Visual and logo rules

Create chevrons, underlined headers, icons, conditional symbols, and company logos

Use these rules to turn cell content into visual elements. Layout, size, and margin settings keep the output aligned with the rest of the grid.

#Chevron rule

Use Chevron to place cell content inside arrows for a process, sequence, or timeline.

Chevrons turn a header row into a sequence of process steps

Style controls fill and outline. Set outline thickness to 0 to remove it.
Appearance controls skew, direction, and the flat starting edge.
Size and Margin control the arrow's dimensions and spacing.

Choose left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom, or bottom-to-top flow. With the flat starting edge enabled, each uninterrupted group starts flat; a gap starts a new group.

Chevron settings

Chevron style, appearance, size, and margin controls

#Header, underline rule

Use Header, underline to combine an underline with text formatting in one rule.

Underlined headers create a clear visual hierarchy

Line style sets color, width, and thickness. Width can be a fraction of the cell width or Automatic, which matches the text's width. Label style, Alignment, and Margin control the header text and its placement.

Header underline settings

Line and label controls for an underlined header

#Icon rule

Use Icon when every target should display the same symbol, such as a person icon beside an owner name.

Static icons identify owners while conditional icons show task status

Choose an icon and color under Style. Under Layout, decide whether the icon replaces the text, appears beside it inside the cell, or sits at the cell's edge.

Icon layouts can replace text or sit beside it

Use Size and Margin to adjust scale and spacing. The built-in icon picker does not support adding custom icons.

Icon rule settings

Icon choice, layout, size, and margin settings

#Icon conditional rule

Use Icon conditional for status indicators, trends, or categories where the symbol depends on data.

Different icons and colors selected from cell values

Select the target range and add the rule. Grunt can create initial conditions from the selected values.
Click + in Conditions to add a condition.
Choose an operator and value, such as Equals Completed or Greater than 0.
Set the icon and color for that condition.
Choose a layout, size, and margins for the resulting icons.

A condition associates a matching value with an icon and color

Icon conditional settings

The condition list and layout controls for value-dependent icons

If the condition is stored in a different column from the icons, use Value Source.

#Logo rule

Enter company names in a Visual Grid and add Logo to replace those names with logos. Sources can include cloud search and local folders configured in Grunt settings.

Company names replaced by logos alongside other table data

#Apply newly found logos

Some searches take a few seconds. When new results are ready, use the cloud download control on the object or Apply all in the Logo rule. This also applies when you change a company name and new logos become available.

Apply all adds the newly found logos to the object

#Choose a different variant

Click a logo in the rule view to see alternative results. Choose the correct variant, or refine the search term if the results match the wrong company or brand.

Alternative logo results and the search field for refining a match

#Use a local logo folder

Open Settings > Preferences and find Logo sources.
Click + and choose a folder containing your logo images.
Use cell text that matches each file name: mycompany for mycompany.png.
Drag the folder higher in the source list if it should take priority.

SVG and PNG are recommended. Keep the folder focused on logos to avoid unnecessary file searches.

Logo sources in Preferences include cloud search and local folders

Cloud logo search sends the search term to Google and Microsoft search services. If your data should stay local, uncheck the cloud source and use only the local folders.