Change the icon of the External Item picker

Question

Hi,

Is it possible to change the two icons of the External Data field to my custom icons?

I want to change the icon of "Check if External Content Type exists" and "Select External Content Type" to other icons that I uploaded..

Answer 1

Sure.

You could change the icon in the 14- folder of the server. (http://mysharepointwork.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharepoint-14-hive-directory-structure.html)

There is a big list with all icons there, just replace the one you need and do a IISRESET.

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http://www.balestra.be || @marijnsomers

Answer 2

Thanks Marijin,

But the page is not existed anymore... do you have another sourse for change the picker icon?

Answer 3

Ok,

Do you know where your 14 hive map is?

That is the location where you have installed SharePoint.

Normally it is located here:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES

That is the place where all images in SharePoint are stored. Just find the right image (via right-click you normally get the name of the image), copy your new icons here and rename them to the same name.

An IISRESET later and you are good to go.

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http://www.balestra.be || @marijnsomers

Answer 4

Hi,

This is a pretty good overview Installation and other special directories (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

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Dmitry

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Answer 5

Thanks for both of your helps!! That helped a lot!!

Answer 6

Hi,

Is it possible to change the picker icon that only apply to a particular external data field? If i replace the icon in the 14 folder, it would apply to all picker icon over the whole web app... can i use coding in CEWP to change the icon??

Answer 7

yes you can!

You could do that with some jquery on the page itself and change the img source to another item.

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http://www.balestra.be || @marijnsomers