Hello OmarGator,
Thank you for posting on the NI Discussion Forums. I am assuming that you have a custom step type with a default icon assigned to it, and you would like to see the icon saved with the custom step type, instead of having its own space in memory and being “linked” to the step. As it is right now, there is no other way to assign a default icon to a custom step other than going to the properties dialogue for the step by right-clicking on the step in MyTypes.ini and selecting Properties…, and then on the General tab, selecting an icon from the Designate an Icon pull-down menu (which will be grayed out if you do not have a check mark placed in the box next to it). The icons in this menu populate from the <TestStand>\Components\Icons directory and/or the <TestStand Public>\Components\Icons directory. For information on creating your own icon to use within TestStand, check out the KnowledgeBase article <a href="http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/57421ABA61A2D169862571EA00009955?OpenDocument" target="_blank">Creating Icons for Use in TestStand</a>.
You can also change an individual step’s icon within a client sequence file by selecting the step, going to the Properties tab and in the General category, selecting an icon from the Icon pull-down menu. This gives you a choice of the same list of icons as mentioned above, and only changes the icon for that particular instance of the step.
The reason that icons and steps are stored individually is so that (1) the user has the freedom to choose what icon they would like to associate with a step type, and (2) each step can be matched with any of the icons in the icon directories (modularity is KEY in TestStand). However, if you would like to see the icons stored with the step types in a single file, then I would encourage you to make a product suggestion at our <a href="http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?openform" target="_blank">Product Suggestion Center</a>.
Thanks for the feedback!