Icon for the Administration and Help menu

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#1

I want to assign some icons to the Administration and Help menu, but these are not left editable, is there any way? Or should you overwrite these options?

#2

Hi Nelson,

There are two ways to set icons to Administrative and Help menu items:

  1. Create your own web-menu.xml config, adjust icons there and specify it without “+” in the cuba.menuConfig property (web-app.properties):

cuba.menuConfig = com/iis/izzy/web-menu.xml
  1. Or you can add icons programmatically in the controller of extended mainWindow:

public class ExtAppMainWindow extends AbstractMainWindow {
    @Inject
    private FtsField ftsField;

    @Inject
private SideMenu sideMenu;

    @Override
    public void init(Map<String, Object> params) {
        super.init(params);
        initFtsField(ftsField);
        sideMenu.getMenuItem("administration").setIcon("branding/app-icon-login.png");
        sideMenu.getMenuItem("help").setIcon("branding/app-icon-menu.png");
    }
}
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#3

In this example, what is the path to use to get Font Awesome icons available? I would prefer not to have to redeclare the administration and help menus in the web-menu.xml file. I only want to assign a FA icon to them in the controller file of the extended Main Screen.

I’ve tried:

public class ExtMainScreen extends MainScreen {
    @Inject
    private SideMenu sideMenu;

    @Subscribe
    public void onInit(InitEvent event) {
        sideMenu.getMenuItem("administration").setIcon("font-awesome5-solid-icon:USER");
    }
}

However, this only produces this as a result:
image

Thanks in advance for any help!

Adam

#4

Try this:

import com.haulmont.cuba.gui.icons.CubaIcon;

xxx.setIcon(CubaIcon.USER.source());

It’s mentioned in the documentation: Icon Sets - CUBA Platform. Developer’s Manual

#5

Perfect, Alexander. Thank you for the direction!

Adam