# Set entity type with special character (in search fields) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [August 19, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-entity-type-with-special-character-in-search-fields/4984 "2023-08-19T16:32:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dukevannori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@dukevannori](https://community.fibery.io/u/dukevannori)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-entity-type-with-special-character-in-search-fields/4984/1 "2023-08-19T16:32:16Z")
it would be awesome to quickly set entity type by a character in search with a leading @,#,% something like that. and autocomplete. (no idea how types with same name could be handled though) but this way it’s not the mouse and also not a few tabs to choose entities types and it would be even faster to create new ones. f.e. CMD+k … new idea @idea … enter, done ---
**Author:** ![njyo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/njyo/32/923_2.png) [@njyo](https://community.fibery.io/u/njyo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-entity-type-with-special-character-in-search-fields/4984/2 "2023-09-06T16:49:34Z")
This would be neat indeed, sadly I have no more votes left. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Minh\_Tri\_Do\_Hang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/minh_tri_do_hang/32/6791_2.png) [@Minh\_Tri\_Do\_Hang](https://community.fibery.io/u/Minh_Tri_Do_Hang)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-entity-type-with-special-character-in-search-fields/4984/3 "2023-09-07T02:46:37Z")
this 's metadata in Obsidian, assign 1 symbol in title for 1 type of data Ex: @ for people type, ! for book type, $ for video type … It’s really a quick way for search bar to except several database