# SVG file browser caching

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/svg-file-browser-caching/90314>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 13, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/svg-file-browser-caching/90314 "2024-05-13T14:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Deardorff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan_deardorff/32/63815_2.png) [@Ryan\_Deardorff](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ryan_Deardorff)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/svg-file-browser-caching/90314/1 "2024-05-13T14:53:23Z")

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As I add new SVG icons to my project, I would like to be able to just keep adding to a single .svg file. The problem with that is, it won't show up in browsers until their cached version of the file expires, and I have no way of knowing how long that will be (and can't expect users to manually refresh). The only way to ensure that new icons show up is to create a whole new .svg file. This has resulted in lots of files, which makes finding them in the Designer tricky, because you can only search one file/library of icons at a time.

The typical solution to this kind of problem in web development is to add a unique query string to the file reference so as to force browsers not to use their cached version. I don't know where or how those references are getting created in Ignition, and as far as I know there is no way to implement this trick. Am I wrong about that? And if not, could this kind of configuration be made available in a future release?