NetSuite Advanced PDF/HTML - Displaying images with URL from custom field

Instead of Hyperlink use image datatype for your custom field.

You can also use a workflow to link the Hyperlink custom field to a Free-Form text field with the Store Value field checked.

Look under SuiteAnswers ID: 89195

The Hyperlink field type will return an entire HTML tag when calling for the field like this: ${result.custitem_dp_image1}

<a href="image_url.jpg">image name</a>

So if you add it to the HTML or tag, it would break because it would look something like this:

<img src="<a href="image_url.jpg">image name</a>">

Freemaker has functions to trim data ?keep_after and ?keep_before So you could use this to bring just the actual URL:

result.custitem_dp_image1?keep_after('href="')?keep_before('"')

In a nutshell, everything after the href=" and everything before the ":

BUT you cant use this inside the "src" tag as it would break the HTML code. You have double quotes inside the Freemaker function and HTML would think the src tag ended at that particular location.

So to circumvent that, I'll insert the code in a variable (either global or assign) and then use just the variable in the SRC tag.

<#global custom_url = result.custitem_dp_image1?keep_after('href="')?keep_before('"')>

<img src="${custom_url}">

Oh, just my 2 cents, Users will likely want to keep the Hyperlink field type as its clickable in the User UI.

You can add @url to the end of the field reference to just get it as text so you can format your own link so for my requirements with the stripe netsuite connector where I want to use the html field with my own text in it I use

<a href="${record.custbody_stripe_payment_link@url}">Pay Now</a>

and your one would be something like this

<#if result.custitem_dp_image1?length != 0><img src="${result.custitem_dp_image1@url}" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;" /> </#if>

Sometimes you just have to wait a few years for the answer.