Display number property in collection table as stars

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What do you need help with?

Is there any way how I can display a number, for example in the range from 1 to 5, as the same number of stars (or other icons) so that it becomes a rating? Numbers themselves are not as clear, since they could also be school grades, and I prefer not to add extra explanations to the table. Star rating is already well-established.

OS

darwin arm64 26.5.0

Anytype Version

0.55.5

Network Mode

any

Technical Information

OS version: darwin arm64 26.5.0
App version: 0.55.5
Build number: build on 2026-06-02 16:45:57 +0000 UTC at #5e888f1b9b8590575ea81da218e95c472daf0fdf
Library version: v0.50.8
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Yes, there is a way. You could use this principle:

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But if you want to input a number but see the automatically generated representation as stars, then there is actually no way. Because Anytype still doesn’t support formulas (they are on the roadmap though).

But see my next post, I have a different approach for you …

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A very different and more mighty approach is to use Embeds in Objects.
You asked specific for “collection table” (you mean the Grid View), but let’s not overlook the possibilities what you can do inside of a single Object if you use Embeds!

See this example that uses the Mermaid Embed:

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Two useful links:

  1. Example how to use Chart.js
  2. Online FlowChart & Diagrams Editor - Mermaid Live Editor
    (Click on “Config” to chose a different diagram style.)
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Thank you, @Code-Jack, that is helpful!

I considered stars as menu options but my next idea was to calculate an average. I’ve done something like that with Notion where I displayed different options (i.e. products we were considering) in rows and each team member could vote in their column, visiualized as small progress bar. The average voting per product was displayed again as progress bar (internally calculated as numbers) and the columns were sorted by this average.

Formulas would solve that problem, so I will wait for that feature.