Calling image through html in narrative view (OBIEE 12c)

marcobalduini

Hi all,

I've a strange issue;

just migrated to OBIEE 12 (12.2.1.2.0).

I'm trying to use a narrative view to display an image; using

<img src="http://serverpath/logo.png">

Same code in 11g works fine.

Any idea?

Thanks

Marco

marcobalduini

Foud this note:

https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/biee/BIESG/answersconfigset.htm#BIESG9326

maybe is the right path?

M

Gianni Ceresa

Hi Marco,

If images comes from a different domain than OBIEE you are hitting the CSP security (Content Security Policy).

It's a protection not loading objects from other domains to avoid XSS & co.

You find details on how to whitelist your domain to allow to load the images in the doc: https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/biee/BIESG/answersconfigset.htm#BIESG9326

But first open the developer toolbar of your browser and make sure that's the issue (the message is in general quite explicit).

You can find an example of configuration of CSP here: https://gianniceresa.com/2016/10/google-map-in-an-obiee-12c-analysis/

It was about allowing to embed Google Maps so the config required is a big more, in your case just one block to allow images from your domain and done. (Please do not totally turn off CSP as some may suggest, it's there to protect your system).

marcobalduini

Gianni,

thanks for the answer; I think this is the issue

...maybe to get things simple we will use same fmap path to store images since there is no need to put them on a different server.

Kind Regards

M

[Deleted User]

+1 !

Additionally you will get the added benefit of - if you nicely deploy things in a custom deployment like analyticsRes - then you can bundle things in a way which makes them  usable for standard deployment processes.

Gianni Ceresa

+1 to Christian with analyticsRes: it will works fine as it's served from the same domain as OBIEE (=> no CSP).

In case you need details it's here: https://gianniceresa.com/2016/12/deploy-custom-folder-obiee-12c-analyticsres/

[Deleted User]

I forgot to put the link? How great :-(

André-Nogueira

To put some images on the 12c, you cant upload in "edit dashboard" and use Link or Image (50kb limit)

I dont know if help you, but is a free tip

Here.