Changing the icon used for an entity

Icons are used in records and whenever you chart items. You can change the icons that are used to represent entities of a particular type.

About this task

You can change the icon and icon shading color for an individual entity, all the entities in a set, or all the entities that are found by a query.

Note: When you apply an icon with a semantic type to an entity, you can affect the results of queries that use semantic types.

To assign a different icon or shading color:

Select Edit > Assign Icons and select the entity type from the Entity Type list. The standard icon for the type is selected automatically in the list.
In the Icons list, select the icon that you want to assign to the entity or entities.

The icons that are included in this list depend on the selected entity type. If this entity type has an Icon type field, then the list is filtered so that you can choose icons from the list that is assigned to this field. If the entity type does not have an Icon type field, then you can choose from the whole set of icons.

You can, apply a shading color to the icon.

Option	Description
Ignore	When you are changing the icon for more than one record, select this option to keep the existing icon shading setting for each record. The shading that is set for each record is applied to the new icon.
Apply	Use a color that you select. Click Browse and select a color from the Color Picker, or click Custom to define your own color. If you select a different icon to assign to one or more records, it also uses the selected color. By default, the color picker shows the 40 standard colors that are used in Analyst's Notebook. (To see the name of a color in the picker, move the pointer over it.) Selecting one of these colors enables searching for the textual value of the color (as an analysis attribute) in Analyst's Notebook. Choosing a custom color results in only the RGB values being used for the analysis attribute.
Restore to Default	Any icon assigned to the specified records uses the standard icon color.

Specify which entity or entities use the selected icon by selecting one of the following options:

Option	Description
Assign to this record	The icon is assigned to the record that you select. Note: You can also drag a record onto the Assign to this Record.
Assign to records in this query	The icon is assigned to records of the entity type that are in the results of a query, which you select. You can only select from queries that output records of the specified type.
Assign to records in this set	The icon is assigned to records of the entity type that are contained in a set, which you select. You can only select from sets that contain records of the specified type.