Bi Viewer - Image component - Binary Array

[giutor73]

Hi,

does anyone have a clue on how to use the Binary Array facility inside the Image component in a BI Viewer? I couldn't find anything in the documentation apart a simple mention. How do I actually load image files inside this Binary Array?

Thanks 🙂

[JackLacava]

That feature allows you to retrieve a picture dynamically, according to the contents of the datasource field you've bound to the Attribute slot. If the record provided by the datasource contains an image in that field (as a binary field like Varbinary, I believe), it will be retrieved and displayed.

You seem to have bound the Account field, which will only contain an account name. That's not going to work with Binary Array.

[giutor73]

Thank for replying. So only one image can be bound then? I have to display a different image according to the content of the field. 

[JackLacava · Accepted solution]

Yes. In your case, I think what you want is the URI option. You can put all your images on a webserver somewhere, named after the possible contents of that field (e.g. "account1.png"), then specify the URI option with something like "https://example.com/images/{0}.png". When the field contains the value "account1", the component will contain the image at https://example.com/images/account1.png .

[giutor73]

Yep I did this way.

Thanks Jack!

[ckattookaran]

I know you already got the answer, however another way to do this will be to create a table and load the image binary as varbinary into the table, once you have that you can use it in BI viewer and change it based on the row selection.