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Limitations of schema generation

In general, there is a high degree of compatibility between the iBase schema and the i2 Analyze schema that you create from it. However, there are some differences that the creation process cannot resolve.

Incompatible logical types

The following iBase logical types have no corresponding types in i2 Analyze. The schema generator does not generate property types from iBase fields that have the following logical types:

Custom icons

If the iBase database uses custom icons, then the i2 Analyze deployment must include corresponding icon files. In iBase, mappings for both standard and custom icons appear in the Iconlist.txt file, which by default you can find in the C:\Program Files (x86)\i2 iBase 9\Resources\en-US\Configuration directory.

The start of the file looks like this:

Account	account
Action	action
Adult	adult
Aeroplane	airplane
Afghanistan	Flag AF
Air Rifle	Air Rifle
Airplane	airplane
Airport	airterm

Where the syntax of each line is:

<iBase icon name> <Tab character> <File name of PNG file>

If there are custom additions to the Iconlist.txt file, you need to make the icons available to i2 Analyze as well. To do this, create a folder named icons in the toolkit/configuration/fragments/common directory and copy the PNG files to it - but rename them according to the left column of Iconlist.txt. For example, the path within the toolkit to the icon for Account entities (if that were a custom icon) would be:

toolkit/configuration/fragments/common/icons/Account.png

You also need to copy custom icon files to every client workstation, in the following location:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\i2\i2 Shared\Custom Images\Screen\Icons

Finally, after making all of the above changes, redeploy and restart the Liberty server:

setup -t deployLiberty
setup -t startLiberty

Note: Even after you follow the above steps, the custom icons will not appear in i2 Analyze Schema Designer. However, the names of the custom icons will be present.