How to display images dynamically in BI Publisher reports in Oracle Fusion

Alright, so you have a set of images (say a few company Logos) that you want to display dynamically in your report based on some criteria.

Let's see how to achieve this in ERP Cloud BI Publisher.

• First step is to convert convert the image file(s) into base64 encoding. You can use any open source web based tool to convert a given image and retrieve it's corresponding Base64 data.
  
  

• Now you should have the base64 encoding representation of the image(s). 
  For example the following image has the below base64 representation -
  
  Image - 
  
  
  
  
  
  Base64 data -
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Create the data model that decides which image should be displayed for a particular set of data depending on the required conditions and ensure to select the actual Base64 data as one of the XML tags.

• Now, let's see how we can convert Base64 information in RTF and display it as an image.
  
  

• This can be done using "foreign object" construct like this -
  <fo:instream-foreign-object content-type="image/jpg"><?IMAGE1?></fo:instream-foreign-object>
  
  Here IMAGE1 is a tag containing Base64 data of the image in your XML output.
  
  

• XML data should look like this -
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Below is how your template will look like -
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And here's the output of your report showing the image dynamically -