⚡ Special Characters in Control Center

ro.fei

Hello! We have a few blueprints in Control Center with a lot of assets. We're trying to use emojis/icons to draw attention to certain sheets & group/sort them while minimizing the number of folders. For example, one folder might contain something like this:

• 🗺 Project Plan A
• 🗺 Project Plan B
• 🗺 Project Plan C
• 👥 My Tasks Report
• ⚡ Client Asset 1
• ⚡ Client Asset 2
• Employee Data
• Financial Data
• …

We named our sheets like the example above & updated the blueprints without issue, but unfortunately, when we provisioned a test project, the 🗺 & 👥 in the asset names both caused errors. However, we were able to successfully keep the ⚡ icons for our client assets without issue!

That was months ago & our program users love it, so we want to utilize this practice more—we just need at least 1 more symbol we can use!! This leads me to 2 questions:

1. What other emojis/icons can I use in asset names with Control Center?
2. Why is Control Center alright with the icon but not the others?

Thanks so much in advance! Let me know if you need any additional details

Georgie

Hi @ro.fei,

What a fun idea! From what I’ve found, it appears that special characters including icons/emojis are not fully supported in Control Center, which is why you’re seeing the error message. It looks like you’ve found an emoji that is supported! 

Perhaps there are other icons/emojis that are supported, but I would recommend submitting your feature request to the Product team by creating an Idea Post in the Smartsheet Product Feedback and Ideas topic here in the Community. This will allow other users to vote on your enhancement idea!

Out of curiosity, I had a look at the emojis you’ve tried on this list and found that the emoji that’s working has a shorter unicode than the ones that aren’t working, so it could be that emojis with shorter unicodes work and longer unicodes don’t work. That is, these are the emojis you’re using and their unicodes:

• 547 - “busts in silhouette” (doesn’t work) - U+1F465
• 854 - “map” (doesn't work) - U+1F5FA
• 1060 - “high voltage” (does work) - U+26A1

You could therefore test out using some emojis with shorter unicodes similar to the unicode for ‘high voltage’ and see if those also work. If you find more emojis that do work, please come back and update this thread to help other members!

Thanks, 

Georgie