Icons and pictures

You use icon and pictures to represent records on iBase link charts, on Analyst's Notebook charts, and in iBase.

There are two field types:

Icon fields

Icon fields are used to select an icon to represent the record. Select an icon name from the list for the field. To use the standard icon for the entity type, select the blank option at the top of the list. The standard icon for each entity type is specified in iBase Designer. If there is no blank option, then the field is mandatory and you must choose an icon from the list.

To change the icon shading color, select Edit > Assign Icons.

Note: Not all entity types have an icon field. To change the icon for an entity that doesn't have an icon field, you can also use Assign Icons.

Picture fields

Picture fields are used to store graphics, such as photographs, in the record so that you can display the actual graphics on charts rather than using icons.

To add a graphic to a record, load it by using a picture type field. For more information, see Documents and hyperlinks.

A picture can be used instead of the icon to represent the record on charts:

• Select Tools > Options > Charting and turn on Chart pictures to represent records instead of their icons.