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JayZee70
Helper I
8 months ago
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Problems with image links

Hello!   I've been having some problems with image links in Power BI. When I use links from the regular web it works fine in my reports. But when I want to connect with images from a Sharepoint l...
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    rohit1991
    8 months ago

    Hii JayZee70 

     

    SharePoint doesn’t expose a real image URL by default, so Power BI can’t render it in an image slicer. The link you get from SharePoint usually opens a viewer page (contains “?web=1” or “?cid=…”), not the actual JPG/PNG file. Power BI only displays images when the URL ends directly with the file extension. Open the image in SharePoint >> select “Copy link” >> choose the Direct file link >> use that URL in your table. After that the images will show correctly and can be centered in the slicer.

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rohit1991
Super User
8 months ago

Hii JayZee70 

 

Your tenant has disabled “Anyone with the link”, so SharePoint only gives authenticated URLs. Power BI cannot display images from authenticated links  only public/anonymous image URLs work. You’ll need admin to enable that option or store the images somewhere that supports anonymous links.

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JayZee70
Helper I
8 months ago

OK, that was the answer I didn't really want but unfortunately expected.

I have talked to our IT department and it is slim to none chance that I could get an exception from the very high security settings...

I might ask if I could get an "Image" add-on to my visualizations so I can make it work that way.

 

Thanks for your help!