Custom Fields
Overview
Users may create any number of Custom Fields that can be used in various areas of the software including the following objects:
- Company (custom fields may be restricted to Customers only, Vendors only, Employees only or all three)
- Item (custom fields may be restricted to Product Items only or Service Items only or included on both)
- Assembly Build
- Bank Reconciliation
- Bank Transfer
- Bill
- Bill Payment
- Budget
- Cash Receipt
- Cash Sale
- Deposit
- Disassembly
- Dropship Delivery
- G/L Account
- Inventory Adjustment
- Item Receipt
- Journal Entry
- Lots Adjustment
- Order Closing
- Payment
- Purchase Order
- Purchase Return
- Quote
- Sales Order
- Sales Return
- Sales tax payment
- Serial Number Adjustment
- Shipment
- Statement
- Time Tracking
- Warehouse Transfer
Creating a Custom Field
To create a custom field,
- Navigate to Admin Panel / General Settings and click the Custom Fields link.
- Highlight the object that you want to place a custom field on in the list on the left.
- Click Create / New. The custom field creation screen will appear.
- Enter a name for the custom field. This will become the label for the custom field in the software.
- Check the Make this a required field if you wish for it to be required.
- Choose a value type.
- Boolean will create a checkbox custom field.
- Date will create a date custom field with a date picker widget.
- String will create a free-form field. The maximum characters and field length may be specified.
- Number will create a field that accepts number characters. Number of characters and precision (decimal places) may be specified.
- Address / contact will create a drop-down list of addresses/contacts from your addresses/contacts list.
- Company will create a drop-down list of companies from your company list.
- Custom Value will create the custom field as a drop down. If you choose this type, Click the create button and enter the list of values you would like to appear in the dropdown.
- Country will create the custom field as a drop-down list of Countries that have been entered in the Country list.
- Item will create the custom field as a drop-down list of Items in your inventory.
- Sales People will create the custom field as a drop-down list of sales people in the sales people list.
- Shipping Carrier will create the custom field as a drop-down list of shipping carriers from the shipping carriers list.
- User will create a drop-down list of account users in your account.
- Click OK.
- Some value types have additional formatting options. Click the format link to make changes if desired.
- Enter a tooltip to include a user tooltip that will appear when hovering over the field.
- Click Save and Close.
Using Custom Fields
Custom fields will appear in the appropriate document/object in a new tab called Custom Fields. The name of this tab may be renamed by navigating to More Actions / Change form, highlighting the Custom Fields entry on the left and changing the name in the right pane.
Creating a Custom Field
Last Updated 05/26/2021 - JML