# Using an icons in formulae and embeds **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [March 6, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942 "2024-03-06T12:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **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:** [March 6, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/1 "2024-03-06T12:47:24Z")
Somehow icons are still limited in use. Here are some examples 😢 # Icons in formulae I like that Workflow states have Icons. But I would like to be able to show these in the parent entity names through a formula. Unfortunately that is not possible: ![2024-03-06 at 20.40](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/c/cc96a54047f4047d55b55056d19f9ffc1c99ff6d.png) So the only way to do this, is to add an additional text field to the State with the very same Icon. Cumbersome 😢 # Icons in embeds Analogously, I would like to be able to set the icon to be shown where an entity is embedded, but that is also not possible: ![2024-03-06 at 20.44](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/29859c7a769e422846d0693586ab6cf2a8ba8fae.png) Would be great if both of these could be enabled. Thanks! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/2 "2024-03-26T09:51:37Z")
@Chr1sG and @Polina_Zenevich, any news on this? Especially in formulae it’d be great to have the icons usable. Thanks! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/3 "2024-03-26T09:53:38Z")
Nothing to report, 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:** [March 26, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/4 "2024-03-26T11:42:11Z")
Thanks for letting me know, @Chr1sG! Hope this can make its way into the roadmap as a small refinement sometime. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![schorsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@schorsch](https://community.fibery.io/u/schorsch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/5 "2024-03-31T18:35:31Z")
+1. it would improve on Fibery’s already great visibility: in conditionally generated name formulas it could be used to indicate existence of different db entities or relations below current level. especially since there is no collapse/expand all functionality yet. ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/6 "2024-11-14T15:27:27Z")
You can set icons (for Entity) via formula now > [@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/7797/1): > > 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… ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/7 "2024-11-14T15:45:03Z")
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**Author:** ![Sev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Sev](https://community.fibery.io/u/Sev)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/8 "2026-03-07T13:53:16Z")
Since the original [request from March 2024](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942) was closed, I am re-opening it here, based on the following history: 1. @nyjo had [requested the ability to add (i.e. concatenate) an emoji type and a text type](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942), e.g. `State.Icon + " " + "Release " + Left(ToText([Schedule Dates].End()), 7)` 2. @schorsch [re-affirmed](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/5) it saying “in conditionally generated name formulas it could be used to indicate…” 3. @jurgenappelo [restated](https://community.fibery.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-use-emojis-in-text-output-of-formulas/9187/3) it saying “I have a formula-generated text with multiple icons in the text…” 4. The really cool solution of having a [formula’s output type be emoji i.e. icon](https://community.fibery.io/t/november-14-2024-set-icon-with-a-formula-markdown-templates-ai-assistant-resize-and-scale-text-in-textbox/7797#p-28918-set-icon-with-a-formula-2), is great for some use cases, but it **still does not address the original requests above** of being able to mix emoji type and text type in a useful way. Currently, assuming the state has the sample icon of 🐞 (ladybug) ```auto State.Icon + " Some Text" // outputs: :ladybug: Some Text // NOT the expected: 🐞 Some Text ``` Unless there were a function to convert **emoji shortcode to unicode text** , the output above is pretty much useless in many cases, not to mention that it breaks the Fibery’s strictly types addition/concatenation, by not requiring conversion to text of the eomji type using the ToText. ### Patch/Hacky Solutions Two that are just temporary patches, because they would render Unicode Emojis, which **a)** do not include custom emojis, and **b)** look different on different devices versus the fibery emojis that have a normalised look, since they are actual images. e.g. the first one is Fibery, and the second one is Windows. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/d4ea8bf3c8261a10372ebfc60ba43cd4bc23b15a.png) - For `ToText()` accept Emoji Types (which it currently does not) and actually convert the shortcode to unicode. - To create a new `ToUnicodeEmoji()` which accepts a Text Type containing a valid emoji shortcode, as well as an Emoji (i.e. Icon) Type, in both cases outputting Text Type containing the Unicode character(s). Of course this would also not work with custom emojis, but it is at least a limited, **specific function claiming to convert things into Unicode Emojis. and it will fulfil exactly that**. ### More Full Solution And then the real, but much more involved solution: - A solution that would work fully for unicode and custom emojis as well as other things such as markdown (bold/italics/links/etc.), by leaving the output as short codes, but having Text Type Formula Outputs be fully rendered into a formatted component on the display layer, but it is a vast project, as we discussed in [my topic on Markdown rendering of Text Type Formula Outputs](https://community.fibery.io/t/render-text-formula-output-as-markdown-optionally/9689). ---
**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:** [March 7, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/9 "2026-03-07T17:08:20Z")
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**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:** [March 7, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/using-an-icons-in-formulae-and-embeds/5942/10 "2026-03-07T17:09:33Z")
I’ve reopened the original and merged