Enum icon removed on system update

[former_member570877]

Hi,

We have a enum type which has icon associated with each value. For example:

<enumtype code="CountryCode">
  <value code="au"/>
</enumtype> 

Now we have added icon for each value using impex:

$version = Staged         
$contentCatalog = dummyContentCatalog         
$contentCV = catalogVersion(CatalogVersion.catalog(Catalog.id[default = $contentCatalog]), CatalogVersion.version[default = $version])[default = $contentCatalog:$version]         
$lang = en
UPDATE CountryCode ; code[unique = true] ; name[lang = $lang]  ; icon(code, $contentCV) ; 
                   ; au                  ; Australia           ; flag_icon_au 

But the icons value disappear when we run the System update by selecting 'update running system'.

Is there any way to resolve this. I don't want to select project/essential data as there are many others impexes added there.

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Vikram

[former_member624549]

welcome to the club! a dynamic enum does not loose its icons when the enum is dynamically created instead of a statically declared one. In your case you can try:

<enumtype code="CountryCode" dynamic="true">
</enumtype>

Then with impex create the enum's you need dynamically and your icon's will stay.

It may be better to not use the enumtype at all since its handling is special everywhere. Maybe a common item type will do?