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What is the desired URL for adding an image to a custom form designer in Power Automate Desktop

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Posted on by RickMa

Hi all,

I am trying to build a custom form in Power Automate Desktop to display an image which located in my local drive. The URL was like this file:///C:/Users/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxxx/Image/airplane299.png. However, the preview form never shows me the picture and it neither work when I run the automation. I wonder if some one had experience how to fill in the URL field in this custom form designer imag

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krisch4 26 on at

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Try using this instead:
C:/Users/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxxx/Image/airplane299.png

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RickMa 29 on at

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thanks for reply. I tried to take off the leading part before drive name but unfortunately it did not work to load the image in preview section.

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krisch4 26 on at

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Please see this: Create custom forms - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn
"Store the URL in a variable earlier in the flow, escape the percentage characters , and then use that variable in the URL property. The preview won't show the image, but it will be shown during runtime."

Please check if it works during runtime, also worth testing if storing the file-path in a variable earlier in the flow which you can use in the URL field in the custom form designer.
If you are unsure how to do this, just use the Set variable action, give the variable a suitable name, and type the file-path in the value field.

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RickMa 29 on at

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I use a set variable action to pre-store the value and assign it to the URL field of image element. However, it did not come when I click it to running mode.

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RickMa 29 on at

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Hi all,

I found this tutorial in Youtube Dialog windows and a new custom form dialog in Power Automate Desktop - YouTube which mentioned it is not able to use image in local drive as background of a custom form. It has to be a http or https link for image or URI data string and may conclude this topic

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JayeshThorat002 4 on at

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Dear,

Have you found any solution? I am also facing the same issue.

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RickMa 29 on at

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Unfortunately, it looks it has to be a http/https URL to display an image in custom form. Local file does not work at this moment.

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kinuasa 797 Most Valuable Professional on at

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For small image, dataURL can be used.

1. Use [Convert file to Base64] to encode an image file to Base64 encoding.
2. Set variable as dataURL(e.g., data: image/jpeg;base64,%Base64Text% ) using the [Set variable] action.
3. Set the above variable in the URL property of the custom form.

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JayeshThorat002 4 on at

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Thanks for the reply.. I will try n get back to you on this

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