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Access External Image in Report designer

  • August 25, 2024
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Hi, we’re trying to access external images in our local acumatica instance using report designer but it is not showing. here’s how we did it:

 

 

Best answer by DipakNilkanth

Hi @jayson,

You need to remove / which you have added in the stating of Path Value field.
Please take a look in below attached screenshot.

 

Hope, it helps!

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Laura03
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  • August 25, 2024

Hello,

Did you notice this previous post, answered by palbores with a link to Vote for your idea?

It appears that current versions of Acumatica do not support locally stored images unless the images are stored directly on the Acumatica server.

 

https://community.acumatica.com/ideas/allow%2Ddisplaying%2Dimages%2Dfrom%2Dexternal%2Dsource%2Don%2Dthe%2Dreport%2Ddesinger%2D1062

 

Laura


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  • Jr Varsity II
  • August 26, 2024

Hello,

Did you notice this previous post, answered by palbores with a link to Vote for your idea?

It appears that current versions of Acumatica do not support locally stored images unless the images are stored directly on the Acumatica server.

 

https://community.acumatica.com/ideas/allow%2Ddisplaying%2Dimages%2Dfrom%2Dexternal%2Dsource%2Don%2Dthe%2Dreport%2Ddesinger%2D1062

 

Laura

Hi @Laura02 ,

We just want to know if what path are we going to specify when we upload photos in the Acumatica server. Thanks


nhatnghetinh
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  • Captain II
  • August 26, 2024

Hi @jayson 

You edit the Value as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards,

NNT


DipakNilkanth
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  • August 26, 2024

Hi @jayson,

You need to remove / which you have added in the stating of Path Value field.
Please take a look in below attached screenshot.

 

Hope, it helps!


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  • Freshman II
  • October 16, 2025

Is there any way to get the external url to be based on a formula or a variable?

It seems to work when you select Database as the source but not External.