We’re trying to keep our UI graphics (icons, images, symbols) in a shared folder that we reference under /Media, so projects can reuse the same assets without copying them everywhere. The referenced folder shows up normally in Logical View and the files are visible, but when picking an image in mapp…

Media folder As you already seen, referenced packages seem not to be working if used in the Media folder. The file picker will not show the files, and even if the image path is manually entered, it will not show in the graphical Content Editor. However, during runtime it will still work, as the AS b…

Understand your idea. The AS wizard obviously only shows the media files that are physically stored in the Media folder (this is not the case for referenced files). Just a short note from me, as moderator: Even if the Community is often visited by product managers, it could be that someone takes t…

Hi Frederic, We’re struggling with a similar problem. What works really well for us in this case are symbolic links. These are accepted by Automation Studio in the Meda package. Links are automatically generated for us by a prebuild tool. Perhaps this is an option for you. Best regards, Simon …

Hi Simon, Thanks for the tip — I’ll definitely give that a try. I was hoping for a more direct solution in mappView itself, but your workaround does have the advantage of keeping everything centralized without duplicating files, which is exactly what we’re aiming for. Cheers, Frederic

Yes, a bit of harmless hacking may have been involved to get that referenced folder into the Media section :smiling_face_with_horns:. For now, I see both your suggestion and Simon’s as viable workarounds, but my preference would be to have a fully supported solution in future mappView versions—one t…

Support Referenced /Media Folders in MappView

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kovarj (Jaroslav Kovar) December 4, 2025, 6:48am 7

Since the topic has developed into a discussion on how to solve your issue, I moved it from Share Info and Ideas to the standard Ask Question category and marked the answer of @patrick.tanner as a possible solution.

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Support Referenced /Media Folders in MappView

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