Unable to display Images

[Anonymous]

I'm fairly new to Power BI and have been trundling along just fine until now. I'm after soem help with what I think is probably a simple fix...

I'm trying to get a simple table to return an image when the appropriate selection is made in the slicer. Essentially I have a small table (produced using MS Excel) comprising of two columns. Column A contains the name of a number of company departments, Column B contains the image URL of the org strtcture for that department. However depsite trying many things over many hours I can't get it to return a thing even though the filter is working okay.

So far I have tried:

• Alternative image hosting: ImgBB, One Drive, even using google images with known good urls
• Alternative image format: jpg, png, even Base64 (Base64 was the most promising as it displayed around 10% of the image - however I dont think the cell could hold enough characters so only part of the image was displayed)
• Ensuring the column is formatted correctly in Power BI (formatted as Image URL)
• Alternative image visualisation tools

The net effect being that nothing works. All I'm getting in all cases except Base64 is a standard image icon appearing where the image should be. I'm beginning to think that there's some kind of blocking of external URLs within Power BI stopping all external references from returning.

Any thoughts?

[v-easonf-msft]

Hi , @Anonymous 

Please  make sure the url  is correct and you have set image permission.

You may check if  the following posts help.

Can-t-see-image-in-table-from-Sharepoint-in-Desktop-but-can-see

Image-viewer-working-for-Web-URL-not-for-One-Drive-or-SharePoint

Image-URL-to-display-Image-not-working
Display-Images-from-URL-Link-Not-Working

power-bi-images-tables#considerations

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , please check if you getting those image if you paste that url on the browser , does that url need some kind of Auth ?

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Dynamic-Image-Display/m-p/73693
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Getting-Image-URLs-to-display-Image/m-p/216843

https://visualbi.com/blogs/microsoft/powerbi/dynamically-display-images-power-bi/

[Anonymous]

...thanks also for taking the time to share those other threads. I have been through them all and a number of others but for some reason the solutions dont work for me.

[Anonymous]

Hi, many thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes the images load correctly when the url is pasted into the browser. The plot thickens...

[AllisonKennedy]

have you tried publishing to PowerBI.com? your company could have some blocks on desktop. Do maps load properly in your desktop?

[Anonymous]

Hi Allison, thanks so much for taking the time to reply.

Yes I tried that this morning and the result is just the same. It's absolutely puzzling...

[v-easonf-msft]

Hi , @Anonymous 

Could you please tell me whether your problem has been solved?
If it is,  please mark the helpful replies or add your reply as Answered to close this thread.
It will help other community members easily find the solution when they get the similar issue.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason