# External images

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-images/34823>\
**Category:** External Collections, Custom Actions & Collections\
**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-images/34823 "2022-12-29T13:46:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DHafner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/dhafner/32/25426_2.png) [@DHafner](https://forum.adalo.com/u/DHafner)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-images/34823/1 "2022-12-29T13:46:01Z")

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Hey everyone,

I am trying to populate my Adalo app with a Bubble database and show a list of events and services. These things have images in Bubble, but when I connect Adalo through the API, it looks like it is populating these “image” fields as “text” in Adalo, so there is no way to display these images anywhere.

Has anyone seen this happen before or know what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Dilon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/dilon/32/39815_2.png) [@Dilon](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Dilon)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-images/34823/2 "2022-12-29T14:20:22Z")

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Hi @DHafner,

> [@DHafner](#):
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> it looks like it is populating these “image” fields as “text” in Adalo, so there is no way to display these images anywhere.

That text property gives you the URL of the image right? I guess it is! Now you can add the image component and populate it with that URL. Before doing that select URL in this drop down.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/adalo/original/3X/2/f/2fbaf35b05eb4704562fd83457b011a28ab4b719.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/adalo/original/3X/8/4/841035ec201279c2be11aa605406985bb34278f3.png)

Thank you

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**Author:** ![DHafner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/dhafner/32/25426_2.png) [@DHafner](https://forum.adalo.com/u/DHafner)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-images/34823/3 "2022-12-29T14:34:42Z")

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Ahhh…that makes sense. I was thrown off because it was mapping a “image” field type to “text” but that makes sense it would be a URL. Awesome, I’ll give that a try…thanks!