Strategy ONE

Ensure Access to Images

To ensure images are available, save your image files on a web server that all your MicroStratregy products, including Intelligence Server, can use and access. When you add the image to a document, use an HTTP reference to that accessible web server machine, such as http://microstrategy/Test/myimage.jpg.

If you cannot store and access images on a web server, you can store images at an alternative network location and use either a full or relative path.

An advantage of using a full path is that the image does not need to be duplicated on each machine. This is because MicroStrategy Developer, Intelligence server, and the Web server access the images from the same location.

Some advantages of using partial or relative paths:

  • The path of the image is not part of the document definition. If the path changes, you do not have to manually change the image path in the document.
  • The image is copied onto different machines, so your users do not need access to the same machine.
  • You can display a different image in the document for each machine used to access the image.

    • Use a high resolution image for mobile and a lower resolution image for the web. Save the high resolution image to the Mobile server and the lower resolution one to the web server. Give both images the same name and use a relative path to locate the appropriate image.

Path Type

Where to Save Images

HTTP

An accessible web server machine that all your MicroStrategy products, including Intelligence Server, can use and access.

Avoid using spaces in the URL. On UNIX machines, images with spaces in their URLs cannot display in PDFs. You can remove the space from the image name or replace the space with %20.

In most instances, you can find the path and file name of images to use by viewing the source of a Web page.

This is the recommended method for storing images.

Example: http://microstrategy/Test/myimage.jpg

Full Path

A shared network drive. All users, the Intelligence Server, and the Web server must be able to access the drive. If you are adding the image to the document in MicroStrategy Developer, then MicroStrategy Developer must also be able to access the drive.

Example: \\my_computer\shared\myimage.jpg

Partial or Relative Path

The folder where the product you want to use to accesses the image. Save the image in the images folder where the product is installed. If you want all MicroStrategy products to access the image, save the image in each image folder for each product.

Example: images\myimage.jpg