Icons Sets

Background

Icons can be assigned to Entities in the Ontology Configuration.

These icons are shown when viewing Networks.

Icon Sets configurations are simply collections of icons.

You can modify the Sintelix default icon set or create your own icon set.

How it works

When you assign an icon to an ontology class, the Icon Picker lists all of the icons in all of the Icon Sets configurations. The Default Icon Set is always listed first. All other Icon Sets are listed in alphabetical order (as shown below).

While you can add to the Default Icon Set, it may be useful to have a separate Icon Set for your preferred icons to make them easy to find. This also makes it easy to copy them between projects.

Quick Summary

Within an Icon Set, you can:

  • Upload icons to add icons to an Icon set by selecting Upload Images

  • Delete an icon from an icon set by selecting the delete icon visible when you hover over an icon

  • Rename an icon in an icon set, by double clicking on an icon.

You can also create, copy, rename, import, export and delete an Icon Set Configuration. See Manage Configurations.

Access

To access the Icon Sets Configuration:

  1. select Configurations > Icon Sets

  2. select the Icon Set Configuration to modify (or create a new Icon Set or copy an existing Icon Set).

  3. make the required changes.

Upload icons
Format

Sintelix supports any image type but vector formats (such as SVG Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML-based vector image format.) and formats that support transparency (such as PNG Portable Network Graphic, an image format capable of providing transparent backgrounds. and BMP Bitmap Image File, a raster image format.) work best.

To upload icons:
  1. Select Upload Images.
  2. Select the images you want to upload.
  3. Select Open.

    4. Result: The icons are uploaded.

  4. When a user zooms in on a network graph the icons on the graph are enlarged. To simulate this and check the scalability of the icons, change the thumbnail size by dragging the slider at the top right of the pane.

    5. Vector icons can be scaled up and down without compromising the quality of the image.

Rename an icon

When an icon is uploaded, the file name is used as its label. You can change this label at any time.

Renaming an icon does not affect any ontology classes to which the icon has been assigned.

To rename an icon:

  1. Double click on the icon.

    Result: A Editing Label dialog is displayed.

  2. Enter the new name.
  3. Click Save.
Delete an icon

You can delete icons from icon sets. If you delete an icon that has been assigned to an ontology class, an error icon is shown instead.

To delete an icon:

  1. Hover over the icon you want to delete then click the Delete Icon .

    Result: A message is displayed asking to confirm the deletion.

  2. Click OK to confirm.

    Result: The icon is deleted.