Display images, thumbnails, drawings, and signatures in templates as described in the following sections:
- Include image, thumbnail, drawing, and signature columns in templates
- Control the display of images, thumbnails, drawings, and signatures
- Link to an image
Include image, thumbnail, drawing, and signature columns in templates
You can include image, thumbnail, drawing, and signature columns in templates.
For example, if your Image
column is called MyPhoto
, you could include it as follows:
Name: <<[Name]>>
Photo: <<[MyPhoto]>>
Address: <<[Home Address]>>
Control the display of images, thumbnails, drawings, and signatures
By default, the image, thumbnail, drawing, and signature columns are displayed as images. The display image size depends on the column type, as follows:
Column type |
Default display size |
Drawing |
600x600 |
Image |
600x600 |
Signature |
600x600 |
Thumbnail |
200x200 |
You can create a format rule to control how the image, thumbnail, drawing, and signature values are displayed, including:
-
Whether each value is displayed as an image or a URL
-
The size of each displayed value
To create a format rule to control the display of the columns:
- Open the AppSheet Editor.
- Go to App > Format Rules.
We've made some improvements to the app editor.
You are opted in to the new editor by default, but you can switch back to the legacy editor at any time.If you are using the legacy navigation
Go to UX > Format Rules. - Click + New Format Rule.
- Choose the table containing the Drawing, Image, Signature, or Thumbnail column in the For this data field.
- Select one or more columns to format in the Format these columns and actions field.
- Choose one of the following for Image format under Template format:
Large: Display as 1000 x 1000 image
Medium: Display as a 600 x 600 image
Small: Display as a 200 x 200 image
Tiny: Display as a 50 x 50 image
Text: Display as a URL
Link to an image
To link to an image, use a hyperlink expression.