Image URL in a report - Do not appear

[sophie63]

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?

[KHorseman]

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]

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=0ahUKEwiZzdi5...

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj4pamt...

[KHorseman · Accepted solution]

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

[sophie63]

@KHorseman

Indeed, you are right. I did a stupid URL copy-pasting ....

Thanks a lot! 🙂

[KHorseman]

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.

[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]

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.

[KHorseman]

@Phil_Seamarkduplicate thread, already solved here http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Image-URL-in-a-report-Do-not-appear/m-p/147821#M63782