I am using Xi 3.1.
We are storing images (blob) in one of the database tables. Is there any way I can display those blob items in the webi report. Or how can i created universe object for the blob type?
niranjan.bo (BOB member since 2007-03-27)
[quote:7b3468e0fd=“niranjan.bo”]I am using Xi 3.1.
We are storing images (blob) in one of the database tables. Is there any way I can display those blob items in the webi report. Or how can i created universe object for the blob type?
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You cant do it directly. You need few XML … sources.
Try this link.
https://bobj-board.org/t/130857
BO_Chief 
(BOB member since 2004-06-06)
Not sure of how to use blob in universe object.
May the workaround i can think of is to store the images in a folder path and use the path is your table.
And this can then be access thru a universe object and displayed in the report.
arunmozhi 
(BOB member since 2007-12-26)
The last post is true, however if your report has the potential of showing different images all the time then you need to consider if the BO server is the correct location for this. (eg retail clothing items)
Should this be the case, then it would be best to use an HTML tag, this can then automatically resize the image if it needs to. This in itself is a great solution, but has one very big downside, if the report needs to be printed, it won’t show the images. Purely because HTML tags are not resolved when viewed as a PDF.
plessiusa 
(BOB member since 2004-03-22)
Utility for building an image repository using Yahoo Image Search services and then making this content available for consumption by Business Objects tools. For a demo:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/f0a49c0c-4a32-2c10-3290-a1ec901bfb2d
See if this helps.
gorthous 
(BOB member since 2004-11-10)