Link External Graphic from within VC

Is there a way to link external image content (in this case, a dynamically generated graphic) into a VC-created page? The graphic is accessible via a URI (ideally the URI could contain embedded values passed from other components on the page).

Hi,
You can do that if you map a calculated field (a field with a CALC dynamic expression) to the url field of the HTML view.
This way you can dynamically create the url and pass it on to the html view.
Lior

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