Display collected images in PowerBI

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Hi guys

i'm sure lots of you are using PowerBI. i'm wondering if anyone managed to get images collected through a form to show up in a PowerBI Dashboard without downloading the images onto a public source first.

Because the link that's provided doesn't allow anonymous access, it's showing up as a broken image in our dashboard.

Ideas dear community?

Mazz

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nothing guys?

i'm someone's got a cool trick up their sleeve

Mazz

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@ttseng Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Dev

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Funny - this specific workflow just came up in potential project today and i'm starting the search to figure out how to do this.

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I think that the straight up answer is: "It is not possible to read the images from the commcare repository directly into a report in Power BI".

But! there may be workarounds with dumping the images somewhere or with using some fancy code somewhere that passes the credentials when accessing the images

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Hi Mazz,

Good question - this may not add much more than you already know, but I did speak with one of our developers regarding this. They noted that using a form multimedia export onto a static file sever and then mapping the image URLs may do the trick. However, I'm afraid I don't have any more logistics to share than that. We'll let you know if more information comes to light.