Text Symbols

In one of the models on the App Hub I have found a text-formatted line item with a tick symbol (✔ - possibly a check in American?) input. How can symbols be input as text? What symbols are acceptable? I tried some Wingdings, for example, but they didn't work. Mark.

Accepted answers

All comments

PrevContributor

I think anything from a UTF-8 character set should work. Technically I might be not quite right there, but cetainly when I take them from somewhere like this it seems to be OK http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_utf8.asp

As an example, I've just added a Radioactive Hot Beverage product to a model of mine (☢ ☕)

Other useful examples include...

Getting a sparkline type trend indicator using arrows (↗↘↔). i.e. IF Growth >0.05 then ↗ ELSE IF Growth <-0.05 then ↘ ELSE ↔ (nice when used with conditional formats)

Or even I sometimes have dummy lists as a way of arranging my lists. i.e. in the settings having

▽ PRODUCT HIERARCHY ▽
Product Categories
Product Families
Products
▽ GEOGRAPHIC HIERARCHY ▽
Regions
Sub Regions
Countries

PrevContributor

Adam,

UTF-8 works just great, there's plenty of symbols, and Dingbats as well. My limited testing suggests that the symbols that my browser supports on the website you suggested are supported into Anaplan as well.

Thanks very much,

Mark.

Quick Links

Can you help?

Unanswered questions

Batch Script
Hello team, I am logging into Anaplan through SSO. I would like to create a batch script to import a file into Anaplan. For the Spoke model, I would like to run an process via a batch script to import data from the Data Hub. Can anyone provide me script for both the condition.
import monthly data with months in columns
is there a way to import data with months in columns (usual excel table view)? I have to transform the data so there are rows to cover each period in the upload data form, but I am wondering if there is a better way to just import the data as is with the months in the columns. please let me know what you think. thank you,
Cloudworks Big Query Integration Fail
Hello, I am receiving an 'Anaplan Upload Failed' Status Description when testing my integration with a Big Query dataset. The integration imports data from BQ to our Anaplan model. No other details given in the error log. I suspect that Cloudworks is not even picking up the file but am not sure what we did wrong on the set…