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Ana_Maria
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Images from Azure Blob

Hello, 

I created an aplication in Power Apps connected to SQL for info and to Azure Blob for photos. I want to display photo in pbi from Azure Blob but are blur and the max dimension for every photo is 32700. Can i create an URL or something like this from Blob to display photos in pbi?

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Ana_Maria
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From blob, photos are binary and i transform them in 64 base and show as Image URL (from data category) . The maximum number of characters of each photo is 32.766 characters. As i know, Power BI allows a maximum string length of 32.766 characters in a column. In the case of a large image, if the string contains more than 32,766 characters, it truncates the rest of the characters. I think PBI automatically restricts the number of characters and make the images blur

 

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No, that's not likely the issue.  There are ways to stitch larger images back together.

 

Chris Webb's BI Blog: Storing Large Images In Power BI Datasets (crossjoin.co.uk)

I know Chris' method but PBI automatically restricts my number of characters to 32766. 

That's why he is chunking it at 30000.

lbendlin
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the max dimension for every photo is 32700

 

Not sure what you mean by that. Please elaborate. What are the width and height of the images?

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