![]() Using the technique that Gerhard wrote about, where the pictures can be stored as text in a single cell in a Power BI dataset and then displayed (in this case I’m using the Image by CloudScope custom visual) some truncation of the image occurs even with the smallest files because of the 32766 character limit on the length of a text value that can be loaded into Power BI. The original is about 2.1MB I have a folder on my PC where different versions of this picture, saved at different percentages of the original size, are stored: Here’s a rather lovely picture of a rose: This means it is now possible to have the output of a DAX measure displayed as an image in a Power BI report and this in turn opens up a lot of new possibilities – including the ability to work around the maximum size of a text value that can be loaded into Power BI (see my previous blog post for more details) and therefore work with larger images. ![]() Since they wrote those posts, however, Power BI has added the ability to set the Data Category property on measures as well as columns in tables. Jason Thomas and Gerhard Brueckl have both blogged on the subject of storing images as text inside a Power BI dataset:
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