Icons

The ALVAO Asset Management Console and ALVAO WebApp use various object icons. While small colored icons are suitable for the console, the icons are displayed as tiles in the WebApp. Files for these icons are therefore saved separately.

Object Icons in ALVAO Asset Management Console

Go to Tools – Lists – Icons to open the Icons window with a list of icons. You can edit this list using the buttons on the right-hand side of the window.

Follow the steps below to create a new icon:

1. First, prepare an icon image in a graphic editor. The size of the icon must be 16x16 points. You can create the icon in the Painting program which is shipped as a part of Windows. Then save your image as a BMP file, 16x16 points and 24-bit color depth (white color (R = 255, G = 255, B = 255) will be interpreted as transparent by the console).
2. Click on Add. A new item will appear in the list.
3. Right-click on the new item, select the Load icon from file command from the context menu and select the image file.

Object Icons in ALVAO WebApp

The icons are saved on the IIS server in the ALVAO WebApp application in the Content\NodeIcons folder, i.e. usually in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Alvao\Content\NodeIcons folder.

There are two kinds of icons available:

• System icons – icons for those kinds of objects which represent the assets most frequently confided to the users to use. Defined in the ALVAO default settings.
• Custom icons – icons for the rest of kinds of objects displayed by default as tiles without icons.

You can either add new (custom) icons, or change the system icons in the ALVAO WebApp. You need to save the file with exact name into Content\NodeIcons folder to do that. The naming method is different for system and custom icons.

System Icon Change

The files are named by a number (uid) corresponding to the system identifier of the icon.

Numeric identifiers can be found by the following query directly into the database:
SELECT [uid], txtDesc FROM tblIcon ORDER BY txtDesc

E.g. the 20.png file contains the Computer icon.

If you want to change the Computer icon, insert the icon file named 20.png into the folder.

Custom Icons

The uid column (see SQL query above) of these icons contains the NULL value.
They are named by the icon name.

You can find the selected object icon name by the following:
Select the object in the object tree in the AM Console, use the Edit command and click on the Change icon button in the dialog.
The Icons window will display, containing the list of icons including names. The given object icon will be selected in the list.
Example: VOIP Phone number.

Name the icon file, e.g. VOIP phone number.png by this name and save it into Content\NodeIcons folder.

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