Recently I’ve developed a rather large website for a customer. To make the structure as simple as possible to understand I like to use different Icons for each document type. I was very happy with the FamFamFam Icons project from The Farm. After Installing this I got another challenge and that was to pick the right Icon.
Today I started working on a new project, installed the FamFamFam Icons package again and thought that it would be better to assign document types to the Image instead of assigning the image to a document type. I’ve created a small Usercontrol that lists all the icons (except for the default Umbraco sprites). Next to the Icon you find a dropdown with the possible documenttypes which you can select.
I did not create a package out of this. It’s working for me, but it needs some improvements before I can add it to our.umbraco.org. Maybe that will never happen, so attached you find a zip file. Add the IconPickerDashboard.dll file to your bin folder, the IconPickerDashboard.ascx to your usercontrol folder.
Add the following section to your the Dashboard.config file.
<section>
<areas>
<area>settings</area>
</areas>
<tab caption="IconPicker">
<control>/usercontrols/IconPickerDashboard.ascx</control>
</tab>
</section>
Now browse to the settings section and select the icons you like.
Download the zip (Requires .net 3.5).
Or download the source: