# Make Entity Icon (avatar) visible in table view **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [August 23, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907 "2020-08-23T17:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nimesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nimesh](https://community.fibery.io/u/nimesh)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/1 "2020-08-23T17:34:26Z")
Currently, we can not see the avatar of entities in the table view. But the avatar are visible for linked items. It would be great if we could have a column to turn it. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/2 "2020-08-23T19:17:12Z")
I’m not sure what you mean @nimesh When I have an entity with the Assignments and Avatar extensions enabled, I can choose to see the avatar of the assigned user in table view. Type definition: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/8/8817e5bda0b2f67dda47b2d08d40115af3d40413.png) Table view: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f0667d7fea9517fa0329443ddc594d46d0227aec.png) ---
**Author:** ![nimesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nimesh](https://community.fibery.io/u/nimesh)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/3 "2020-08-27T15:04:08Z")
I hope this can help in better understanding it. It would be more visually appealing as well. Also, we could add some emojis as an avatar, it would be even interesting ![avatar](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f23ccb745bf51ee9d94c3a125be51ea6c8c66674.png) . ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/4 "2020-08-27T15:51:57Z")
So do you mean that each entity should be able to have it’s own icon/symbol? ---
**Author:** ![nimesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nimesh](https://community.fibery.io/u/nimesh)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/5 "2020-08-27T17:50:00Z")
To be exact, if we have avatar extension enabled, we should have the option to make it visible in a column. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/6 "2020-08-27T22:04:31Z")
Sorry, i get it now. Nice suggestion. There is a cheeky workaround if it’s _really_ important to you: define a ‘helper’ type that links in a one-to-one relationship to the type you’re originally working with. Then define a lookup field from the ‘helper’ relationship back to the original type. For each original entity, create and link a new dummy entity of the helper type, and the lookup column will now show the original entity’s avatar and name. Simple 😉 ---
**Author:** ![interr0bangr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/interr0bangr/32/8089_2.png) [@interr0bangr](https://community.fibery.io/u/interr0bangr)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/7 "2024-01-19T14:21:19Z")
I don’t know if this is the relevant place to ask, but there’s no way to make an “icon” field get displayed as an “avatar”, right? I want to see just a state field’s icon on an entity, but it seems like the icon only gets displayed in conjunction with the “name” field. I was hoping the icon field would be treated similarly to the “avatar” field where it could be displayed independently. ---
**Author:** ![helloitse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/helloitse/32/498_2.png) [@helloitse](https://community.fibery.io/u/helloitse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-entity-icon-avatar-visible-in-table-view/907/8 "2026-02-20T21:52:25Z")
I found this feature request when looking for something about the fact that icons are inconveniently spaced when listed as their own column as opposed to the Notion example above where icons are visualized next to the entity name. Ideally, we can enable seeing the icon/avatar instead of the entity type “dot” ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/d6718423ec98e81f31d1ca68fd57449aea50e837.png) This is the best existing feature request that I can find on the topic, but It does seem like what is being discussed here has ended up as 3 different features over time. The request for an avatar and icon column, having already been completed as of today.