* Where does FH store its diagram icon files?

[Peter Collier]

I have various expressions set up for my diagrams, and I have certain icons of my own that I want displayed when the conditions are met. I am trying to add the icon to the expression via diagram options > boxes > edit features.

It's been several years since I last did this, so I may be misremembering, but I thought in v6 I was able to browse for the icon file location. In v7 I have a plethora of new icons to choose from - national flags, shapes, DNA twizzles and the like - but no way that I can see to get to my own.

That's no biggie if I can just add my own icons into whichever folder FH uses to store its own default icons, so that my icons then appear for selection alongside all of the others. However, I can't find such a folder. Does anyone know where it is? Alternatively, am I barking up the wrong tree entirely and do I need to go about this a different way altogether?

I don't know if it will be relevant, but my icons are BMP files, about 95x95 pixels with a resolution of 300 dpi. The files are about 27 kB each in size.

[Kingy]

Off the top of my head

C: - Program Data - Calico Pie - Family Historian - Icons

You can set up sub folders within it to make it easier to find.

Paul

[tatewise]

Peter, in the Box Features dialogue, where you select the Icon, have you tried clicking Help?
Strangely, I think it answers all your questions!

The reason Icons must now be in the Icons folder is that when they are anywhere on the PC they were difficult to migrate to another PC and users typically discovered that all their Icons had vanished from Diagrams.
Now by copying the C:\ProgramData\CalicoPie\Family Historian folder to the other PC most customisations including Icons should migrate OK.