Embed image(png or jpeg) in email as body or background, not as attachment

[jkim1012]

Hi. 

I have a dashboard saved in unix server as jpeg/png. Trying to send it to folks in email not as attachment. I have tried couple different ways, 

1. put image in proc report as style - it didn't transfer to email

2. ods html text ods html text='<img src="/xxx/images/xxx.jpg"></img>';

None of them worked well. Please help me getting this work out. 

Thanks!!

[AllanBowe · Accepted solution]

The best approach would be to move your png over to the content server and reference it there, but if that's not an option - there's the base64 fallback.

The 'trick' is to know that image files (such as a png) can be converted and read into your <img> tag as text - as explained in this communities post, the syntax is like:

<img src="data&colon;image/png;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAKL/AP//////
AMDAwMDAwICAgICA\AAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAB
AAAANFKEpMpjAKAkYYTkJqu2sbII6kSCzApXbqM1VrPLiUWpYGFwB
F7/+51ID3KwaHReNrlwS+iM0CTRTtTavSjWHL7W41YE0CADs=">

But how do you get your dashboard converted to base64 encoding?  Thankfully Michael Dixon has a SAS script that will do just that, check out this post.

Hopefully this will get you on your way.