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Custom action Icon missing in actions menu on object details page in Windchill

Modified: 12-Nov-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 13.0

Description

  • Unable to display the icon for a custom action in Actions menu of an object
  • Icon for custom action missing in Actions menu on object details page
  • Action report shows a warning: Note: This icon is not displayed in the row level actions menu
  • We can add a shortcut to an Action in the Toolbar by specifying "shortcut=true"  in the action definition in the *actionModels.xml file as shown in example below:
<model name="myModel" resourceBundle="ext.MyCustomResourceBundle">
        <action name="myAction1" type="myType"/>
        <action name="myAction2" type="myType"/>
        <action name="myAction3" type="myType"/>
        <action name="myAction4" type="myType" shortcut="true"/> <!-- custom icon is used for this action -->
        <action name="myAction5" type="myType"/>
        <action name="myAction6" type="myType"/>
</model>​
  • The icon which needs to be rendered is mentioned in the corresponding *-actions.xml file as shown in below example: [Please note there are other ways to specify the icon file as well. For details, please refer Windchill Customization Guide]
<objecttype name="myType">
		<action name="myAction4">				 
                <label>My Action 4</label>
                <title>My Action 4</title>
                <icon>netmarkets/images/doc.gif</icon>
                <tooltip>My Action 4</tooltip>  
		</action>
</objecttype>
  • A custom Action icon not visible on workflow task information page but it is shown properly on other place such as a table with toolbar
  • We are using same custom action on different action models but one place showing Icon and other place not showing the icon
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