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Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

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Brett Gerhardi on 05 Sep 2017 20:00:44

Amazed/Appalled that this is explicitly not supported.

The company I work for are a full Office 365 E5 subscriber and use all the Microsoft tools.

It seems that Power BI does not allow images stored on Sharepoint and Onedrive (unless they are shared anonymously which the business doesn't allow for security reasons)

At this link under images:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-add-a-widget-to-a-dashboard/#add-an-image

It says, "Say you want your company logo on your dashboard, or some other image. You'll need to save the image file online and link to it. Make sure special credentials aren't required to access the image file. For example, OneDrive and SharePoint require authentication, so images stored there can't be added to a dashboard this way."

Worse, it is not fully "not supported" as it works perfectly fine in everything except IE. If I use "get link" from sharepoint on an image, it shows correctly in all browsers except for IE10. This means we are unable to put any images on any of our dashboards which is a pretty embarrassing conversation with our senior managers/directors that Microsofts own service doesn't work with other Microsoft services.

Surely this can't be that hard to just make this work in IE and job is done?

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a112fd9f 416b-4128-baa0-384e4bf51f38 on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:53

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

I'm surprised, it is still not fixed :(

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:01

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

I can't believe this is not possible, please add this.

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14d73172 c34c-4a00-8af8-d009250d1d2c on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:39

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

Really needed, please add this feature.

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e3897af3 3ca6-48a6-8b7a-2d2d56e18232 on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:27

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

Still having this issue in 2019. Hi Microsoft, please have this fixed.

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ee4e90a3 aaa5-4d82-89a7-348b20a2296a on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:29

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

Really need this for our dashboards, all file hosting platforms are blocked so this would be the only solution for us.

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7f62bec7 cdc5-4b8d-8ecf-e2bb9c2ce4f8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:20

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

Since this is a SharePoint thing as much as it is a PowerBI thing, I have posted it as an issue on the SP UserVoice. Please vote for it, so the issue gets highlighted as important.

https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/330318-sharepoint-administration/suggestions/35041747-powerbi-and-sharepoint-image-permission-integration

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7f62bec7 cdc5-4b8d-8ecf-e2bb9c2ce4f8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:20

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

With Microsoft making PowerBI such a cornerstone, this issue really needs to be addressed. By not allowing us to specify anonymous permissions at the folder level, or fixing this some other way, the functionality is limited.
I would like to extend a Power BI dashboard to Cortana, but will need to compromise what is delivered there because SP images cannot be displayed outside SharePoint.

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721a36ee 2be6-40fb-ba79-1ebf69582571 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:36

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

I agree, this needs to be fixed. The only way I can get the images to display is to embed the Power Bi in the SharePoint site, so the user opens it there instead.

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8f30011d 3b66-489c-b9fb-5116e95955bd on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:09

RE: Allow Images stored on authenticated Sharepoint and Onedrive in Dashboards

This has to be fixed. We are unable to add images from Business OneDrive/SharePoint to Power Bi Dashboard.
From Personal OneDrive/public URLs, it is working fine