How to Add Icons to Document Types in SharePoint
In this post i am going to explain, how you can add icon to unkown document types. If you add a unkown document type to SharePoint library, a netural document icon appears.
The above shown example is for PDF type document. In this example i am explaining about how to add pdf document icon but these steps are same for any document type.
1. Download pdf 16x16 icon
2. Store icon to following path of 14 hive folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES
3. Open the file DOCICON.XML located in the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML.
Add following line of code into section ByExtension tag
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf16.gif" />
4. Restart IIS with command iireset
Now you when you reload document library or add new pdf file you can see pdf icon associated to type column.
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Unkown Document Type
2. Store icon to following path of 14 hive folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES
3. Open the file DOCICON.XML located in the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML.
Add following line of code into section ByExtension tag
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf16.gif" />
4. Restart IIS with command iireset
Now you when you reload document library or add new pdf file you can see pdf icon associated to type column.
I hope you liked this post, please don't forget to post your comment thanks
