--- title: "Icons and format strings" description: "" url: "https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/7.11.0/visualization/active-console/view-customization/icons-and-format-strings/index.html" --- ## Overview This guide includes other supplemental information that you need to know about Active Console. ## Icons and colours Active Console uses icons and colour to convey information about the state of the system to the user in a simple and effective manner. The following icons are used throughout the application to represent the data items:

Data item	Example icons
Gateways
Netprobes
Managed Entities
Samplers
Dataviews
Managed Variables
Headlines

### Data item icons ### Colours and severity status The colour of icons that represent directory components changes depending on the component's severity, snooze status, and any rules which are currently active. The following colours are used throughout the application:

Colour	Severity status	Description
Grey		No rules are triggered on this component or its children, but a rule can still exist. The severity is Undefined.
Green		A rule is currently triggered that tells the system that the directory component and its children are OK. This colour overrides Grey.
Amber		A rule is triggered that tells the system that the directory component or one of its children is in a Warning state. This colour overrides Green.
Red		A rule is triggered that tells the system that the directory component or one of its children is in a Critical state. This colour overrides Amber.
Blue	This colour is only applicable to data items as mentioned in Data item icons.	A rule is triggered that sets the cell to inactive or outside active time.

**Note** On Windows, the Active Console icon does not reflect the worst case severity in taskbar if you create a desktop icon or shortcut for Active Console, or pin the Active Console application to the taskbar. This limitation occurs when the Windows setting in **Taskbar > Combine taskbar buttons** is set to **Always, hide labels**. As a workaround, you can set the **Combine taskbar buttons** setting to either **When taskbar is full** or **Never**. ### Error icons The data items shows the following error icons:

Meaning	Icon	Description
Disconnected		Data item where this is published from is disconnected.
Error		Item has a general error. More information is available through its Properties dialog.
Unreachable		Geneoscomponents (Gateway or Netprobe) on which the data item sits (or is published from) is unreachable. Usually, this means that the host on which the component runs is unreachable.
License Warning		Component's licence is expired.
Rejected		Connection to this item is rejected.
Suspended		Connection to this item is temporarily suspended.
Waiting		Waiting for a response from the data item.

### Visual indicators Icons are used in Active Console to represent both the function and the state of data items:

Meaning	Icon	Description
Snooze		Data item itself is snoozed.
No Samplers		Connected managed entity has no samplers.
Inactive		Data item is inactive.
Knowledge Base		Item has one or more knowledge base entries.
Inactive children		Item contains one or more children that are inactive.
Assigned User		Item is assigned to a user.
Snoozed Child		Data item has one or more descendants that are snoozed.
Snoozed Ancestor		Data item has one or more ancestors that are snoozed.
Snoozed ancestors and descendants		Data item has snoozed ancestors and descendants.
No Logging		Data item is logged to the database, but the Gateway is not connected to the database.
Geneos component error		One or more Geneos components (Gateway or Netprobe) under the data item have an error, which means it is not connected. Error icons related to disconnection, suspension, and licence expired.
Probe suspended		Probe is suspended.
Log to database		Data item is logging to database.
Load Monitoring		Identifies which Gateway feature is using the most processing time in the gathered statistical sample.
Gateway Hub		Indicates that the Gateway is utilising Gateway Hub. If your Gateway is configured to publish data to Gateway Hub, the icon is displayed on the Gateway level and the dataview level (only on the views that are published). If your Gateway is using centralised configuration, the icon is displayed at the Gateway level. For more information, see Gateway Hub.
ITRS Analytics		Indicates that the Gateway is utilising ITRS Analytics. If your Gateway is configured to publish data to ITRS Analytics, the icon is displayed on the Gateway level and the dataview level (only on the views that are published).
		Indicates that the metric tables are inactive. Therefore, the dataview stops showing any data items.

## Format strings This section shows you the text and format parameters for the date and number strings that can be used when configuring the Active Console. ### Date format strings Some data items and fields use formatted strings to specify dates. You can use these tokens:

Type	Token	Example
Short Year	yy	02
Long Year	yyyy	2002
Short Month	M	1
Month	MM	01
Short named month	MMM	Jan
Long named month	MMMM	January
Short Day	d	0
Day	dd	09
Short named day	E	Wed
Full named day	EEEE	Wednesday
Hour	HH
Minute	mm
Second	ss
Time zone	Z

Examples of token patterns and the display on the X-Axis, based on the 1 January 2002, at 12.34 and 23 seconds.

Pattern	Example
HH:mm:ss	12:34:23
EEEE HH.mm	Wednesday 12.34
MM yyyy	01 2002
HH:mm ss (MMMM yyyy)	12:34 23 (January 2002)

### Number format strings Some data items and fields allow you to format numbers. When you specify a pattern string, which takes the form used in the Java class DecimalFormat, these pattern strings give a huge amount of flexibility in the number format that can be produced, but are not immediately understandable if you are not familiar with the DecimalFormat class. You can use these number format strings:

Pattern	Unformatted Number	Formatted Number	Comments
000000	-1234.567	-001235	The 0 symbol shows a digit, or 0 if no digit is present; notice that the number was rounded up.
##	-1234.567	-1235	The `#` symbol shows a digit, or nothing if no digit is present.
##	0	0
##00	0	00
.00	-.567	-.57	The `.` symbol indicates the decimal point.
0.00	-.567	-0.57
#.#	-1234.567	-1234.6
#.######	-1234.567	-1234.567
.######	-1234.567	-1234.567
#.000000	-1234.567	-1234.567000
#,###,###	-1234.567	-1,235	The `,` symbol is used to group numbers.
#,###,###	-1234567.890	-1,234,568
#;(#)	-1234.567		The `;` symbol is used to specify an alternate pattern for negative values
'#'#	-1234.567	-#1235	The `'` symbol is used to quote literal symbols
'abc'#	-1234.567	-abc1235
#.######%	-1234.567	-123456.7%	The `%` symbol (as a prefix or suffix) multiplies the value by 100 and shows it as a percentage

There are even more pattern symbols and options available than those demonstrated in the examples above. If you want to find further options, you may look for documentation on the Java class DecimalFormat.