For Plone 2.1

• Create the following "Script (Python)" objects in "plone_skins/custom"

getIconStyleBlob

try:

  name="customIcon_"+item['path'].replace("/","")
  icon=context.restrictedTraverse(item['path']).customIcon

  return """

    ."""+name+""" a { 
      background-image: url(http://www.adaptix.co.za/adaptix/"""+icon+"""); 
      background-repeat: no-repeat; 
      background-position: 0% 3px;
    }
  """

except:
  return ""

getIconStyleName

style="contenttype-"+context.plone_utils.normalizeString(item['portal_type'])

try:
  if (hasattr(context.restrictedTraverse(item['path']),'customIcon')):
    style="customIcon_"+item['path'].replace("/","")

except:
  None

return style

***************
*** 6,14 ****

      <tal:level define="level               options/level|python:0;
!                        item_type_class     python: 'contenttype-' + here.plone_utils.normalizeString(item['portal_type']);
                         item_wf_state_class python: 'state-' + here.plone_utils.normalizeString(item['review_state']);
                         isNaviTree          options/isNaviTree | nothing;
                         ">

      <div tal:attributes="class item_type_class">
          <a tal:condition="item/currentItem"
--- 6,18 ----

      <tal:level define="level               options/level|python:0;
!                        item_type_class     python: here.getIconStyleName(item);
                         item_wf_state_class python: 'state-' + here.plone_utils.normalizeString(item['review_state']);
                         isNaviTree          options/isNaviTree | nothing;
                         ">

+
+
+     <style type="text/css" tal:content="python: here.getIconStyleBlob(item)"/>
+
      <div tal:attributes="class item_type_class">
          <a tal:condition="item/currentItem"

Add "customIcon" string properties to each of the items for which you want custom icons. For example, set "customIcon" on the document "client" to be "user.gif" (). See "portal_skins/plone_images" for built-in icons, or add your own to "portal_skins/custom"

For Plone 2.0

• Customize "portal_skins/custom/portlet_navigation" as below:

<                                  tal:attributes="src string:${here/portal_url}/${sibling/getIcon};
---
>                                  tal:attributes="src string:${here/portal_url}/${sibling/getCustomIcon};

if (hasattr(context.aq_explicit,'customIcon')):
  return context.customIcon
else:
  return context.getIcon()

Add "customIcon" string properties to each of the folders for which you want custom icons. For example, set "customIcon" on the folder "clients" to be "user.gif" (). See "portal_skins/plone_images" for built-in icons, or add your own to "portal_skins/custom"

Please contact me at graeme@raspberry.co.za if you have additional comments or suggestions. For support, please use the Plone forums.