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shashank
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Image urls are not working

Hi Team,

 

In my data in one column i have captured url of images, when i'm creating tables or other visuals using those url's they are not getting converted into images.

 

I have changed data type of that column as URL in model,i'm using Power BI desktop.

 

is there any specific visual which can only be used for that puropse ?

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Anonymous
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I can't find any specific doco on it, apart from http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/How-to-Include-images-in-reports-from-folder-or-url-or-binar... but Power BI may be, strictly speaking, looking for a http:// based URL rather than C:\...

 

Does it work if you source your images from OneDrive etc. ?

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Anonymous
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Did you set the Data Category (not Data Type) to "Image URL" ?

 

Under Properties on the ribbon, to the right of Formatting etc.

Yes i did that. attached are screenshot for your ref.report viewreport viewdata model viewdata model view

Anonymous
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I can't find any specific doco on it, apart from http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/How-to-Include-images-in-reports-from-folder-or-url-or-binar... but Power BI may be, strictly speaking, looking for a http:// based URL rather than C:\...

 

Does it work if you source your images from OneDrive etc. ?

Thanks for your help, you are right when i did liniing directly from http it worked but with local images it was not working.

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