Certain types of business information are intended for providing business insights “at a glance” and are best represented graphically rather than as text. Windchill uses graphical representations like icons to represent some of the information. You may have custom attributes which, if represented graphically, makes your users more efficient. You can create your own graphical representations if you find that the existing three out-of-the-box graphical representations for attributes are not sufficient for your needs.

The available out of the box the graphical representations are described in detail in the Reference section.