Icon attribute cannot be added to a custom form?
 

For my knowledge workflow, I begin by capturing information from multiple sources. I like to assign icons to them for visual attribution e.g. Youtube, Wikipedia, PDF, etc. I have to visit the item attribute pane, locate the ICON attribute, then scroll it to find the icon I'm looking for.

I created a form and assigned to a text template. I noticed that I was unable to add the ICON attribute to this form because probably it is a SYSTEM attribute. Not sure why.

I found a workaround using flags. It allowed me to assign a Wikipedia icon to a flag. But I soon realized a limitation in that if I wanted to flag an item as complete, I loose the Wikipedia icon. It does not allow assigning two flags at the same time.

Questions ...
- Is it not allowed to add an ICON attribute to a user-defined form? Any other clever workarounds?
- Is it possible to define a new list attribute and populate it with icons?

Thanks

It is not possible. This was not implemented.

With some more research, I think I found a satisfactory workaround using text symbols instead of icons.

1- Get a symbol of your liking e.g. telephone, TV, airplane, etc.
- https://symbl.cc/
- www.hotsymbol.com

Both sites allow you to copy the symbol.

2- Create a new user-define attribute SOURCE_IMAGE of type string. Populate it with what you copied above. Examples ...
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3- Create a new form and add SOURCE_IMAGE attribute to it.

4- Set item template TITLE EXPRESSION to use new SOURCE_IMAGE e.g.

coalesce([SOURCE_IMAGE]||': '||[Item Title],[Item Title])


4- Once you set the SOURCE_IMAGE attribute to whatever item in the list, the item title will update. See image.

Very creative solution. Thanks for sharing.