How to insert a linked image
1 Drag the image element from the palette, and drop it in the desired location on the page. Edit Image Item appears, as shown in Figure 5‑2.
Figure 5-2
3 To link to images whose URIs are stored in a database, use the following procedure. The procedure assumes you have already created a data set that includes the field, which stores the URIs to the images.
3 In the expression builder, select the data set field that stores the locations of the images, then choose OK. Figure 5‑3 shows an example of selecting a data set field named URL, which stores the URLs to images.
Figure 5-3 The expression builder showing a selected data set field that stores the URLs to images
3 In the expression builder, type the location of the image file. Enclose the URI in double quotation marks (" ").The following expression is an example of a URI for a file that is on the local file system:You would specify a local file system location only for testing in the early stages of report development. A deployed report cannot access resources on a local machine.
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