Import Images into Power BI Datasets

How to import images into Tables for displaying in your Power BI reports
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[@ArtfulData]

Absolutely fantastic video! Your clear explanations made complex concepts feel so approachable. Looking forward to more insightful content from your channel!

[@AccessAnalytic]

Thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment

[@rafacasima]

I knew that base64 coding, but i'd never could find a way to get around the max character limit. Great post. Thank you

[@AccessAnalytic]

Thanks, you’re welcome Rafael

[@Robert-hb5tc]

Really enjoyed your book! thanks for the videos

[@AccessAnalytic]

You’re welcome Robert. Thanks!

[@chiniminiz]

The link to Chris Webb's Blog Post is the same as to your pbix-file. Could you please change this link to the blog post? :)

[@AccessAnalytic]

Done

[@DavidWilsonNZ]

Good tips Wyn. It shows good possibilities for improved image management and visualisation. Hopefully the #CoreVisuals team can adjust their coding to make better use of stored visuals.
I've been thinking of how you can manage this with a published report in the service. Lets say I have a set of "reference" visuals that never (or rarely change). And I want to keep the data in my report update to date so I refresh 12 times per day (every 2 hours). So it would be a bad use of compute resource to reimport my reference visuals every 2 hours, every day, 365 days per year.
What do I do?
Maybe... I can create a reference dataset of images. I can manage that / refresh that as needed.
Then my main report(s) can connect to the reference data set as a hybrid report (i.e. like direct query) and use when required.
Taking that to the next level.. perhaps I can store those reference images in my cloud database... snowflake? and access those images via Direct Query?
I may not even need to break up the images into 32K chunks (maybe - I don't know about this... Would be interesting to test.

[@AccessAnalytic]

I’d probably put the images in wordpress or a image hosting service and reference that to be honest. Or import and disable refresh.

[@bismarjatisakti8998]

And how to using image on database?can gpt generate index

[@AccessAnalytic]

I’m not sure sorry

[@rookie68studio26]

thank you ❤

[@hamsjelv46]

Great video - thanks

[@AccessAnalytic]

Cheers

[@simoniskierka]

Is it possible to do it with PDFs insead of images?

[@AccessAnalytic]

Not that I’m aware of