Displaying images from a shared drive

[chris-bib]

I have been trying to get images from a shared drive (to which every user of the App has access) to show in my App, to no avail. I have tried several different things in an attempt to get this to work, but none of them seem to make a difference.

My table has a column "Artwork ID", which contains the ID of the image file in the shared drive. I am then attempting to use a virtual column with the type "Image" to render the images in the App using the formula `=CONCATENATE("https://drive.google.com/uc?id=", [Artwork ID])`. This results in a grey exclamation mark in the area where the image should be.

I have tried the following:

• Making a shortcut to the specific shared drive folder inside the "My Drive/appsheet/data/[project-name]" folder, with no improvement
• Moving a test image to that location itself, with the same issue
• Making a copy of the App to the shared drive, in which the images still did not render

All of the app users have access to the shared drive.

Ideally, the images would be in product-specific subfolders inside the shared drive. Is this feasible? Please let me know what options I have, as all the examples above from other solutions have not worked. Thanks!

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

I believe Google stopped supporting serving the images through URL, earlier this year. Please see the announcement below.

[Action required] Drive download URLs for embedda... - Google Cloud Community

Please see the help article below 

Please see the section "URL Values"  and  "File Name" values in this article below.

Display images, documents, and audio files - AppSheet Help

Essentially, please have the image subfolders within the app's root folder.

[Steve]

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@Suvrutt_Gurjar wrote:

Essentially, please have the image subfolders within the app's root folder.

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Or create a shortcut within the app's folder that points to the folder containing the images. Make sure the owner of the app has access to the target of the shortcut and the files to make available through the app.

[chris-bib]

Would the files then need to be accessed using a formula which generates a file path, as opposed to a URL, like @Suvrutt_Gurjar mentioned?

[Steve]

You would still use @Suvrutt_Gurjar's approach.