Prefilling a Form with Emoji

Question

Hi everyone!
I’m surprising myself by not being able to figure this out. I swear at one point or another I had been able to pre-fill an airtable form with a field that includes an emoji.
For example, I want to pre-fill a single-select {Status} field in a form with a status of
“ :calendar:  Consult Scheduled”
I’ve tried it with the actual emoji character as well as with UTF-8 (hex) encoding (which is what Airtable spits out if I wrap the emoji in the ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT() function - see below).
https://airtable.com/shrIXXXXXXXXXXXXX?prefill_Status=%F0%9F%93%86%20Consult%20Scheduled
https://airtable.com/shrIXXXXXXXXXXXXX?prefill_Status=📆%20Consult%20Scheduled
Neither of these work. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I just forget about the emoji? Maybe try a different emoji?  :slightly_smiling_face:

AlliAlosa · Accepted Answer

It works for me…(https://airtable.com/shroRXi2vucFYllIA?prefill_Select=📆%20Consult%20Scheduled)Which browser are you using?Welp, I’m feeling pretty silly at the moment. I had other parameters in my URL and forgot to include another “prefill_” after my ampersand.My actual URL looked like"...?prefill_Contact=John%20Doe&Status=📆%20Consult%20Scheduled"When it should have looked like…"...?prefill_Contact=John%20Doe&prefill_Status=📆%20Consult%20Scheduled" :woman_facepalming:  Embarrassing.  Thanks for taking the time to help  :grinning_face_with_sweat:

Chen_Pro · Answer

Hi,Does the “ :calendar: ” icon is on your list in the single-select record?it’s must appear there first so you can “call” it with the link.

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