Icons are small, simple images traditionally used for showing trends or variations of some variable.

The general idea of icons is that they can be included directly where they are needed, in the context of a graphical table or in a text area, to provide information at a glance. In the example below, icons are used in a graphical table to show the bottom, top, and intermediate sales region of some fictive product:

You can add rules that control the color of an icon to make sure that a value stands out when it falls outside of the specified limits. For example, in a graphical table, you can define one rule to give the top five items in your data a particular icon and/or color and another rule to provide a different icon/color for all other rows. See Adding or editing a rule for more information.

Icons can be configured to be limited by markings, filtering or expressions like any traditional visualization, or they can be locked to show fixed values using the settings in the Data properties for the Icon. You can control the size of the icon within the current boundaries.

If icons are used within a graphical table, then the max size is limited by the row height of the graphical table. If an icon is added to a text area, the max size is limited by the size of the gray edit box. In a graphical table, you can align the icon header and the icons to the Left, Right, or Center of the graphical table column.