Customizing the icons.properties file

When you expand the list of documents in the Documents tab, each object is identified with an icon as well as the name assigned when the document was added. The icons.properties file defines mime-type icons to be used to indicate the document type. You can modify the icons and add new icons for new document and mime types.

The FileNet Workplace product also uses an instance of this file to define mime-type icons. If you make a change to one instance of the file, FileNet recommends that you make the same change to all instances of the file.

To modify or add icons for mime types, edit the icons.properties file located in the /TCM/WEB-INF folder. This file uses key/value pairs to map mime types to icon images. For example, in the following line, the Microsoft Word mime type on the left of the equal sign (key) is mapped to icon files that start with "Doc" (value).

application/msword=images/mime/Doc

The value includes the path to the icon files: images/mime. Therefore, you will find the icon files for the Microsoft Word mime type in /TCM/images/mime.

Two image files are included for each mime type, a small one (16x16 pixels) and a large one (32x32 pixels).

See Example icons.properties file for an example of the file. For information on customizing icons for Workplace, see Customizing icons.