even though they really aren't.
