{"id":472,"date":"2009-03-26T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2009\/03\/26\/a-fix-for-all-document-icons-missing-in-a-sharepoint-document-library\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:31:00","slug":"a-fix-for-all-document-icons-missing-in-a-sharepoint-document-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2009\/03\/26\/a-fix-for-all-document-icons-missing-in-a-sharepoint-document-library\/","title":{"rendered":"A fix for all document icons missing in a SharePoint Document Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClassE1E4B0DB9D7942959D8A094FCE550CE5\">\n<div>Well, here&#8217;s my problem.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had a document library (in fact all, in my SharePoint farm), that showed all documents in tact, but the various icons for Word, Excel, PDF, etc. were all missing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The issue started with PDF.\u00a0 I followed my own instructions even but made a typo (here&#8217;s where I document how to integrate PDF Support in SharePoint &#8211; MOSS and WSS) &#8211; bad Sean bad&#8230; \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <a>\/archive\/2008\/12\/10\/installing-pdf-support-in-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007-icon-and-search-1.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This issue can occur under two circumstances usually\u00a0(in this case, it was a badly formed docicon.xml file but sometimes it could also be mismanaged permissions (or changed permissions) on that file.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When I had added the string below<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 8pt;margin: 20px 0px 10px;overflow: auto;width: 97.5%;cursor: text;line-height: 12pt;font-family: consolas, 'Courier New', courier, monospace;height: 39px;background-color: #f4f4f4;border: gray 1px solid;padding: 4px\">\u00a0&lt;Mapping Key=&#8221;pdf&#8221; Value=&#8221;<var>NameofIconFile<\/var>.gif&#8221;\/&gt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had left off the closing &#8220;\/&#8221;.\u00a0 That was enough to render the whole file unsuable and resulted in my lousy Document Library icon display. Hopefully this helps someone in the future.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s my problem. I had a document library (in fact all, in my SharePoint farm), that showed all documents in tact, but the various icons for Word, Excel, PDF, etc. were all missing. 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