I have a report that has one image control that is set for External files. I am using localreports and EnableExternalImages is set to true. I have a dataset with a table that contains the database fields which are in an Access database. The name of the image is stored in the database. I am trying to concatinate the relative path with the with the name of the image from the datatable. Here is the Image portion of the report file:
<
Image Name="imgProjectPicture"><
Sizing>Fit</Sizing><
Left>5.4in</Left><
Top>1.25in</Top><
Width>2.65in</Width><
Source>External</Source><
Style><
BorderStyle><
Default>Solid</Default></
BorderStyle><
BorderColor><
Default>Navy</Default></
BorderColor></
Style><
Height>2.95in</Height><
Value>="~/ProjectImages/" + Fields!Pic1.Value.ToString</Value></
Image>I have also tried puting the "file:///" desination in first part of the value field, which don't. I can hard code the image path and it works fine, but I don't want to create a report for every project we need these reports for.
Any help would br very much appricated,
Thanks, Todd
External images in a report
Rafael Justo
Are you trying to use a relative path to images stored directly on the report server
In that case the path must either start with a "/" to start from the root of the report server, or directly with the subfolder name in case of a relative path.
-- Robert
Cindy Winegarden
Thank you for your quick response!
The images are stored in a folder within my asp.net 2.0 project, sorry I didn't mention the asp.net part before, in a folder called "ProjectImages". The value field for the image control is set with:
"<Value>="~/ProjectImages/" + Fields!Pic1.Value.ToString()</Value>".
If I set this to a value in a text control in the report I can see the relative path is there. However it will not display the image.
Being new to creating reports I'm not sure if I have a report server working, but I don't think I do. I am using Visual Web Developer Express with the ReportViewer control installed.
Again, I am storing the image names in an access DB and trying to concatinate the relative path with the image into the value of the image control.
Todd
nobodyman
I found a post that answered by question!
The solution I found was to use the http:// address of where the image file is and concatinate the image file name from the dataset field. This is actually an absolute path solution, but it works. If someone knows a relative path solution I would be insterested in seeing it.
Todd
Habbit
Please include where you found the solution. I haven't been able to find enough information to use an external url. Your settings for an external image wouldn't compile in my current project. I eventually solved this by going to an embedded image but it wasn't my preference to do this. Any help would be appreciated.