Image

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.

Drag and drop the image widget into the Canvas.

You may browse the image or bind a datasource column that contains the image URL.

You may assign a data by clicking Assign Data button.

Assign Data

Drag and drop image column from dimension section to Column(s) section.

You can format the image for better illustration of the view that you require, through the settings available in Properties pane.

Name

This allows you to set title for this Image widget.

Name

Basic Settings

Mode

You can customize the image showcase style through Mode setting in the Design Tools pane or properties pane.

Default

The image will be displayed in its original size.

Fill

The image will be filled in the available space.

Fill

Uniform to Fill

The image will be uniformly occupying the space but gets clipped, if it is larger than control

Uniform to Fill

Uniform

The image sizes proportionally (without clipping) to best fit to the widget area.

Uniform

Image Source

Local

You can browse the image from your local system.

Local

NOTE: Image that having special characters in the file name is not supported in Dashboard Application.

URL

You can give the url of the image which must be a valid url.

Ex: http://flagpedia.net/data/flags/normal/in.png

URL

Parameterized URL

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.

Parameterized URL