topic Custom icons for space in Alfresco Archive

Custom icons for space

bgl — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:27:55 GMT

Hi,I would like to have a custom icon for a given type of space. I have created a new type (v:voyage-simple) that extends cm:folder.In the web-client-config-custom.xml, I have set the following: <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Space Wizards"> <folder-types> <typ

Re: Custom icons for space

gavinc — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:30:16 GMT

Let me clarify a few things….

Are you creating your spaces of type v:voyage-simple through the 'Advanced Space Wizard' or via the 'Create Space' dialog?

If you use the former your space should have the correct icon.

The config you have for the icons is slightly incorrect, you need to define a unique name and place your icon in the correct place i.e. you'll need:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="v:voyage-simple icons">
    <icons>
      <icon name="space-icon-voyage" path="/images/icons/space-icon-voyage.gif"/>
    </icons>
  </config> ‍‍‍‍‍

Basically what happens is the app:icon property stores the name of the icon i.e. "space-icon-voyage", then depending on the scenario the path to the image is calculated i.e. for different sizes. If you look in the /images/icons folder you'll see various images with similar names i.e.

You will therefore need to put your custom icon file in this location and also supply a 16x16 version (the 2 png images are used by the new web scripts stuff so it depends if you are using them whether you need the png versions)

Hopefully that will help!

Re: Custom icons for space

bgl — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:01:29 GMT

Hi Gavin,

Thanks a lot for your answer. It is working perfectly. I thought I needed to override existing definition for spaces instead of defining something new. Knowing this, your solution is very logical.

To answer your question, I create my space through the advanced space wizard. But I don't see how I could create it from "Create Space" since this action, I can only create "regular" spaces using this menu, isn't it ?

Thanks again for your very clear and sharp answer.

Boris

Re: Custom icons for space

gavinc — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:06:55 GMT

Correct, you can only create 'regular' spaces through the dialog, I was just trying to get an idea of what steps you had taken, but if it's working now thats great!

Re: Custom icons for space

jzaruba — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:11:07 GMT

Is it possible to 1) change space-icon-default and 2) make it PNG, please?