Icon Element

Icon is a gh-element that allows to add icon in any part of the application. You can use it as you see fit. It has the simplest settings.

Functional Characteristics

The icon element is usually used in the settings of elements such as filter tabs and view tab, paired with color. But it can also be used to customize elements in your application.

Value Format

This element takes the name of the icon as the value.

{
    "field_value": "box"
}

There are lots of different icons available for using in this element.

Element Options

All icon options are limited to field settings. In turn, icon field settings has only standard options like Field Name and Name Space:

Element Style

The icon element has one of the simplest list of interpretation types and a standard set of style settings with a single difference.

General Settings

Unlike previous group of settings, element style has one additional option.

Image Type

This option is a special option that is used mostly in development. It allows to change the format of icon. There are two types of format:

• SVG
• Canvas

Image type is useful when the icon element is used in other platforms. Then you can select the needed format. Also, canvas is useful for documents which will be converts in PDF format.

Data Model

The icon have no extra properties in data model besides interpretation array.

{
    "data_model": {
        "interpretation": []
    }
}

Filtration

This element cannot be filtered out.

Interpretation

The icon element has the two interpretation types.

Default

The first type is default. It is the selected blue icon in 40x40 px size.

Value

The second interpretation type displays the value of the current field.