Tool icon won't show as a toolbar icon

tgwinn · November 11, 2025, 3:47pm

I have a simple custom tracker application built in App Studio using the wizard.

I want the Refresh All icon to appear as a toolbar icon at top, so users don’t have to use the 3-dot menu to refresh. But I cannot get the tool to show.

The entry “refreshAll” was already there. I enabled Add to Primary Toolbar (also tried the Secondary Toolbar), tried setting Sequence to a value of 1; but nothing seems to work to show it on the toolbar when I Preview the app.

To be clear, in the app created by the wizard there are no toolbar icons - only the 3-dot menu.

What am I missing?

NateS · November 11, 2025, 3:58pm

I added a plain old button to the header area in the panel. Then setup the button this way:

In the button on-click event, just trigger the dvrefresh that is added by the wizard:

If you don’t have label test in your button, then you just get the icon. Otherwise you get both icon and text.
Good luck!

cory.davis · November 11, 2025, 4:36pm

If you go back to the page-details properties, do you have a Max Items In Toolbar set? it’s the very bottom of the Advanced section.

tgwinn · November 11, 2025, 4:51pm

Max Items in Toolbar is set to 6.

Tried changing it to 3, then to 9. Still no toolbar icons.

cory.davis · November 11, 2025, 4:58pm

You could also try adding it from the page-details on the Application Map screen in app studio. Should be the same but we all know app studio has its quirks.

I tried both with a manually created dashboard app (no wizard) and they both worked the same way.

tgwinn · November 11, 2025, 5:08pm

Thanks - the button approach works! But it also sidesteps the original issue with the toolbar.

It’s so hard to tell with Kinetic - it seems like 50% of the time it’s something I’m doing wrong but the other 50% of the time it’s a Kinetic bug.

NateS · November 11, 2025, 5:31pm

I couldn’t get any tools or buttons to show refresh aside from the approach I posted. Would love to see how to use toolbars properly!

jwphillips · November 11, 2025, 6:40pm

What if you name it something else? Add another button there and call it something else
There might be something keeping that refreshAll button hidden/disabled…

NateS · November 11, 2025, 7:11pm

Oh Yeah! That seems to work too. This is how I changed the existing refreshAll entry in the page-detail > Tools:
EDIT: Actually I just added a new “Tool”, I didn’t edit the existing refresh All.

Edit, maybe it was just clicking the Add to Primary ToolBar flag… Who knows, flipping Kinetic…
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Hally · November 13, 2025, 12:21pm

Interesting was looking at adding the save tool to the stage ship confirm app and had the same issue, will try the rename trick…

tgwinn · November 13, 2025, 4:09pm

Yes, but this is still adding ‘buttons’, not the ‘tool’ icons.