Images not displaying on reports

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Images not displaying on reports

Jason jones-227397

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January 18, 2006 at 1:08 pm

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I have a logo image mapped to my reports using a URL and all I'm getting is a little red 'x'. The URL path is http://www.anyoldWebsite.com/images/logo.gif which allows for annonymous access so I know/believe it is not a security issue. I am running SQL server 2000 with Reporting Services service pack 2 on a Windows 2000 machine.
When I 'view source' for the report I notice that the generated HTML for the image contains an empty string. i.e....<IMG src="">
Where should I be looking to correct this?

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ofir shoval Ten Centuries Points: 1278 More actions · Answer 1

hi,why won't you save this image & insert it as embeded image?

moe_mayne SSCommitted Points: 1933 More actions · Answer 2

go with embeded images dude... save the hassel...

Moe C

Phil.Nicholas SSCrazy Points: 2147 More actions · Answer 3

My guess would be that the report service needs access to the internet to resolve the url.

Phil Nicholas

Pete Lyons-293593 Newbie Points: 1 More actions · Answer 4

Pete Lyons-293593

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January 19, 2006 at 11:40 am

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What Phil said.

Bill Scott SSCrazy Points: 2338 More actions · Answer 5

I did a little research on a similar issue recently. If the image is fixed - ie a logo - then the report server needs to be able to find the file. If the image is going to be determined by the data, it needs to be in an inmage blob from the database. I wasn't able to find a way to say "here's the path to the .jpg file" when i was getting the path in my data.

I'd be a happy camper if someone could tell me how to tell reporting services to use a file holding the image. ie if i want to display Annies picture, then Bobs picture... as determined by the report query results.

Jason jones-227397 Newbie Points: 3 More actions · Answer 6

I was able to resolve this issue by adding the web address in the host file.

The reason for not going with the embeded image was because of the volume of reports. We changed the logo and then had to modify 78 reports and push each report one at a time to 4 servers. We needed to be able to edit the image only once and have the changes automatically progpogated throughout the sytem.

Phil.Nicholas SSCrazy Points: 2147 More actions · Answer 7

I have a slightly different issue of a demo lap top running windows 2003 server & rs service pack 2 where the image streams are lost (unless run via the web parts in sharepoint strangely), any ideas?

Phil Nicholas

Jason jones-227397 Newbie Points: 3 More actions · Answer 8

Is the laptop connected to the internet? If not, the local website that the URL points to, needs to be added to the host file located at: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as "127.0.0.1 websiteName". Otherwise the image URL won't resolve.