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Microsoft dynamics Mediaset Datatype and SSRS


I have a table called Item in Microsot Dynamics (NAV).

One of the requirement is to display a picture that is attached to the item.

The SQL datatype of this field is "uniqueidentifier".

However, when looking at the development environment for dynamics, I see the following:

MediaSet

How do I retrieve and show this image in an SSRS report please?


Solution

  • For any one looking at this. Navision Dynamics stores images as Mediasets.

    These references are stored in the [Tenant Media Set] table and the actual image is in the [Tenant Media Thumbnails] table.

    The images are stored as a BLOB . To be able to display these in an SSRS report, you need to ensure that the Compression is set to NO on the field that holds the image. Field name is [Content]

    Here is the SQL Query :

    SELECT  ID, [Media ID], [Content], [Mime Type], Height, Width
    FROM  [Tenant Media Thumbnails]
    

    You can them simply display this field in the report by applying the following properties to an Image

    enter image description here