How can I add my own custom icons to MadCap IXIA CCMS?

You can add custom icons to the system\conf\icons folder in the TEXTML Administration perspective.

Description

I would like to add some custom icons.

Solution

Create an icon (16 by 16 pixels), commit it to TEXTML Server, and associate it to the object.

To add an icon:

  1. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, navigate to system/conf/icons.
  2. Right-click the icons folder and select Insert Documents.
  3. Click Add File, select your new icon, and click OK.
  4. Navigate to system/conf.
  5. Right-click equivalence.xml and click Check Out.
  6. Double-click equivalence.xml to open it in the XML editor.
  7. Depending on what you want to do, either edit an existing entry or add a new one. For example, if you wanted to change the icon for maps, you could do the following:
    <equivalence type="map"> 
    <object type="map" icon="/system/conf/icons/NewMap-icon.png"/>  
    <object type="ixiamap"/> 
    <object type="bookmap" icon="/system/conf/icons/Bookmap-icon.png"/>  
    </equivalence>
  8. Save the equivalence.xml file.
  9. Right-click equivalence.xml and then click Check In.
  10. Inform users of the changes and request that they close and reopen their IXIA CCMS Desktop to apply the changes.
Note: User-defined icons are stored in the work space as: workspace\REPOSITORY\user\system\conf\icons