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Anonymous
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11 years ago
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Images/binary in Power BI Desktop ?

I have made a simple data model with a query joining 2 tables from a SQL Server. The first table holds countries and the other holds an image for each country. But the image column is NOT present whe...
  • JenUnderwood's avatar
    JenUnderwood
    11 years ago

    Support for binary data type display is not yet available in Power BI Desktop. 

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pmdci
Advocate V
10 years ago

Hi,

 

Actually I see the option of specifying an image URL as a workaround, but not as the solution. I was really hoping for having Power BI fetching data from a binary column just like SSAS. After all we can do this with Power View since SharePoint and Excel 2010.

 

If I go about specifyign images URL now I have to place my images in some sort of public accessible http server, which is quite annoying, really :(

 

 

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koenverbeeck
Advocate II
10 years ago

Any news on this? I'd really like to display images stored in an SSAS MD cube, with live connection.

So there's also not the possibility to mark a column as image in the model, since you cannot edit anything.