Image URL to O365 profile pictures works in Service but not in Desktop

[mahoneypat]

I am working on something today where I am dynamically adding profile pics to the report page (generating image urls from email address within our tenant). The pics show up in the visual when I publish to the Service, but show as broken links in Desktop.  the links also work in the browser.  The broken links in Desktop wouldn't be so bad except that the broken link icon also shows in subscription emails from the service, and when the report page is exported to pdf. 

I am using this format for the image url, replacing mycompany with the actual tenant/company (and replacing "@" and "." with "_" in the query) 

https://mydrive.mycompany.com/User%20Photos/Profile%20Pictures/john_doe_mycompany_com_MThumb.jpg

Any ideas?  Is there a better way to get profile pics into a report visual that may work better?

Regards,

Pat

[v-xicai]

Hi @mahoneypat ,

Have the issue been resolved? If Yes, could you please accept the proper reply as the solution ? If not, let me know and I'll try to help you further.

Best Regards,

Amy 

Community Support Team _ Amy

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

FYI that I was able to solve this with the approach described in this article.  The images were loaded into the model and stored as base64 text strings, so the image url link was not longer needed.

http://sqljason.com/2018/01/embedding-images-in-power-bi-using-base64.html

Regards,

Pat