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What's the best icon to use, in order to indicate “Nothing Happened” or “No Data”?

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Question added by Rahaf Masri , Account Sales Director , MT3 Digital
Date Posted: 2015/10/07
Yaqoub Alomar
by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality

To imply nothing happened / no data, I would use "nothing" - IE an empty circle:

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jeffrey decena
by jeffrey decena , MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN HVAC AND ELECTRICAL , MUSAED EL-SEIF & SONS COMPANY LTD

warning sign and shoutdown logo

 

Muhammad shehzad Khan Niazi
by Muhammad shehzad Khan Niazi , Computer Hardware Engineer , Niazi Enterprises

big red cross mark will be perfect, with subtitle of NO Data, or No File Found

Amer Khattab
by Amer Khattab , Senior Web and Graphic Designer / SEO / ServerAdmin , Hybrid Solutions (VertexFX Platform)

use sheet or paper icon to point data and mix it with red x to point not available

Merylyn Relator
by Merylyn Relator , Administration Assistant/Data Encoder/Sales Clerk , Kalin Inc.

you can use the empty word or you can use the zero sign with slash in the middle.

Ghada Eweda
by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

This is shown in a matrix of Scheduled OperationsMatrix

the matrix has server names on the y-axis and dates on the x-axis

I need an icon that represents "No Schedule".

My first thought wasGrey Minus icon,but I really don't feel like this is the right icon for "No schedule" or "nothing happened".

What would be the "right" pictogram for this in your opinion?

The data I'm showing is a matrix of clickable status indicators (the icons are the status indicators) - when you click an icon, you get details about the event.

My icons suite looks like this;

  • Success - Scheduled Operation Succeeded (Nothing went wrong)
  • InProgress - Scheduled Operation is In progress
  • Failed - Operation missed its scheduled (basically as hard fail)
  • Warning - Scheduled Operation Failed
  • Waiting - Scheduled Operation is waiting to start

Romeo Espeleta
by Romeo Espeleta , Expert Server , APPLEBEES BAR AND GRILL RESTAURANT

you can use (!) or (?) in no data.

warning / notice will do the job 

Not applicable   N/a  also helps

Lorence Bugarin
by Lorence Bugarin , Secretary cum Human Resources Assistance , Royal Beach Resort & Spa 5*

better use a shape traingle puting (!) inside on it.

the best icon is the (X) icon

! Often one of the symbols either X or

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