Displaying images when report is requested via Webservice

As the <property name="html-image-base-uri"> doesn’t seem to exist in Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.6.2, generated graphs won't be displayed because the image path is set to "./cache9238472093487.jpg" instead of “http://servername:9704/xmlpserver/xdo/temp/cache20349823094.jpg"
+Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher User's Guide Release 10.1.3.2+
+http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10091_01/doc/bip.1013/b40017/T421739T421745.htm#T473675+
Versus
+Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)+
+http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e22255/runtime_config.htm#htmlo+
I'm curious to see if there is a solution for this problem, because if there isn't only requesting PDF or MHTML formats make sense.
Is there a new setting replacing the html-image-base-uri property? Is there another viable way embedding Publisher reports in our ADF application?

This is being seen when running the report from within our application. The report itself has been created and designed from within CR Designer v10. The actual report that the images are on is a on a subreport. The reason for this is that the main report needs to show a different number of images, either 1, 2, 4 or 6, depending on how many images are linked to the data in the database.
We are using the CR SDK designed for use with Borland Delphi 7.

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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Value of primary key column 1.
p_v2
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in your select statement you can check if the employee has not its picture or picture field is null then return logo. for this you have to assign some default value to the field Like 'N' is default value for picture field so when there is not picture or field is null then 'N' will be its default value and you can check in your query like
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