--- title: "Breaking: The job icons are renamed and moved to the frontend icons" manual: "Academic Jobs" version: "main" permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-jobs:breaking-jobs-job-icons-moved-to-the-frontend-icon-registry@main" source: "Changelog/3.0/Breaking-JobIconsMovedToTheFrontendIconRegistry.rst" rendered: "2026-10-12T10:12:12+00:00" --- # Breaking: The job icons are renamed and moved to the frontend icons {#breaking-jobs-job-icons-moved-to-the-frontend-icon-registry} ## Description {#description} Every icon of this extension has a new identifier and a new drawing (ACE-813, ACE-587). The seventeen icons of the job properties are shown in the frontend only: - Twelve stand in front of the job properties of the job list and the job detail view. - Two stand in front of the phone number and the e-mail address of the contact block. - Three are rendered by no template the extension ships: the start time, the contact name and the additional contact information. They stay registered, so an override that adds one of these properties to the list it shows gets its icon without registering one. They were registered in [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php), for the icon registry of the TYPO3 backend, and the partials rendered them with `core:icon`. They are now registered in `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php`, for the frontend icon registry of **academic_base**, and are no longer registered in [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php). The partials `Partials/Job/Item.html`, `Partials/Job/Information.html` and `Partials/Job/Contact.html` render them with the `ab:icon` ViewHelper of **academic_base**. Every job property keeps an identifier of its own, so a site still replaces the icon of one property without touching the others. The identifiers follow the scheme of all academic extensions, `tx---`: a property icon is `tx-academicjobs-info-` and the property name in kebab case. The partials no longer build the identifier from the property name, they map each property they show to its identifier in the list they loop over. The drawings are the shared Font Awesome Free glyphs of **academic_base**, several properties share one. They were fifteen files of this extension in three different inks, grey Material Symbols, black Font Awesome drawings and the red plugin drawing for the job type, rendered as an image of 16 by 16 pixels that kept the colour of its file. The glyphs are inlined now and drawn in `currentColor`: they take the colour of the surrounding text and are as large as its font. The content elements and the job record get their own identifiers in [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php). Both draw the Font Awesome Free briefcase of the shared set of **academic_base**, `info/employment.svg`, in `currentColor`, so the content element icon follows the backend colour scheme like the record icon does. The old identifiers are removed without an alias: | 2.x identifier | 3.0 identifier | Registry | | --- | --- | --- | | `academic_jobs_icon` | `tx-academicjobs-plugin-jobs` | `Icons.php` | | none, the table named its file | `tx-academicjobs-record-job` | `Icons.php` | | `academic_jobs-starttime` | `tx-academicjobs-info-starttime` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-endtime` | `tx-academicjobs-info-endtime` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-employmentStartDate` | `tx-academicjobs-info-employment-start-date` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-companyName` | `tx-academicjobs-info-company-name` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-employmentType` | `tx-academicjobs-info-employment-type` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-workLocation` | `tx-academicjobs-info-work-location` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-sector` | `tx-academicjobs-info-sector` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-type` | `tx-academicjobs-info-type` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-requiredDegree` | `tx-academicjobs-info-required-degree` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-contractualRelationship` | `tx-academicjobs-info-contractual-relationship` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-internationalsWelcome` | `tx-academicjobs-info-internationals-welcome` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-alumniRecommend` | `tx-academicjobs-info-alumni-recommend` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-link` | `tx-academicjobs-info-link` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-contactName` | `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-name` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-contactEmail` | `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-email` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-contactPhone` | `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-phone` | `FrontendIcons.php` | | `academic_jobs-contactAdditionalInformation` | `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-additional-information` | `FrontendIcons.php` | The contact block of 2.x rendered the identifiers `phone` and `mail` instead of its two registered icons, and nothing registers those, see [Important: The job contact block shows its own icons](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-jobs:important-job-contact-block-shows-its-own-icons@main). The files below `Resources/Public/Icons/` are removed with them: `Calendar.svg`, `Company.svg`, `Contract.svg`, `Email.svg`, `Industry.svg`, `Info.svg`, `Link.svg`, `Location.svg`, `Person.svg`, `Phone.svg`, `Public.svg`, `School.svg`, `Star.svg`, `Work.svg`, `jobs_icon.svg`, the former job record icon `tx_academicjobs_domain_model_job.svg`, and `tx_academicjobs_domain_model_contact.svg`, which nothing referenced any more. The extension ships no icon file of its own apart from `Extension.svg`, which is unchanged. The origin and licence of the shared files are listed in `Resources/Public/Icons/LICENSE-font-awesome.txt` of **academic_base**. ## Impact {#impact} None of the following shows an error: - A template, TCA or page TSconfig of a site package that names one of the old identifiers shows the "icon not found" placeholder. - A site package that replaced one of the property icons in its own [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php), or under its old identifier, sees the shipped drawing in the job list and the job detail view. The frontend icon registry does not read that file, and nothing renders the old identifier. - An override of one of the three partials that still renders a property icon with `core:icon`, or builds the old identifier, shows the "icon not found" placeholder in its place. - A reference to one of the removed files fails. PHP or backend code that asks the `IconFactory` of TYPO3 for one of the seventeen property icons gets the "icon not found" placeholder as well. The markup of the property icons changes from an image to an inlined drawing: ```html before: after: ``` A stylesheet that selects the icon wrapper by an old identifier class (`.icon-academic_jobs-*`) or the icon as an `` matches nothing. ## Affected Installations {#affected-installations} Every installation whose site package replaces one of the job icons, styles them, overrides one of the three partials, or names one of the old identifiers or files in a template, TCA, page TSconfig or PHP code of its own. ## Migration {#migration} 1. Replace each old identifier by its 3.0 identifier from the table above. Register a replacement of a property icon in the `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of the site package, the backend icons in its [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php). Both files have the same format. The site package has to depend on **academic_jobs**, so its entry is read after the shipped one: **EXT:mysitepackage/Configuration/FrontendIcons.php** ```php [ 'provider' => SvgIconProvider::class, 'source' => 'EXT:mysitepackage/Resources/Public/Icons/Phone.svg', ], 'tx-academicjobs-info-company-name' => [ 'provider' => SvgIconProvider::class, 'source' => 'EXT:mysitepackage/Resources/Public/Icons/Company.svg', ], ]; ``` `SvgIconProvider` renders the file as an image of 16 by 16 pixels, as before. `\FGTCLB\AcademicBase\Imaging\IconProvider\CurrentColorSvgIconProvider` inlines a file drawn in `currentColor`, like the shipped icons. 1. In an override of `Item.html` or `Information.html`, take over the property list of the shipped partial, which maps every property to the name of its icon, and render ``. In an override of `Contact.html`, render `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-phone` and `tx-academicjobs-info-contact-email`. Render the icons with `ab:icon` instead of `core:icon`, keep every argument, and declare the namespace in the `` tag of the partial: `xmlns:ab="http://typo3.org/ns/FGTCLB/AcademicBase/ViewHelpers"`. 1. Adapt a stylesheet to the `.icon-tx-academicjobs-info-*` classes and to an inlined `` instead of an ``. 1. Flush the TYPO3 caches, so the icon registries and the Fluid template cache are rebuilt.