Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:37:09 GMT

There are two "semi-official" ways, neither of which is very strong.

To get it into the public eye, you can create a separate post here on community with a subject starting "Feature Request:" and then a very concise description of the enhancement desired, and in the body of the post, reiterate your use case and desired in-depth functionality (etc). Here other users can "vote" on them (sorta) and comment in agreement or with followup questions, suggestions, workarounds, and (sadly) the inevitable completely off-topic reply here and there. But that's part of the game.

To make it "officially" logged with Appian, they have told me you can open a Support Case with Appian directly with the feature request especially if you can speak to your current "business impact", i.e. how it is actively hurting you to *not* have the feature. I've done this before and included the URL for the communtiy post I had previously written, since it's easier to include formatting and screenshots (etc) in posts here. This is the closest we get, sadly, to an "official enhancement request tracker" of any sort, despite that there are some of us who've been begging them for such a thing for years now.

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

baipallin0350 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:28:34 GMT

Yes Mike, this functionality of rotating an icon can be taken into consideration for echancement.

It would be great if you could let me know where can we raise such tickets.

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

baipallin0350 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:25:55 GMT

Hey Soma, Appreciate your suggestion.

1. I have gone through all the icons but I found no icon in all four orientation.
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.3/sail/ux-styled-icons.html

2. Okay, got it. Will try to use images instead of icons and check whether it's working or not.

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

baipallin0350 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:23:07 GMT

Got it Stewart. I appreciate your idea/suggestion. Will try it. Thank you.

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:23:23 GMT

If you can wait a few years, you could raise a ticket with Appian with this as an enhancement request - perhaps with "rotate" and "flip" abilities built in to the richTextIIcon component (the possibilities are various). It seems like it might be easyish for them to implement, though that doesn't mean it would be done soon at all.

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

Soma — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:13:25 GMT

It is not possible to rotate the icon in Appian. But I see 2 alternatives here,

1. You can choose some other meaningful icon that has all the four orientation

2. You can use image field instead of icons

RE: Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

Stewart Burchell — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:26:12 GMT

I don't believe there is a "rotate" option on the icon document in Appian. But you could create your own set of icons outside of Appian and save them (name them something like "chair-0", "chair-90", "chair-180", "char-270" to help identify what orientation your icon is) and use them as applicable in your app.