How to have GIF image with action in Power BI?

Question

I like to have GIF image in Power BI report along with action for that image. Whenever I tried to import GIF image from the local system it becomes a static image.

For Eg., I have a couple of report page for analysis dashboard. I need to have Next gif image in Page1 with action to navigate Page2 and Previous gif image in Page2 with action to navigate Page1.

Answer 1

Add a column to your table/query with gif URLs. Change "Data category" of that column to "Image URL" and you are good to go.

Sample data you can try

let
    Source = Table.FromRows( 
               Json.Document(
                 Binary.Decompress(
                   Binary.FromText("i45WyigpKSi20tfP1EvPTEst0kvOz9V3zIlIA3GVYmMB",
                                    BinaryEncoding.Base64), 
                   Compression.Deflate)),
                   let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) 
                             in type table [#"Web link" = _t])
in
    Source

Here is the result:

---

Actually, I need to have next/previous gif image in my report.

In this case, you either need to find a visual that both can "play" gifs and supports action, or you can place a button over an image visual (image by cloudscope visual in this case. You can import it from the marketplace) and use it's "Action" property to navigate between pages. Note: button should be placed above the image visual in the selection pane

Here is how it looks like