This documentation supports the 21.3 version of BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced.To view an earlier version, select the version from the Product version menu.

Configuring icons


Important

Starting with the 21.3.02 patch, BMC announces changes related to the availability of BMC Service Request Management that might affect your use of BMC Helix Digital Workplace.

For more information, see Deprecated-and-discontinued-features.

A different icon can be displayed for each item and category in the Catalog. You can use custom icons from the following integrated applications:

  • BMC Service Request Management
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog

In addition, you can use icons installed with 

BMC Helix Digital Workplace

 or you can upload custom icons. If icons are not provided from the integrated applications and you do not specify the icon, a default icon from 

BMC Helix Digital Workplace

 is used.


Related topics

Configuring service request imagesin the BMC Service Request Management documentation

Adding-and-updating-services in BMC Digital Workplace Catalog

Before you begin

  • Set up the catalog, as described in 05.

To upload custom icons in BMC Helix Digital Workplace

If your custom icons do not come from integrated applications, you can upload the icons to BMC Helix Digital Workplace. In addition, you can override icons from integrated applications with custom icons.

  1. Prepare your custom icons.
    Image files for custom icons have the following restrictions:

    File size

    Less than 500 KB

    Format

    jpeg, png, or gif

    Dimensions

    Optimal dimensions are 300 x 300 pixels. There are no restrictions on dimensions; if you are not satisfied with the appearance in BMC Helix Digital Workplace, you might use a graphics program to crop or resize the image to the optimal dimensions.

  2. In the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Admin console, go to Service Requests > Category and Requests Properties.
  3. From the SRD Categories list, select an SRD category.
  4. From the Available Requests list, select a specific SRD.
    If you do not select a request, the icon applies to all SRDs in the category.
  5. Click Choose File, and browse for a file with an icon. 
  6. Click Upload new image to add the custom icon to the icon library.
  7. Click Change to modify the default icon used for the selected category or request, and click OK.
  8. Save your changes.

To use custom icons from BMC Service Request Management

If you set images for SRDs or for SRD categories, you can display them in BMC Helix Digital Workplace instead of the generic icons by performing the following steps:

  1. From the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Admin console, select Configuration.
  2. On the Providers table on the Application Features page, select the SRM pluggable provider row.
  3. Scroll down to see the SRM pluggable provider Settings fields.
  4. Select the useExternalIcon check box.
  5. Click the Reload providers button Reload_providers.png in the top-right corner of the Providers table.

Where to go from here

Setting-up-satisfaction-surveys-for-HR-and-IT-requests

 

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