--- title: "Breaking: The study plan icons are renamed and the controls are frontend icons" manual: "Academic StudyPlan" version: "main" permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-study-plan:breaking-study-plan-control-icons-moved-to-the-frontend-icon-registry@main" source: "Changelog/3.0/Breaking-StudyPlanControlIconsMovedToTheFrontendIconRegistry.rst" rendered: "2026-10-17T08:48:10+00:00" --- # Breaking: The study plan icons are renamed and the controls are frontend icons {#breaking-study-plan-control-icons-moved-to-the-frontend-icon-registry} ## Description {#description} In 2.4 the study plan registered seven icons 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: the icon of the content element, the record icons of categories, semesters and modules, and the three control icons of the frontend, the plus and the minus glyph of a semester header and the close glyph of a module dialog. Version 2.3 registered only the first four and asked for control icons nobody registered. The template rendered the controls with `core:icon`. The academic extensions now draw every icon from one set, Font Awesome Free (solid), drawn in `currentColor` so each icon takes the colour of the surrounding text, in both backend colour schemes and in the frontend (ACE-593). The identifiers follow the scheme `tx---`, and the group decides the registry: - The content element icon and the three record icons are shown by the backend only. They stay 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) under new identifiers. The content element icon was a placeholder drawing in fixed colours, and now follows the colour scheme like the record icons. - The three controls are shown by the frontend only. They are no longer registered by this extension: the partials `Frontend/Default/Partials/StudyPlan/Semester.html` and `Frontend/Default/Partials/StudyPlan/ModuleDialog.html` render the shared action icons of **academic_base** from its frontend icon registry, with the `ab:icon` ViewHelper of **academic_base** and the arguments they had (ACE-813). The previous identifiers are removed without an alias: | 2.x identifier | 3.0 identifier | Registry | | --- | --- | --- | | `academic-study-plan` | `tx-academicstudyplan-plugin-study-plan` | `Configuration/Icons.php` | | `academic-study-plan-category` | `tx-academicstudyplan-record-category` | `Configuration/Icons.php` | | `academic-study-plan-semester` | `tx-academicstudyplan-record-semester` | `Configuration/Icons.php` | | `academic-study-plan-module` | `tx-academicstudyplan-record-module` | `Configuration/Icons.php` | | `academic-study-plan-plus` | `tx-academicbase-action-expand` | `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of **academic_base** | | `academic-study-plan-minus` | `tx-academicbase-action-collapse` | `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of **academic_base** | | `academic-study-plan-close` | `tx-academicbase-action-close` | `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of **academic_base** | The files `content-element.svg`, `category.svg`, `semester.svg`, `module.svg`, `plus.svg`, `minus.svg` and `close.svg` in `Resources/Public/Icons/` are removed. The new files live in `Resources/Public/Icons/plugin/` and `Resources/Public/Icons/record/`. [`Resources/Public/Icons/Extension.svg`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Resources/Public/Index.html#file-extension-resources-public-icons-extension-svg) stays, as the extension icon only. The origin and licence of the Font Awesome files (CC BY 4.0) are listed in `Resources/Public/Icons/LICENSE-font-awesome.txt`. The controls are still inlined SVG. The files of 2.x carry a `viewBox` but no `width` and `height`, and an inline SVG without a size collapses to 0 pixels inside the flex header of a semester and inside the close button of a dialog. Only the stylesheet 2.4 shipped made them visible, see [Important: The study plan controls are visible](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-study-plan:important-study-plan-controls-are-visible@main). The new files carry `width="1em" height="1em"` and keep that size without a stylesheet, which this version no longer ships, see [Breaking: The study plan ships no stylesheet](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-study-plan:breaking-study-plan-ships-no-stylesheet@main). ## Impact {#impact} - An icon requested with one of the previous identifiers renders a not-found placeholder: in TCA, page TSconfig and through `IconFactory::getIcon()` the one of TYPO3, with `ab:icon` the one of **academic_base**. A site package that registers one of the previous identifiers 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) or `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` no longer changes anything. - An override of `Semester.html` or `ModuleDialog.html` that renders a control with `core:icon` shows TYPO3's not-found icon, because the icon registry of the backend does not know the identifiers of the frontend icon registry. - The class the icon markup derives from the identifier changes with it. The stylesheet example of [Style the element](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-study-plan:styling@main) switches the glyphs of a semester header through `icon-tx-academicbase-action-expand` and `icon-tx-academicbase-action-collapse`, and hides `.icon` in the header on a wide viewport. A site stylesheet or an override that still uses `icon-academic-study-plan-plus` or `icon-academic-study-plan-minus` shows both glyphs, or neither. - A replacement of a control is no longer limited to the study plan. Its identifier belongs to **academic_base**, so a site package that replaces it changes the glyph in every academic extension that renders it. ## Affected Installations {#affected-installations} Every installation whose site package replaces one of the icons, names one of the previous identifiers in TCA or page TSconfig, overrides one of the two partials, or styles the generated `icon-*` classes. Installations that use the extension as shipped need no change. ## Migration {#migration} 1. Replace the previous identifiers with the 3.0 identifiers from the table above, in TCA overrides, page TSconfig and overridden templates. 1. To draw the content element or a record icon differently, register its 3.0 identifier in the [`Configuration/Icons.php`](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ExtensionArchitecture/FileStructure/Configuration/Icons.html#file-extension-configuration-icons-php) of the site package. 1. To draw a control differently, register its 3.0 identifier in the `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of the site package, not 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). The file has the format of `Icons.php`. The site package has to depend on **academic_base**, which registers the control icons, so its entry is read after the shipped one: **EXT:mysitepackage/Configuration/FrontendIcons.php** ```php [ 'provider' => SvgIconProvider::class, 'source' => 'EXT:mysitepackage/Resources/Public/Icons/close.svg', ], ]; ``` 1. In an override of `Semester.html` or `ModuleDialog.html`, render the controls with `` tag of the partial: `xmlns:ab="http://typo3.org/ns/FGTCLB/AcademicBase/ViewHelpers"`. An override of `Semester.html` keeps rendering `tx-academicbase-action-expand` and `tx-academicbase-action-collapse` when the site stylesheet selects their classes, as the example of the manual does, see [The glyphs of a semester header](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-study-plan:templates-glyphs@main). 1. Replace `.icon-<2.x identifier>` selectors with `.icon-<3.0 identifier>`. 1. Flush the TYPO3 caches, so the icon registries and the Fluid template cache are rebuilt.