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5 years ago
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Dashboard Image Tile Can't Load Image

Hi all,   I've put some custom images (.jpg) on our organization's Sharepoint site that I've used as images on our app/workspace's navigational dashboard tiles. The Sharepoint folder that contains ...
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    trebgatte
    5 years ago

    Unfortunately, the Power BI Service cannot access your SharePoint site. The URL must be http or https and must be accessible externally for dashboard tiles. You might be able to put them in a OneDrive public folder and get the url from there, maybe?

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5 years ago

Hi Treb. Thanks for the quick response. Currently there are six different tiles with images, each between 100 and 150 kb in size. Though as we continue to add reports, my intent is to add a dashboard tile that navigates to each report with a cropped screenshot of each report as the corresponding tile image. Our Sharepoint is "public-facing" within our company, but is not be external-facing to the internet as a whole. 

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    trebgatte
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    5 years ago

    Unfortunately, the Power BI Service cannot access your SharePoint site. The URL must be http or https and must be accessible externally for dashboard tiles. You might be able to put them in a OneDrive public folder and get the url from there, maybe?

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      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      That's what I was afraid of. I'll explore the OneDrive route. Thanks for your help.