Defining Display Icons

Icons are used to assist users in identifying different types of objects or instructions. A limited number of control tables allow administrative users to select an icon when they are configuring the system. Select Admin Menu > Display Icon Reference to maintain the population of icons available for selection.

Description of Page

Each icon requires the following information:

• Display Icon is a code that uniquely identifies the icon.
• Icon Type defines how big the icon is (in pixels). The permissible values are: 30 x 21, 21 x 21, and 20 x 14. Note that only icons that are 20 x 14 can be used on base package instructions.
• Description contains a brief description of the icon.
• URL describes where the icon is located. Your icons can be located on the product's web server or on an external web server.
• To add a new icon to the product web server, place it under the /cm/images directory under the DefaultWebApp. Then, in the URL field, specify the relative address of the icon. For example, if the icon's file name is myIcon.gif, the URL would be /cm/images/myIcon.gif.
  • If the icon resides on an external web server, the URL must be fully qualified (for example, http://myWebServer/images/myIcon.gif).
  • Owner indicates if this icon is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification). This information is display-only.

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_DISP_ICON.