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lakslaks 

Uploading images to Rich text area field using Dataloader

Hi All,

 

Is it possible to upload images to a Rich text area field using Apex data loader ?

 

 

Regards,

Lakshmi.

phiberoptikphiberoptik

Using the Data Loader, yes.

 

The way I know how to do it is via a web link, so the image must be hosted on the web. The format for the Rich Text field in the .csv file should be:

 

<img alt="User-added image" _fcksavedurl="insert image URL between quotes" src="insert image URL between quotes">

 

 

There may be another way, but this is the only way I know.

MattLacey.ax1065MattLacey.ax1065

If you need to embed the image directly, you shoudl be able to do so if you base64 encode the image data and put it in the src attribute.

The image below has been added to this post using that method (HTML source is below).



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Dennis PoetschDennis Poetsch
The solution @phiberoptic proposed worked perfectly for me, thanks!