Images in DB Table

taylor

I have a column within SQL that is a datatype of varbinary(max). This field houses an image in it, and I am looking to be able to view this image within Decisions. Currently, I have an image object that I am trying to have the image pop up in, once viewed by the user. I am just curious if the image object needs to be of a specific datatype to be viewed within Decisions? Currently I have been unsuccessful in getting the sql field data to pop up into the image object

Kathryn_Decisions

Typically when we store items such as images in a database, we save them as FileReferences. This is a reference to a stored item within the instance itself, and the data stored in the database is used to call it when queried.

https://documentation.decisions.com/docs/file-type-overview#file-reference

You won't be able to view this as a standard report, but by storing an image as a File Reference, you can fetch it and display it on an Image form component by dynamically passing the data in.