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Alteryx Designer Cookbook
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Including images in our reports can enhance their visual appeal and, simultaneously, help our audience to better understand what we are trying to convey. When you’re processing batch reports – say, for different clients – you’ve probably come across the need to incorporate the logos of those companies into a corresponding report. Doing this manually would be time-consuming, so we will use Alteryx’s capabilities to automatically achieve these customized reports in this recipe.
In the previous chapter, we learned how to read binary fields and/or files using Blobs. In the case of images, Alteryx has a specialized tool that allows us to read JPG, PNG, and GIF files from the hard drive, or a shared directory on the network.
We have a test set ready for you to follow along with this recipe here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Alteryx-Designer-Cookbook.
We will start with a dataset, which...