# Dynamic image in report 7.9

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamic-image-in-report-7-9/12457>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 12, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamic-image-in-report-7-9/12457 "2016-12-12T15:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_msp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@the\_msp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/the_msp)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamic-image-in-report-7-9/12457/1 "2016-12-12T15:08:37Z")

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Trying to insert an image into a report, the image (a screenshot of a boxplot from a vision client) is captured by a script and inserted to SQL server as a varbinary (I searched for blob and apparently this is the modern day equivalent?).

How do I then get this inserted into a report? Tried doing a select from DB query, and dragging that datasource to the design, I just get a single “a” character displayed.

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**Author:** ![the\_msp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@the\_msp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/the_msp)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamic-image-in-report-7-9/12457/2 "2016-12-13T08:13:31Z")

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OK after a nights sleep and despite reading the manual yesterday I read it again and have it working (drag the image datasource to the key property on the image component).