Create a field with a key and two values

[Alex]

Dear Community:

I hope everyone is having a great time! 

I am facing a new challenge.  I have key/value fields that work outstandingly.  However, I now need to associate or an icon (html) to the key so when I display the key I can pull its icon. The icon will be just a html code or href reference that displays the key.

Something like this in the front end.

Icon Key:  value

Is there a field that I can use for this?  I really do not want to migrate all my key/value fields to a new field type, but if I have to, I will.

I welcome any suggestions any of you can bring to assess this issue.

Thanks,

Alex

[Nathan Keiter]

I haven't really used key/value fields much, but would any of these be possible for you?

• Make the value map to the name of the icon. Ie. value=party, where icon is party.gif
• Make the value be a comma separated list, where value is in the first position, icon in the second position. Ie. value=party,party-hat

Nathan I. Keiter | Network Applications Programmer
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[Jameson Mauro]

In the same spirit as Nathan's suggestions, if you're comfortable with bloating your key list, you could do something like KEY=value, and then add a separate entry for KEY_icon=graphic.png

Though that seems less efficient overall than the idea of mapping icon names to values (or keys, if the icons need to be enforced as unique).

[Lex Medeiros]

Thank you for the great idea!  I will give it a try.  But I think it may be cumbersome for the content editor since every time the key or values need to be updated, he or she has to put HTML on it and I would have to explain everything over and over again to every new content editor.

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