Display images, thumbnails, drawings, and signatures in templates

Display images, thumbnails, drawings, and signatures in templates as described in the following sections:

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:

  1. Open the AppSheet Editor.
  2. 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.  
  3. Click New Format Rule.
  4. Choose the table containing the Drawing, Image, Signature, or Thumbnail column in the For this data field.
  5. Select one or more columns to format in the Format these columns and actions field.
  6. 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.

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