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baipallin0350
baipallin0350
October 23, 2024
Question

Rotate an rich text icon in Interface design

  • October 23, 2024
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Hello,

I am developing a small application in which employees of a company can book their desks/seats in the office.

I have started designing our office seating arrangement using an interface where I used rich text icon to display the desktop and chair.

As it's normal in any office that the seating can be facing towards any direction. To visualize it, I have to rotate the icon I'm using now.

I googled it out but it's of vain. Appreciate your suggestions.

Regards

Nehemiah

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7 replies

stewart.burchell
stewart.burchell
October 23, 2024

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.

    baipallin0350
    baipallin0350Author
    October 24, 2024

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

    somasundaram.d
    somasundaram.d
    October 23, 2024

    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

      baipallin0350
      baipallin0350Author
      October 24, 2024

      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.

      mikes0011
      mikes0011
      Brainy
      October 23, 2024

      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.

        baipallin0350
        baipallin0350Author
        October 24, 2024

        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.

        mikes0011
        mikes0011
        Brainy
        October 24, 2024

        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.

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