How do I create custom fields for projects, collaborators, or contacts?

Add new fields on forms. Personalize, give more details and information about your projects, collaborators and contacts

✅ Determine internally which fields would be useful depending on the poles (invoicing, HR, project manager, etc.)

🔓 Permissions required

super admin

Reading time 6 min
Setup length 5 min
Steps 5

Summary

I/ How to create custom fields

II/ Project fields

III/ Collaborators fields

IV/ Contact fields

V/ Invoice fields

 

I/ Create custom fields

 

Go to your profile at the top right > settings

settings

Then go to General > Custom Fields.
Place yourself in the project, contact, collaborator or invoices tab. To add a custom field, click + fields

new-field

Then complete the form.

Name your field and select the type:

  • a text

  • a large text field

  • an integer

  • one decimal

  • a date

You can also indicate a default value according to your fields, then make it mandatory and/or visible and fillable only by admins.

Click on validate

add-field

It's done ! 🎉

You have created a custom field!

Here are examples of custom fields for projects

field-custom

 

II/ Project fields

Go to a project then to the settings tab > details

project-field

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and fill in the field you created.

project-field2
It's done ! 🎉

You will see the information in the project summary

dashboard-project

III/ Collaborators fields

Go to collaborators > collaborators then click on the profile of a collaborator

collaborators-field

In the info tab, complete the form with your custom fields. Click save.

edit-field


You will then see the detail in the summary tab of the collaborator's profile.

It's done ! 🎉

 

IV/ Contact fields

To acces to the contact tab, you have to activate it in the collaborators> collaborators page > admin > contacts.
contact-field

Go to collaboration > contacts then click on a contact.

contacts

Fill in the contact form where you will find your personalized fields.

Click save.

contact-filed

It's done ! 🎉

 

V/ Invoice fields

 

Go to management > invoices then on your invoices, find in the summary tab, in the left menu all the personalized fields.

invoice-field

It's done ! 🎉

Please note that custom fields are only available if your style guide is the default OOTI one. If you have customized your style guide with variables, these fields will no longer be accessible.