AWI: Restrict the favorite icon

[Michael A. Lowry]

It is possible to specify the logo that appears in the AWI login window and in the upper left corner of the AWI interface, using the logo.filename property in colors.properties. Additionally, if session.colors have been defined in this file, and if the user selects a specific session color, the favorite icon will be changed to a generic AWI spriograph icon based on the chosen color.

However, we would like to restrict the favorite icon of each AWI system to a specific icon. The reason is so that we can associate a particular icon with a particular AWI/UC4 environment.

Icon	System	Description
	UC4_EXP2	Experimental 2
	UC4_EXP	Experimental
	UC4_DEV	Development
	UC4_ITE	Testing
	UC4_PROD	Production

Users work with multiple AWI systems, and it is vitally important that they be able to quickly identify and distinguish the browser tabs of the different systems, particularly when they have many tabs open.

I found a somewhat kludgy way to replace the default favorite icon, and documented this approach in the discussion thread Web Interface customization.

Is there a better way? Ideally, I would like to be able to configure the favorite icon via ordinary AWI configuration settings, and to be able to specify it at AWI run time.

My related idea Automic Web Interface customization has been marked Delivered, but the ability to set the favorite icon (and HTML title) are MIA.

[Michael A. Lowry]

One more thing: It's nice to have the option of having the favorite icon dynamically updated automatically based on the chosen session color. However, I am not convinced all AWI administrators want it to work like this. It would nice if this feature were optional. And not to put too fine a point on it, but, we want to determine the favorite icon and the session color independently (and of course, to be able to hard-code them both at AWI run time).

Ping @David Ainsworth

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