Abdul Rahman
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## Summary Today the avatar/icon shown for a record is hardcoded per object — Company pulls a favicon from its domain link, Person uses `avatarUrl`, etc. This PR replaces that hardcoding with a generic, data-driven abstraction based on a configurable **image identifier field** on each object's metadata (mirroring the existing **label identifier** concept). An object's image identifier can point to: - a **`FILES`** field → the uploaded image is used directly (rounded avatar), or - a **`LINKS`** field → a favicon is derived from the primary URL via the Twenty icons service (squared avatar), gated by `ALLOW_REQUESTS_TO_TWENTY_ICONS`. This lets any object type (Opportunity, a custom "Listing", etc.) define its own avatar/icon without code changes, and makes the field configurable/overridable for standard objects. ## ❓ Open question: also allow `TEXT` → direct image URL? Right now the image identifier is restricted to `FILES` (uploaded file) and `LINKS` (favicon). We deliberately left out `TEXT` → **direct image URL** (e.g. an imported/synced photo URL stored in a text field). There's precedent for it — Person's avatar was originally a `TEXT` `avatarUrl`, and WorkspaceMember still is — and it's unambiguous (a `TEXT` field has no favicon-vs-image ambiguity, and selecting it as the image identifier is itself the declaration of intent). It's a small, clean extension: - add `TEXT` to the allowed image-identifier types, - add an explicit `TEXT → raw URL` case - `getAvatarType`: `TEXT → rounded`. Caveats: it relies on admin assertion that the text values are image URLs (no data-level guarantee), and external image URLs load third-party content in the browser (IP-leak/hotlinking, same as favicons — a proxy/cache would be the more robust long-term answer). ### ✅ Resolution Decision: **we will not support `TEXT` as an image identifier.** Image identifiers stay restricted to `FILES` and `LINKS`, and any other type fails closed (returns no avatar) on both the frontend and backend. Instead, the legacy items that still rely on a `TEXT` avatar — Person's deprecated `avatarUrl` and WorkspaceMember's `avatarUrl` — will be migrated to `FILE` fields in a follow-up PR. Until then, WorkspaceMember remains an exception (its `avatarUrl` still resolves through the existing CorePicture path), and legacy Person `avatarUrl` values that haven't been migrated will show initials placeholders. <!-- This is an auto-generated description by cubic. --> <a href="https://cubic.dev/pr/twentyhq/twenty/pull/22644?utm_source=github" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-no-image-dialog="true"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://www.cubic.dev/buttons/review-in-cubic-dark.svg"><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://www.cubic.dev/buttons/review-in-cubic-light.svg"><img alt="Review in cubic" src="https://www.cubic.dev/buttons/review-in-cubic-dark.svg"></picture></a> <!-- End of auto-generated description by cubic. -->
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