Images Not Showing in Power BI

To Whom It May Concern:

I am pulling images from a directory on our server. In doing so, I goto Table View in Power BI Desktop, select the column ImageURL, and for Data Category: I make it an Image URL. I pull many images, however, none of them are displaying. Now, I can take one of the images stored in the directory, and, insert it, like one would do in Outlook Email, and the picture displays just fine. I am not able to post screen shots, as I work in the Medical Field and it would be a HIPPA violation/Privacy Violation.

Please provide solutions or options feedback.

Very Appreciative,

Mark Lynn.

Images not displaying

Anonymous
1 year ago
Thank you for your support Greg_Deckler

Hi, lynnma

First, you need to make sure that your address is anonymous and accessible. To do this, I simulated your case with a shared folder:

It's not loadable when we put the url directly into Power BI:

\\VM1\Users\LJP\Desktop\image\1.jpg

The solution is to load your shared path into Power BI as a folder:

Add a custom column:

"data&colon;image/jpeg;base64," & Binary.ToText([Content],BinaryEncoding.Base64)

Set this column to the Image URL:

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