Can I use icons instead of text for Managed Metadata?

Question

As an example, is there a way to use a managed metadata for languages spoken, but when viewing the list, the column would show a flag thumbnail instead of the text entry?

It looks like this is close, but I don't see how it could support multiple icons: Can I use a custom field type icon instead of value?

Answer 1

This is possible using JsLink. Suppose the Managed Metadata column has these terms

Save the flag images with the same name as terms somewhere in the library on in the layouts folder. A sample jslink code is below for list view.

CustomizeFieldRendering = function () {  
    SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides({
        Templates: {
            Fields: {
                'MM': {
                    'View':function(ctx) {
                      return "<img src='http://site_url/_layouts/15/images/"+ctx.CurrentItem.MM.Label+".png' width='50px'/>";
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });
}; 

ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(CustomizeFieldRendering, 'clienttemplates.js');

and the output is