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Status Future consideration
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 16, 2026

More concistent usage of icons defined for artifact types

The icons defined in the data model for the artifact types are rarely used and are espacially missing in situation/views where there is not enough space to show the artfict type by name.

For example, when creating a link in the dropdown menus when you select a module it would be super helpful to see the icon of the module type. Otherwise you have to always write the type of the module in the module name to be able to identify what type of module it is in such dropdown menus.

Similiarly could it be helpful to have a column in views that is just showing the icons of the artifact type instead of the whole artifact type name.

In general more usage of the icons of artifact types would greatly improve the user experience.

Idea priority High
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool