I was playing around the other day and I realized that you can paste emojis into tulip expressions. You can copy them from a website like this one and paste it directly into a string expression. At first, I found this entertaining.
Then I realized how powerful this could be! Previously, there was not a way to determine a color value based on analyses results. Now, this kind of thing becomes possible in situations where you aren’t able to use aggregations:
This gives a ton of flexibility inside of apps. Here I overlayed another analysis with a transparent background on top of this one to create a more visual uptime display.
By the way:
Windows users can hit [Win]+[.] and get an Emoji selector
This also includes some other useful symbols-tabs with symbols like these and many more: ⅞ ≥ α ∞ ⇆ ‱
Emoji’s are generally supported. I’ve used them in a similar way for years with only one issue… some operating systems or charactersets render differently. So, if you use the app on an Android operating system or something of this nature, that particular emoji might show up differently.
I’m pretty sure it can be resolved by downloading a new character set or keyboard on that OS. Either way, I’m pretty sure emojis are here to stay
Using the suggestion above I was thinking about making simple IF statement that compares a table field with current date/time to show a emoji or colored button - like Dan shows in the article. Then I can easily make a dashboard that shows the current status based on timestamps from table fields.
When working with the expression builder and IF statement as proposed above it would seem to me that we are missing a “Current date / time” option in the expression builder. Or is there another nifty way to achieve that?
