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Feature Request FR-1704
Product Area Application Builder
Status DELIVERED

5 Voters

Allow easier editing of the application's icon (not the logo)

carlos.a.maciel APEX Team · Aug 18 2021

Feature Summary
Add an easier way to change the application icon, which is visible in the builder and on the default application login page.

Samples:

Use Case
Right now, editing the app's icon requires some workarounds that are a bit difficult for new users. They have to edit app-icon.css and app-icon.svg files in the Shared Components > Static Application Files using some text editor and it's not really user-friendly.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Ideally, allow the upload of a new file in a new section in Shared Components > User Interface Attributes (maybe call it Application Icon).

Alternatively, expose a way to edit it from the Developer Toolbar, similar to what users can do right now with the Logo Editor.

This has been delivered in Oracle APEX 22.1!

Comments

Comments

  • carlos.a.maciel APEX Team OP 3.9 years ago

    If implemented with what we currently have, we need to update both the CSS and SVG file on every new upload.

    CSS contents define some styles and even the background color:

    .app-icon {
    background-image: url(app-icon.svg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: cover;
    background-position: 50%;
    background-color: #2EBFBC;
}

    SVN file includes the actual lines for the logo.

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 3.9 years ago

    I've often run into this. I even just recently had a conversation about this too.

  • fac586 OP 3.7 years ago

    The whole files + CSS implementation is clunky and inelegant.

    Usually the first thing I do on creating a new application is delete the icon files, create an APP_ICON substitution string referencing a FontAPEX icon class, and use &APP_ICON. wherever the application icon is required. Easier to understand, simpler to maintain, more consistent with the rest of the UI, and it makes a much larger selection of possible icons available.

  • steve.muench APEX Team OP 3.6 years ago

    Currently 29 more votes for basically this same issue in 

    https://apex.oracle.com/ideas/FR-1817

    as noted therein by @fac586