Creating a use Dataset with Icons

CS Principles Unit and Lesson Discussion
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Is it possible to create your own dataset that includes links to images?

The Random Forecaster App in Unit 05, Lesson 12 uses icons that are provided by links. I have tried to create a dataset that also includes icons and I placed them in a shared good drive. While the icon link is present I get an error.

Error: Line: 9 "There is no property named "https://drive.google.com . . . "

So while the code sees the link, it does not seem to want to be displayed.
Using console log shows that the link is present in the list.

I see a couple of possible problems:

  1. My code is wrong
  2. I have linked the images incorrectly
  3. Perhaps only certain image formats are accepted
  4. Maybe a user created dataset cannot include images
  5. Perhaps I need to use something other than a shared google drive.

Any help from others who have created datasets with a column including image links would be helpful

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I don’t have a definitive answer, but I have two thoughts… first might be that you need to make the drive file available to all - perhaps double check your share settings? The second is that I believe all code.org is storing in a dataset is the url as a string. I don’t see why that wouldn’t be something you can do as well! Have you tried to create a sample dataset with images hosted elsewhere online (ie. pixabay or another easy access tool) to try to pinpoint the location of the error?