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Feature Request FR-3622
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Status CLOSED

24 Voters

Field type: Icon picker, for a simple visual selection of icons within applications

charles.cowan Public · Feb 14 2024

Idea Summary
For applications that use icons that are data / context based there is a need to configure such icons within the applications.  I'd imagine this is almost trivial since it already more or less exists within applicatoin builder.

Use Case
Typically applications may have configuration or lookup tables - let's say a list of categories (such as a business area) for great ideas such as this…  we typically have a field for the icon name where a user will enter say “fa-dollar” or “fa-lightbulb-o” for example.   When an administrator adds a new category they would need to know the icon names or open up the icons page on apex.oracle.com/ut.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
A field type of “Icon picker”  something simple and pre-defined like a date-picker would work.

This is a great idea! You can already achieve this in APEX today with a slightly different approach.

Known Duplicates

Known duplicates

FR-3938
FR-3938 Component to let the end user select a Font APEX icon

Comments

Comments

  • aaron OP 1.3 years ago

    Does that mean that an image of a BLOB field type is displayed in the system?

  • fac586 OP 1.3 years ago

    @a_yun73 Does that mean that an image of a BLOB field type is displayed in the system?

    No, it refers to use of the FontAPEX icon font.

  • greg OP 1.3 years ago

    I like this idea. I wonder if it could be more genericized to allow for something like a more configurable Quick Pick.

  • vincent morneau Admin OP 1.1 years ago

    I can definitely see a need for an icon picker. However APEX has a dynamic icon library architecture. Font APEX being the default, but you can change it. Because of this flexibility we can't enforce a single icon library in a new item type, because that would create a false dependency between the native item type and the icon library.

    That said, in APEX 24.1 with the new Select One/Many, you can design a select list to display any icon LOV you wish, with the icon preview. That might give you even more control to display the icons that are relevant to your application context.