Is it possible to have image slicers in Power BI?

[Sharz]

I can have image slicer in Power View but when the report is imported into Power BI I just get a list of image URLs & not the images.

Also if images are imported via database in Power View, camera icon appears instead of images..

Any solution?? 

[Anonymous]

Hi @Sharz,

   you can do it like this:

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/logo-on-slicer-buttons/m-p/9828/highligh...

( thanks to @PowerBIGuy and @GrahamKnowles )

Let me know if it works.

#I'M Not An Expert#

[Greg_Deckler]

I do not believe that image slicers are a supported visualization just yet. Did you try tiles?

There has been a lot of that grey camera icon going around, but I have seen this issue with jpg files imported from a folder in Excel and Power View, not just Power BI

[Sharz]

Let me clarify. I meant images as slicers in Power BI.

And yes the camera icon is with Power View. No idea on how to display images in Power View & Power BI.

[andre]

@Sharz, currently the service can only support static images.  Images in slicers, tables and carousel controls are not supported.

[Sharz]

Does that mean Power BI doean't support binary data?

[andre]

it depends on your definition of "support".  You can definitely load binary data in your model.  However, only Excel/Power Pivot can render that data as an image today.  Desktop/service cannot. Most likely this will change for the better very soon.