I was trying to create a dashboard using new image role function. However, I was struggled to add image using urls that don't have extensions (such as jpg,png etc.) included in the url. example:
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5603AQF8paxRmnuJxg/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1517556808961?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=NBYea9Qtpy7LNtCZ0nC80pdz6NkOXXPGLnTNFL1QY_Y
I understood this is from LinkedIn and the link might change within certain period of time but this is accessible via web browser when I was testing this.
Wondering if you guys have any ways to display this image in Tableau.
I've tried modified the url by adding '' but it's still not working. The image is also accessible by using 'Web Page' Object.
I have minimal knowledge of coding but I just spent the past 6 hours trying to resolve this issue.
Go here to see the image I am trying to have load.
If I am suppose to chance the SRC lines, how and where do I do that?
The HTML image loads perfectly from my computer.
Like what #mlegg said, I get the same error when trying to go to your link. It looks like that is no longer a valid URL or there is some form of security on it so it's only accessible from your computer (since you said it works from your computer?).
It could also be getting pulled from your browser cache if it was a good URL at one time. Try doing a Shift + Refresh of the page or purposely clear your cache.
If you have the image locally you could try uploading to a different web based repository and src it from there.
Just to cover all bases, I trust you know how to put an image on a web page using the img tag:
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/400/200/">
You might also want to try a different image that you know is available and accessible. You can use the URL above for lorempixel.com or you can scrounge up a different image from a Google Images search.
I know you can share messages with and this is working on android and ios now:
Share with whatsapp
However I'd like to share an image trough a button on my website like someone would share an image from his phone (gallery). Is this anyhow possible?
One solution that comes to mind is uploading a photo to your server via AJAX, returning the link to the uploaded photo and then sending a message with the link to your photo using the method you described in your question. This is not quite the same as sending an image directly using Whatsapp since the recipient would only receive a link, but I doubt there will ever be a way to send an image to another application from your gallery using a webpage since that would raise some serious concerns.
Roughly, the process would like this (keep in mind that this will require some testing to get right and find a solution that works well on all platforms or at least most of them):
Create an image upload on your website. Simply having <input type="file" accept="image/*"> on your page should, on most platforms, allow you to create a button which will open a dialog to select an image from your phone's gallery when clicked. You can find a full example here or use a library such as Plupload which contains many upload methods, including HTML5 which is what you need.
Create a simple server-side upload. This depends on your language and platform, but all you need to do is store the image somewhere and return a link to it in response. If you don't want to store these images on your server, you could forward it to Imgur API and upload there.
Redirect the user to the whatsapp:// link that contains the image link.
window.location = 'whatsapp://send?text='+encodeURIComponent(imageURL);
This is the point where you need to do some testing on different platforms, though. You might not be able to redirect to a whatsapp:// link this way (since it seems like a security concern), so you may need to trick it (this is a bad idea, but I'm including it for the sake of completeness; the data-action part is from this answer):
var fakeLink = document.createElement('a');
fakeLink.setAttribute('href', 'whatsapp://send?text='+encodeURIComponent(imageURL));
fakeLink.setAttribute('data-action', 'share/whatsapp/share');
fakeLink.click();
In the end, if neither of these work, your best bet is creating a link once the upload is complete for the user to "confirm" sending which actually contains the above whatsapp:// link in the href field.
There are many factors to test and some that are implementation specific so I had to keep it vague without much code - if you come across anything else when implementing this, please mention it in the comments.
What I exactly need is to load and show images from a location external to the application's. As the photos are constantly changing my proposal was to load them from the Camera Directory so that it's as simply as storing in that folder the images.
The specific need here is:
How can I load and show on an img tag element an image from the camera directory?
Raymond Camden has very good tutorials on some basic uses and some cool features that a developer can use with PhoneGap. In your case, he has a tutorial that semi-relates to you question. He gives the sourcecode with the tutorial so I'm sure you'll be able to extrapolate from there. Basically it's a little Diary app that you can add a picture to. I'm sure you'll be interested in the picture part of the app.
I simply want to embed a PDF file in a web site.
The best solution I've found is Google Docs Viewer (http://docs.google.com/viewer), but it does not work for IE and obviously that is not going to work for me.
Anyone have a clean, easy solution to this?
Update: I should add that one of the benefits of embedding the PDF file the Google viewer way is that as the PDF file I link to gets updated (and it could without notice to me), my site would automatically be holding the same PDF file (provided the full pathname doesn't change, which it does not). For this reason converting the file to an image is not preferred while.
Well since you obviously don't want to force someone to download the bloated insecure pdf plugin, why not let them use the bloated insecure flash player?
http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/
But really it is just a simple as
<iframe src="path/to/pdf" width="500" height="700">
If you do stick with the pdf embedded option, Byron is right although embedded pdf files don't look so great on a webpage. Anyway, be sure to be strict about the coding. Hence:
<iframe src="path/to/pdf" width=500 height = 700>
Should be
<iframe src="path/to/pdf" width="500" height="700">
Small alteration.
Updated answer for HTML5:
<object data="filename.pdf" type="application/pdf">
Your browser does not support pdfs, <a href="filename.pdf">click here to
download the file.</a>
</object>
You can read about it here:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp
How long is the pdf file? Can't you convert it to a very long image and display that in a div with a scrollbar?
Probably the best approach is to use the PDF.JS library. It's a pure HTML5/JavaScript renderer for PDF documents without any third-party plugins.
Online demo: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
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You can also use Google PDF viewer for this purpose. As far as I know it's not an official Google feature (am I wrong on this?), but it works for me very nicely and smoothly. You need to upload your PDF somewhere before and just use its URL:
<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://example.com/mypdf.pdf&embedded=true" style="width:718px; height:700px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
I just ftp mine, I do not use Google or any other s/w
you must have some need other than a PDF file sitting in a directory, what is it?
Also, why would you convert the image (and reduce PDF resolution and clarity) ?
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That is the ugliest thing I have seen since my last trip to Africa. You are not seriously thinking of posting that much information on a single page, are you. No one can read it, and I tried every magnification.
For that amount of info, you need to take an architectural approach.
Put a few controls on the front page, and feed the user a small amount of manageable info, about the area that they chose. Only.
Get the info from the source website/database and feed it into your website/database. Only needs to change when the source data changes. The whole linkage can be automated.
Then you just create nice clean pages, with a reasonable quantity of info, in a readable form, on each page.
This is a 20th Century Timetable. Note, not a 21st century timetable (look at Berlin or München for one of those). You really can't just scan an intense doc and provide it as an embedded PDF.
Note that you do not need the elaborate controls of CityRail. you can have just a few to allow select of the line and timetable.
then produce a page that is a simple form of the CityRail page.
or (the absolute minimum) one fully viewable, full size PDF per web page.
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Like this simple viewable PDF. That example could be served up in one PDF for page 1 and 4 separate PDF pages for the rest; PDFs already have basic navigation, so I have used that feature and produced one 5-pager instead. Make sure you find and use the blue glass buttons and follow the navigation hints on the left top and bottom of each page.
Second to demonstrating the PDFs and navigation, look at the folder: the files are all PDFs.
Back to the original question. Now you can embed PDFs, but if you do, please do not mess with them. All the controls you have on the linked page are redundant; any browser facilitiates that even now, and will be doing so better in future. Eg. in simple viewable PDF, use your browser controls to increase/decrease magnification, move around the doc, etc.
Let's assume you finish your Google Maps page, that's the first or index page. Draw all the train lines in; when the user clicks on a train line, it takes them to either (a) a clean page produced from your db as per (1) which will look like (2), or (b) a single clean PDF in readable form as per (3). You could do the whole project just by manipulating files in directories.
A lot less work. No Google docs; no intermediate s/w to constrict you or work around. You can forget about IE and its multiple incarnations and strangulations; any other browser and its limitations. Concentrate on the data, and getting it out there in presentable form, not on the pitiful s/w and its fits and starts.
Cheers
From HTML5 :
<embed src="url" type="media-type" height="" width=""/>
For media-type refer, http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online.
Here's the code I used to embed the PDF file:
but you should replace the bold URL with your own address. As I mentioned, the document viewer works for PDF and PPT files.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document-viewer.html