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.
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.
This allows you to set title for this Image widget.
You can customize the image showcase style through 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 IgnoreFilterActions property. Browse Image will not act as a slave widget.
You can export the image widget as image.
You can export the image widget as PDF.