Image allows you to display a both static and dynamic image within defined mode (default, fill, uniform and uniform to fill).
You may add image of supported formats including, BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, EMF, JFIF, JPE, PNG, RLE, TIF, TIFF, WMF, DIB, and ICO from your local machine or column binding to the image widget.
The following steps represents to add Image to dashboard:
Data Source
button in the configuration panel.CREATE NEW
button to launch a new connection from the connection type panel.Microsoft Excel
Connection type is selected for demonstration) of the listed connection type button shown.NEW DATA SOURCE
configuration panel, fill the connection type and related details. Click the Preview & Connect
button.Save
button.Properties
button in the configuration panel.You may browse the image or bind a datasource column that contains the image URL.
You may assign a data by clicking the Assign Data button.
Drag and drop image column from the dimension
section to Column
section.
You can format the image for better illustration of the view that you require, through the settings available in Properties pane.
This allows you to set the title
for this Image widget.
You can customize the image showcase style through the Mode
setting in the Design Tools pane or properties pane.
The image will be displayed in its original size.
The image will be filled in the available space.
The image will be uniformly occupying the space but gets clipped, if it is larger than control
The image sizes proportionally (without clipping) to best fit to the widget area.
You can browse the image from your local
system.
NOTE: Image that having special characters in the file name is not supported in Dashboard Application.
You can give the URL
of the image which must be a valid URL.
Ex: http://flagpedia.net/data/flags/normal/in.png
Parameterized URL images can be bind through this option and we can also able to add different columns value as a placeholder through the placeholder textbox.
Forming URI through placeholder
EX: http://flagpedia.net/data/flags/normal/{0}.png
You can ignore the filter actions by enabling the IgnoreFilterActions property. Browse Image will not act as a slave widget.
To configure the linking to URL or dashboard with the widget using its settings. For more details, refer to the Linking.