# Displaying a .jpg that is stored in ignition db on a perspective screen directly from db

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-a-jpg-that-is-stored-in-ignition-db-on-a-perspective-screen-directly-from-db/57318 "2022-03-17T16:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![J\_West](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@J\_West](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/J_West)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-a-jpg-that-is-stored-in-ignition-db-on-a-perspective-screen-directly-from-db/57318/1 "2022-03-17T16:44:59Z")

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Is there a good way to display a .jpg directly from ignition db in an image object or similar. Much of what i’m reading on the subject doesn’t seem viable in perspective.

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**Author:** ![bpreston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@bpreston](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bpreston)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-a-jpg-that-is-stored-in-ignition-db-on-a-perspective-screen-directly-from-db/57318/2 "2022-03-17T16:53:38Z")

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Looks like this talks about what your looking to do.  
[View Images from Database - Ignition Early Access - Inductive Automation Forum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/view-images-from-database/22626/5)

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**Author:** ![J\_West](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@J\_West](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/J_West)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-a-jpg-that-is-stored-in-ignition-db-on-a-perspective-screen-directly-from-db/57318/3 "2022-03-17T17:27:58Z")

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I set everything up exactly like this (to my knowledge) and the image isn’t displaying. The transform, not pictured is:  
b64Image = “data:imagef;base64,%s”%value

```
return b64Image

```

I’m not getting any error messages and the output listed in the source of the image is: data:imagef;base64,com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.datasource.BasicStreamingDataset@b429429

Am i missing something?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/5/d5adca6b84d4446c27968ea53522d9691a05e546.png)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-a-jpg-that-is-stored-in-ignition-db-on-a-perspective-screen-directly-from-db/57318/4 "2022-03-17T17:29:30Z")

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Return format: scalar