Here specify the following details.ĭatabase name in which FILESTREAM table exists It opens a connection window for the SQL Server database. Select SQL Server data source to import data from a database table. We want to import this Power BI Desktop report. Once we have a SQL table, run a select statement to check its content.įROM. You can refer to articles FILESTREAM in SQL Server and Managing data with SQL Server FILESTREAM tables for the below steps.Įnable FILESTREAM feature from the SQL Server configuration managerĬonfigure the FILESTREAM access level using the sp_configure commandĬreate a SQL database with a FILESTREAM filegroupĬreate a table in a SQL Server FILESTREAM database Let me specify steps for FILESTREAM in a brief way here. In the below image, we can refer to the SQL FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server. You can go through a series of articles on FILESTREAM on SQLShack. It stores the metadata into SQL Server tables and images stored in the local disk. We can store images in database tables using the SQL FILESTREAM feature. Load Image file from SQL Server database (SQL FILESTREAM) into Power BI Desktop Once you change the data category, it shows you the images instead of the URLs. Select Image URL for the column that contains the URL of the images. Click on the Data Category, and it gives you a variety of categories such as Address, Place, Continent, Image URL, Web URL, and Barcode. Click on the column that contains the Image URL, and it opens the columns tools.īy default, it does not categorize the columns. We do not require a URL instead, it should show actual images referencing by the URL. Put a check on both columns, and it shows you both column data in the Power BI report. We also specified column names for the data table.Ĭlick on Load, and it shows the columns in the data field section. In the following screenshot, we see three image URLs along with the image title. Click on the Copy Image Location, and it copies the image URL in the clipboard.Ĭopy this image URL in a new column of a data table. Open this URL and right-click on an image, it shows you a list of image option. To fill this table, we will use the images in the URL. Currently, it shows a single blank column. We also get an option to enter data manually in a data table.Ĭlick on Enter Data in the menu bar as shown below We can import data from various sources, as shown in the earlier articles on SQLShack. We can store the images URL in a data table, and that can view as an image in the report. Image URL configuration in Power BI Desktop There are few other formatting options as well that you can easily Specify a title text, font color, background color, alignment and text color for it. Image title: Sometimes, we want to use image title as well. We can see an image border in the following image. We can go in the format area, enable the border, set the border color. We can do the formatting of this image as well.īorder: By default, it does not use any border for the image. You can adjust the size and location of it as per your requirement. It supports various image formats such as JPEG, PNG. To add a static image, Navigate to Insert-> Image from the menu bar.īrowse to the directory and select the image file. It gives a nice visual improvement to showcase the brand logo in the reports. Suppose you designed a report and want to display a company logo on the top of the page. You can download the latest version from the link.Īdding a static image to showcase company branding in the report You should use the latest Power BI Desktop version to use all the latest features. Let’s open the Power BI Desktop app and dig into it for a beautiful visual. Can we use that data and display an actual image in a report? Suppose you import data from a SQL database, and it contains the binary representation of an image. How can we display them in a Power BI report? Suppose you hold a dataset that contains URLs of the products. We are adding a company or brand logo in a report We might use images for different purposes in a report such as the following: You can convey messages easily using these images in a report. Images help to improve the visual appearance of a report. In the article Web URL configuration in a Power BI Desktop report, we explored a different method to use Web URL in a Power BI report.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |