I’ve created an app that provides a board view and writes text into a board text column. The text includes emoji characters which are visible in the text column, but disappear when the user navigates away from the board and then back to the board. The app uses the change_column_value mutation to set the column text.
Example board text as copied using Chrome dev tools after the app writes to the text column is as follows:
<span class="text-content">🙂 Level 4: Multi team lead</span>
Thank you for providing a detailed and step-by-step description of what you are working with, and the result that brings you! I really appreciate your approach here.
To be transparent with you, this is rather related to the way our platform processes Emojis in columns at the time. It’s a somewhat strange behavior and I definitely understand how it would be counter-intuitive, but I’m afraid not all emojis are supported to be used in columns. From what we could tell after testing, only certain emojis are supported, and they have to be <3 bytes. Usually, this means that the unicode value for them is less than 7 characters.
I’ve just tested the exact Emoji you’ve provided and it did disappear for me after refreshing within the column values of a Text column, but it seems to like the Long Text column enough to stay there:
To make this a little easier for you to work with, here is a resource that shows all of the Emojis supported in column values:
That said, we do get questions and feedback about this quite frequently and I’ll pass your case as another instance where our users would benefit from a better Emoji support within the platform overall.
I would add that having support for a greater amount of emojis would be a useful and fun feature.
One of the great things about Monday is how visual it is and it would be great to add a bit of personality to each of our boards. Full support of emojis would help us do that. Using them in group names and column titles would also help our team quickly understand the purpose of the different board components by adding that visual indicator.
I would love to see this supported in a future update.
Here’s another list of emojis (everything with bytes appears to work on Monday short text locations). I also want to have 4-byte emojis on the interface. This issue is affected on headers, buttons, status fields, other custom fields, and many other places that would help to save space!
Thanks for sharing that resource with us, and contributing to this feature request I agree that having more emojis in the arsenal for boards would be quite helpful to add more visual flavor.
Also, thanks for letting us know about the link. We’ll look into this to see what might be going on there.
Well yes, visual flavor is nice and everything, (really, it is- my entire company is remote- has been even before COVID, and emojis help us feel that tiny bit more social.)
But originally, I wanted to use them to save space and make required columns more prominent, since there’s no way to change column styling in Monday.
For example, if a button based automation:gear: requires column 1, 2 and 5 to work properly, I’d like to show the red button emoji on all of the columns that are linked to the button.
Of course, the button itself would not require any text. Instead, the button can be: . Alas, Monday doesn’t support what my boss calls the “red button emoji.”
(Did I mention that bosses love red buttons?!)
Also, certain things take up way less space, like the emoji instead of the word ‘link’, or the emoji to represent the word “writing.”
doesn’t work anymore.
bytes appears to work on Monday short text locations). I also want to have 4-byte emojis on the interface. This issue is affected on headers, buttons, status fields, other custom fields, and many other places that would 
help to save space!
I agree that having more emojis in the arsenal for boards would be quite helpful to add more visual flavor. 
based automation:gear: requires column 1, 2 and 5 to work properly, I’d like to show the red button 
emoji on all of the columns that are linked to the button.
emoji instead of the word ‘link’, or the 
emoji to represent the word “writing.”