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San_Raz
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2 years ago
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Sharepoint/onedrive image url without Login credentials.

Hi all, Numerous posts discuss how to display images in Power BI from SharePoint using URLs. However, these methods typically require users to have access to the files in SharePoint. As a result, fo...
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    christinepayton
    2 years ago

    The one workaround you can do here is if you can translate the images to base64, then pull that into your dataset, Power BI can display the image from the base64 code instead of pulling from the URL. The issue I run into is that the base64 code often exceeds the maximum character limit for fields... I think if your images are smaller, it can work though. There's a few videos out there on this on YouTube - here's a link to one of them: https://youtu.be/dPR46gEADBU?si=phIBCY6cLal-lMZB

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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hi San_Raz 

The image url has the following limitation:

The URL must be anonymously accessible, not on a site that requires a sign-in, such as SharePoint or OneDrive for work or school.

You can refer to the following link.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/power-bi-images-tables#considerations

So the best way is to put the image at a public website so that the user can see the image without any authentication.

 

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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