WARNING! Disappearing Images | EMBEDDING IMAGES in Power BI No URL Needed

In this video I will show you how to embed images in Power BI so that they do not unexpectedly disappear one day. Enjoy this video and subscribe to always stay updated on my favorite Power BI tricks!

--------------------------------
📊 TRAININGS 📊
---------------------------------

---------------------------------
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
---------------------------------
00:00 Intro
00:30 Showing images using image URL
01:51 Encoding image files to text
06:56 Making sure you see the entire image
12:20 Custom function to encode binary image to text
15:13 Adjusting the function for Image URL to text
16:25 End

---------------------------------
😍 JOIN 😍
----------------------------------

---------------------------------
👇 CHECK THIS OUT! 👇
---------------------------------

* Above are affiliate links, which means at no additional cost to you, if you make a purchase using these links we will receive a small commission. It supports us and helps us to continue making more How to Power BI videos!

Thanks for being a part of this channel and all your support! 💪 🙏

#HowToPowerBI​ #PowerBI​ #DataTraining​
#powerbidesktop​ #powerbitraining​ #powerbideveloper​ #DAX

[diegoferreira]

Thank you very much man! You reallyyyy help with that video, because I simply cannot work without the url of the images

[martinlivingstone]

Great tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for - thanks for sharing!

[omarconti]

You are a hero! I have struggled for weeks and now solved it, thanks to this tutorial.🙂

[erickung]

Bas, I love you!
I am building a dashboard for my board of directors and i want go show the top 5 customers per category
And i want the customer logo

My images were not showing before and I'll try this function Monday when i get to work!

[remib]

Nice video,
If I recall properly, Chris Webb has also created a function and measure that allow to have image bigger than the limit of one row. Basically the technic is to create multiple row to have the full image and them use measure to concatenate all rows together.

[chriscraig]

Bas, you are the best!! You have helped me solve so many issues in PowerBI. You are the man!!

[MarcoBrancato-uj]

You are a superstar - a hero - simply the greatest. Thank you so much for your help.

[Belakavadi]

Awesome mate. Back in days when I had to incorporate images, I had to take long-winded steps to convert to a Base64 format. This function makes it a breeze. 👍

[dbalkin]

The BEST PBI content on the interwebs!

[avanthasenanayake]

Your Teaching Skills are Excellent....

[yasinpercin]

Fantastic way 👍🏼 keep going man, best source at youtube about PBI.

[Amr-Ibrahim-AI]

Thanks Bas for the detailed explanation. I enjoy all your videos.

[phuongnamnguyen]

This tricks is incredible! Thank you very much for this video

[tak]

Wow, thank you you so much Bas for sharing this use case for the Base64 encoder! I love the implicaitons of it. Have you noticed very long refresh rate times in Power Query when trying to apply to "lots" of rows?

I converted 715 rows of the binary content (jpegs) to the encoded text. Now, the refresh rates takes 3+ minutes -- I actually quit PBI desktop as I figured it wasn't worth waiting. Excluding one jpeg w/ a file size of 36 KB, all other jpegs hosted in my one drive folder do not exceed 27 KB w/ more than the 700 files not exceeding 19 KB. I suspect it might be the connection to a cloud folder -- haven't tested from a local drive as this solution will not serve my needs.

Prior to using the Base 64 encoder method, I used the typical URL value approach. Refresh rate with the same files is almost instataneous (<3 seconds) using the latter approach.

Thanks for any insight you can provide here. And thanks again for sharing this awesome use case!

[terpstry]

Great video. Very crisp and clear explanation. Thanks!

[vignesversb]

Simply awesome Bas👌🏼👏🏼👊🏼 i do have a request to know if there is a way to show multiple images one after the other thru a click or automatically with a zoom out effect.. wud really appreciate if u can nail this ! Thanks again for your efforts and creative mind❤️

[garyb]

Fantastic Power BI tutorial as always!

[filippogermi]

Real usefull well done, one curiosity this process is applicable to shows some embedded documents in my sql and maybe then double click and visualize in full content?

[tassorafaela]

Man, you saved me!! Thanks!
You rock!!

[carltonseymour]

Is there a possibility to add an image to a tooltip? For example on hover over a lat/long point I should get the image of that place that I have stored somewhere along with key data.