Add emojis to tables on Jira Cloud Automation

Question

Hello everyone,

I hope you all are doing great. I have a quick question, do you all know how can we add flag emojis to the tables on Automation?

I want to add the flag emojis corresponding to the countries im prefilling on my custom field.

I managed to add those emojis with windows 10 emojis, but i cannot find flag emojis on windows 10. Is there another way to add them?

Thanks a lot!!

Jesus Octavio Gutierrez Villegas · Answer

Hello Bill,

Thanks a lot for your answer! Its a shame we cannot use all of the emojis in Automation.

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Jesus Octavio Gutierrez Villegas

For the scenario you have described of using the country flag emoji in a table created by an automation rule in the description field, I do not believe that is possible for a least a couple of reasons:

* The country emoji which can be selected manually while editing the description do not seem to be preserved when an automation rule changes the description.  Even if you add them manually by editing the description, and later add additional text to the description with a rule, they are lost.
* Not all of the table formatting which is possible when manually editing can be recreated with an automation rule, including some embedded macro and emoji information.  If you export data (or call the REST API) and used that same data in a rule, the results are different.

Kind regards,
Bill

Jesus Octavio Gutierrez Villegas · Answer

Hello, thanks for answering. Can these emojis be used on Jira Cloud Automation? :)