I have been embedding images hosted in a Google Drive onto Quicksight dashboards for quite some time now by using the Custom Visual Content widget and changing the embed link to this format: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=[image_id] . However, over the past 24hrs, I have not been able to…

Hi @kristina.meadows & @Alsaks , Following-on, I’ve just found another workaround, detailed here under section “3. Generate Link” is a tool that provides an image URL that (from a quick test) does render in the custom visual with the “Show as image” toggle selected. Though, as @kristina.meadows men…

Hi @Alsaks , Thank you for letting us know, I’ve not tried embedding Google Drive images in this way before, so I ran a quick test with an image and shared it publicly, it had a different URL of https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXXX/view?usp=drive_link , but this also returned the error you reported. …

Hey Andrew @abacon , Thank you for your response. The link format you sent has never worked for that widget. The work around was you would need to take the file ID from the link you sent and add it in place of the [image_id] on the link format I shared in the original post. I’ve been using this …

Also having this same issue are there any updates? I have been using the embed link in this format: [ https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=[image_id] with no issues until the last few days. Suddenly, none of my images will load. Are there other potential ways we can host images? Thanks, Kri…

Hi @kristina.meadows & @Alsaks , This may be due to recent (2nd Jan 2024) Google Drive changes detailed here and here , but I will attempt to confirm this. As a possible workaround, I was able to get the image to display by using the following link format: https://drive.google.com/file/d/ <IMAGEID>/ p…

Hey @abacon , Thank you for your continued support on this issue! The second workaround does appear to be the solution, the first option did not work for me. In order to avoid imputing the link into a third-party website, I’ve followed the instructions found here My workaround is to upload the im…

Hey @abacon , Hope all is well. It appears that “fix” for this issue no longer works. Do you have any ideas into some other potential work arounds? Ideally, a future version of quicksight would let us natively host an image within a dashboard rather than it being a url link… Appreciate any help …

Hi @Alsaks . I heard this from one of our SAs. IIRC this is due to changes made by Google on how images are accessed…and we would need a change to allow Quick Sight to present Google hosted images. I am marking this as a feature request. @abacon

Issue with embedding image from Google Drive using Custom Visual Content widget

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kristina.meadows January 17, 2024, 4:16pm 6

Hi Abacon,
Confirming this link format did work, at least until Google changes something else! Thank you.
Kristina

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Issue with embedding image from Google Drive using Custom Visual Content widget

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