Displaying images that are accessed through URL

Hi,

I have trouble displaying images that are accessed through URLs in my report.
If I call the URL directly in the Browser the Image can be opened without problems.
The images can be accessed with an anonymous access.

When I deploy the report or in the Preview of Visual Studio I get the following message:

[rsWarningFetchingExternalImages] Images with external URL references will not display if the report is published to a report server without an UnattendedExecutionAccount or the target image(s) are not enabled for anonymous access.

In Layout View of Visual Studio the image is showen correctly.

The Images are stored on a Solaris maschine with WebSphere 6.0 as WebServer.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Frank

You need to configure unattended execution account: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156302.aspx

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I configured the unattended execution account, but there I can only use windows user. The images are on a Sun Server with Solaris 9 (Unix) which has different users. Allthough the Images can be accessed without any authorisation, so I think I don't need the unattended execution account.

Any more ideas

Thank you

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Have you ever figured this out? I am having the same issue, but the file is on the report server. Actually, it's not an image file, but an ASP.Net web application that creates an image on the fly. Like you, I can get it to come up in the development environment or if I enter the URL directly, but it won't appear in the deployed report.

I have set the unattended execution account, restarted IIS, set permissions to the app's dll everywhere I could think... nothing works.

Interestingly, if you look at the report's source, you can see the images "src" attribute is an empty string, so the report renderer is blocking it.

|||Has anyone found a resolution for this. I have taken the same steps and still only get the RED X in the image space. Account used for unattended execution has admin rights and I can see the image when calling the URL directly from IE.|||

i am also desperately looking for a resolution here|||

I enabled anonymous access and that solved my issue.

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I found the solution for my problem. The mime type for the images was not set on the WebSphere Server.

After I set the mime type on the WebSpere Server, the images where shown correctly.

I hope this helps.

Frank