Comments on: Working with images in Reporting Services

By: MikeG

MikeG — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:54:44 +0000

I store images in my c:\crw\data\attachment\permit\images folder. they are Not stored in the DB nor in report services. I use the @xxx parameter to open a report for a certain record. So how do I get the images for that record i produce a report on to attach and display on a report?

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:57:52 +0000

Hola alguno pudo inserta una Image en una Table, Mi problema es q no me muestra las imagenes dentro de la table

By: Philips

Philips — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:21:04 +0000

If you use SSRS 2005 onwards you just need to use a matrix and add the imageid in the column grouping and productid in the row grouping. Run the report and any number of images that the product has will be displayed correctly.

By: beakersoft

beakersoft — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:15:51 +0000

@smk – I think you are probably going to be into writting a custom extension for reporting services.
If there is a max number of images for each product you might just be able to drop that many controls onto the form and size them as needed, but thats not a very nice way to do it.
If you wrote a some custom code you could just add the images on the fly. Might be worth a look to see if anything already exists to do it?

By: smk

smk — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:23:52 +0000

I want to load images into a report dynamically for a specific product. For each product I seek to view the report for, there may be no image, one image or multiple images. These images are stored in an external file system and their path is stored in a database table column called PhotoLink. I run a stored procedure that accepts ProductNumber as an input parameter and returns the file path for the image(s) stored in the Database table PhotoLink column. The path looks similar to this one:

file://ABC02YGK/Photos/XYZ-12342-002 (1000 XXX)[HB]-1.jpg

In the reports layout view, I have added an image control from the toolbox and set the following properties:

Source=External
Value =Fields!PhotoLink.Value
Sizing=FitProportional

When I run the report, the report asks for the ProductNumber as input parameter and correctly renders the image in case the product has only one image path stored in the database table column “PhotoLink”. Until here there is no issue. However, I need to further enhance the report and should dynamically add and populate single or multiple image controls to the report depending upon the number of images this product contains. Is this possible at all and how can I achieve this?

By: Anshu

Anshu — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:40:03 +0000

Cheers,
This was really helpful.

By: Omar Yusuf

Omar Yusuf — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:39:26 +0000

thanx a lot it is tooo useful

By: Bendy

Bendy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:30:14 +0000

Did you come across a solution to display images that are directly stored in a DB-table?

Bendy

By: nokishere

nokishere — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:11:52 +0000

Thank god i found it.
Thank you.

By: beakersoft

beakersoft — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:26:39 +0000

Thanks, I always find some of the official Microsoft doc a bit lacking in certain areas, glad you found it useful