In report designer, I have a logo.jpg located in the same directory of the reports. If I set the image source as external and path as logo.jpg. The image will show in designer preview. However, after I deploy the reports and the image to SSRS server, the image will not show. What happens is the image will be saved in SSRS as resources, but once I click on it it will give me some messy code.
If I open the report in the application, the image will also not display.
However, if I download it I can view it from my hard drive.
My current fix is to use absolute path in report designer or point to a image in the web, but that is not ideal.
I think that would be a access permission problem but I could not figure out why.
I used https://convert.town/image-dpi to convert my image to 96 dpi. SSRS then renders the image correctly in the pdf export.
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I am working in SSRS reports in that I need to display the logo for the report. I am having the image path in database like images/image1.png.i have used the external and database as the image source. But still no image is found in the logo.
Image path prefix with 'File:FilePath' For Example
'File:D:\logo.jpg'
I have lots of RDLC reports in an ASP.NET app, many generated dynamically (manual manipulation of .rdlc XML file).
Many have external images (EnableExternalImages=true, full https://... url of image passed to report as a parameter).
Reports and images work fine in ASP.NET app (via ReportViewer control).
I am now building a WPF app that uses the same code to generate PDF files from the .rdlc reports.
For the most part the reports work just fine in both ASP.NET and WPF. Both use LocalReport.Render("PDF") to generate a PDF file. The only exception is where external images are used - the report does not seem to be able to render external images in WPF. If I replace the external image with an embedded image it works fine. The URL is definitely correct in the WPF app (works if pasted into browser).
I have tried http and https, and "run as administrator" - same results. The actual error message is typically unhelpful and just seems to be a generic "something wrong" message ("The subreport 'Subreport1' could not be found at the specified location Custom1. Please verify that the subreport has Page 1").
Any ideas?
Doh! As usual the problem was my own stupid mistake, made worse by unhelpful error messages.
LocalReport.Render("PDF", ..., out warnings) has a version that includes an output parameter for Warnings which in this case gave me a precise reason for the malfunction: EnableExternalImages was NOT set as I thought (test all your ASSumptions!) (why don't they show this message in the report instead of the useless generic message, would have saved me a lot of time!).
EnableExternalImages turned out to be set in aspx markup, and not in the RDLC generator code, thus it worked in ASP.NET but not in WPF. I now set it in the code and it works in both apps as expected.
I have read many posts about external images not working in PDF - they definitely work just fine in PDF (and Word), at least with Microsfot.ReportViewer2015.Runtime v12.0.2.2402. What often does not work however is displaying the images in IE in the online (in-browser) preview of the report - half the time they show and half the time they do not show, but they always show in the PDF.
I am hosting SQL reports on a SQL reporting server. Currently I have my page set up to scroll through different reports using the webbrowser tool. Problem is the reports don't scale at all so the reports either have extra white around them or scroll bars. I was thinking that it would be much easier to work with these reports if I could somehow go to there webpage and simply grab a snapshot of the page. Images scale wonderfully in WPF.
Anyone have any idea how to do this?
I ended up figuring it out
I used URL access parameters to have the report server and browser render it as a PNG, then I just used an image and that link in my WPF
this.ImageSource = new Uri("http://rpt01-wq02/RptServer?/SFD/Reports/HourlyPPM&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=IMAGE&rc:OutputFormat=PNG&rc:Toolbar=False", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
In Reporting Services Report(rdl) Image can be attached easily using Select the image Source and Use this image (Import) .
But when i create a local Report (rdlc) the options on rdl is not provided. So i cannot attached my .jpeg image on it.
Thanks
If you only need a static image you can simply navigate to Report -> Embedded Images in Visual Studio and click 'New Image' to add a new image.
I have a small web site where i maintain users data. I maintain the users data in table and store there images like /images/users/user_id.jpeg on the server.
I am using the ReportViewer control in the asp.net page to show the reports from SSRS in the web application.
Now user want reports where they can see the users image in the report so that they can export it as pdf and get it printed.
In report i tried html image tag with full and relative url with option to render HTML however its not working. Also i tried the image control in the toolbox with external url and that too appears to be now working.
Can someone please help me get around this problem or guide me to some helpful links.
Thanks all,
It will be a lot easier to set up the report so that your users can see the image, if you can see the image in preview in Report Designer.
Make sure you have a working URL that takes you to one of your images. Test it, by pasting the URL into the address bar of your browser and ensure that the image is displayed in the browser.
Delete the existing image from your report. Insert a new image into the report object (normally a list or table) you are using to display your table. (This should be where the old image was.)
Specify Web as the image source, and enter your working URL as the URL of the image.
Preview the report in the report designer. You should be able to see the image (with the hardcoded URL) displayed correctly in the report.
Assuming all images are stored in the same directory on your server, switch to the layout tab of your report designer and click on the image object. In the Properties window, the value attribute should be the harcoded URL.
Click on the <Expression...> option from the dropdown menu for the Value attribute. Edit the expression so that it says ="your URL, without the filename" & Fields!your image filename data field name.Value
Preview the report in the report designer. You should be able to see the appropriate image for your data displayed correctly in the report.
If everything has gone correctly up to this point, deploy the report and try viewing it in the Report Manager. You should be able to see the appropriate image for your data displayed correctly in the report.
At this point, your users should now be able to see the report images.
I tried everything!!! It wasn't working in BIDS, Web Browser nor a Winform Report Viewer control.
I ended up hard-coding the image and it still didn't work:
="http://MyServer/Reports_SQL2008/Pages/Resource.aspx?ItemPath=%2fProjectReporting%2fBRAND_Logo.png&RetrieveResource=True"
I am pretty sure the problem was something to do with Active Directory Group Policy propagation. I suggest to leave it overnight if you have the same problem and have tried everything you can think of:
Setup Unattended Execution Account in SSRS Config with a service account who's password wont expire:
Permissions (both on image and also at Site Settings):
Can navigate to the image successfully, but it still doesn't show in the report.
Have the SSRS Image Properties set correctly, with the equal sign and url enclosed in double quotes, ie: ="url"
Even clear your browsers cache and tried different browsers, etc, etc
Anyway next morning I tried and the hardcoded path works and now this dynamic URL works too:
http://MyServer/Reports_SQL2008/Pages/Resource.aspx?ItemPath=%2fProjectReporting%2f" & First(Fields!Brand.Value, "ClientAndBrandByAccount") & "_Logo.png&RetrieveResource=True"
The XML in the RDL file is HTML encoded and looks like this:
<Image Name="Logo">
<Source>External</Source>
<Value>="http://MyServer/Reports_SQL2008/Pages/Resource.aspx?ItemPath=%2fProjectReporting%2f" & First(Fields!Brand.Value, "ClientAndBrandByAccount") & "_Logo.png&RetrieveResource=True"</Value>
I tried to make the Server URL dynamic as Alex Z shows, though I had to use this Replace code:
=Replace(Globals!ReportServerUrl,"/ReportServer_","/Reports_") & "/Pages/Resource.aspx?ItemPath=%2fProjectReporting%2f" & First(Fields!Brand.Value, "ClientAndBrandByAccount") & "_Logo.png&RetrieveResource=True"
Create a relative url using the expression and global variable Globals!ReportServerUrl
= Globals!ReportServerUrl + "your path to image"