# Set Icon via Formula **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Created:** [September 25, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190 "2023-09-25T09:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**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 25, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/1 "2023-09-25T09:45:44Z")
Hi, Is it possible that icons cannot be set via a Formula yet? I would like to give my Views an icon that represents the product they belong to. So I made a simple little formula called `Icon` that reads the icon of the product and. ![2023-09-25 at 17.40](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/e/e4bbc6203711f1d86a1073ca0c78317d64502227.png) The formula works and I cannot add any other Icon, but still, the actual icon doesn’t show up in any of the lists: ![2023-09-25 at 17.44](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/4/4c2904c3c4e5b284c44d68d34a1df3cc710e2810.png) and ![2023-09-25 at 17.45](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/d83cf4832beb4a0873796842b1194b449b2b6080.png) Thanks! Wolf ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/2 "2023-09-25T10:09:09Z")
I think the problem is that there is a difference between **the** Icon field and a field with the name _Icon_. As an analogy, if you create a field called State, you won’t be able to add the Workflow field, since it has to have the name State and that name is now already taken. This doesn’t mean that the field you created will function in the same way as the native workflow field. Similarly, if you define a (formula) field called Icon, you are prohibiting yourself from using the native Icon functionality, but the field you created will not behave as the native Icon field does. At the moment, there is no way to define an icon using a formula, sorry ---
**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 25, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/3 "2023-09-25T14:02:28Z")
Thanks, @Chr1sG, for confirming my suspicion. I trust the FRQ is somewhere in the ever-growing pile of features we all are asking for. 🫣🫠 Not an urgent one, but obviously great once all the magic fields can be set by formula as well. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/4 "2023-09-25T14:28:21Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f4c123c02ea17f5c307fc85bfb66052b4045d687.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:** [November 24, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/5 "2024-11-24T13:55:33Z")
> [@November 14, 2024 / Set Icon with a formula, Markdown Templates AI Assistant, Resize and scale text in textbox](https://community.fibery.io/t/november-14-2024-set-icon-with-a-formula-markdown-templates-ai-assistant-resize-and-scale-text-in-textbox/7797): > > Keep entities in recent items up to date The most important thing in today’s update is that Recent entities are always fresh snowflake now, so when you will rename, change or delete an entity, it will be displayed correctly in Recent items. Set Icon with a Formula Now you can dynamically set icons for entities in your database using formulas: change task icon based on missing deadline (green_circle red_circle) invent your own status icon for people (headphones palm_tree no_bell) s… Solved properly I hope ---
**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:** [November 24, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/set-icon-via-formula/5190/6 "2024-11-24T14:01:26Z")