Custom fields capture data for you that is important to your business but not a part of your Aha! account by default. You can add any number of fields to suit your needs.
To avoid cluttering the UI with unused fields, we suggest that you add only what is essential. If you find yourself with a cluttered list of custom fields, you can always merge fields together or convert one type to another.
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Create a custom field
Follow these steps to create a custom field. Depending on the custom field type you select, you may be interested in the notes after the instructions.
Navigate to Settings ⚙️→ Account → Custom fields.
Click a tab to select a record type, and then click Add custom field.
Select the type of field you want to add, and then click Next.
Enter the field details and, if needed, enter an API key in the Key field. Depending on the custom field type you select, this step is also where you can bulk edit predefined field values.
Specify the custom layout where your custom field should appear by choosing Use in layouts and selecting the custom field layout in use by your team. If you do not have any custom layouts yet, choose Use in teams. This will automatically create a new custom layout for your new custom field and assign that layout to the team you have selected.
Click Create to create your field.
Record relationship fields allow you to associate Aha! Develop records with other record types. These are a tag type field that allow for multiple selections — though users will only be able to select values that they have appropriate user permissions to see. If you create a record relationship custom field, you can use Filter field values to specify whether the selectable values should span your entire Aha! Develop account or be isolated to a specific subset of your account's teams.
Some extensions, such as Figma, or the Sentry importer, come with their own custom fields. You cannot customize these fields; installing the extension creates the custom fields automatically, and you can then add them to a custom layout.
Customize your custom field
If you created a custom field with choices — such as choice lists or tags fields — then you can customize the color and order of the choices after you create them.
To do this, click your custom field in the list of custom fields.
In the Choices section, click and drag to reorder the choices.
Click Manage choices or Manage tag choices to open the Configure options page, then click Edit beside any choice to rename it or give it a specific Color. Click Save to save your edits.
Add the custom field to a custom layout
Every record in your Aha! Develop account has a layout — an arrangement of fields and tabs. You can create custom layouts to customize that arrangement, require or hide fields, or add in your own custom fields. Navigate to Settings ⚙️→ Account → Custom layouts to add your custom field to a layout. If you added your custom field to a layout while creating it, use this page to adjust where on a layout you want your field to appear.
There are two types of custom layouts — one for a record's creation, and one for the record after its creation. You can set a different layout for each type of view — the Record create layout and the Record view layout. You may only want to require a few fields for a user to create a new record, for example. But once it has been created and progresses towards completion, your workflow might require many more fields.
On the Configure custom layouts page, first select the record type whose layout you would like to edit or create. Then:
Click Add custom layout to open the custom layout builder and create a new custom layout.
Click on an existing layout to open the custom layout builder and edit the layout.
In either case, use the Layouts dropdown to select whether you would like to modify the Record create layout or the Record view layout, then:
Drag fields to add, rearrange, or remove them for each layout type — you can even create custom fields in the Record view layout!
Click and drag tabs to the order that best fits your needs.
In the Record create layout, you can mark individual fields as Required. Users will not be able to create the record using your layout until they enter information into all the Required fields.
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In the Record view layout, you can mark individual fields as Read-only. You can also toggle between Detail and Drawer views. Read-only fields prevent a user from editing them from the detail or drawer views of a record.
Read-only views can still be edited through extensions or the Aha! API.
If you are editing an existing layout, click the Impacts link to see any teams using your layout.
Click Save layout to save your changes.
Apply your custom layout to your team
Now that you have your layout defined, it is time to determine which teams it will apply to. To do this, navigate to Settings ⚙️→ Teams → Configure.
Scroll to the Custom layouts section, and then select the layout you want to apply to that team for each record type:
Select None to revert back to the standard layout.
Select a Custom layout to apply a particular layout. If you have the appropriate user permissions, you can also Edit the layout here.
Group records by custom fields on workflow boards
By default, workflow boards group records by status — so you can see how your work is progressing. You can choose to add horizontal swimlanes to workflow boards for another level of insight. Swimlanes include standard fields such as Assignee, Epic, or Feature, but you can also group work by the following custom fields:
Predefined choice lists
Editable choice lists
These custom fields have discrete choices, which guarantee that a record will only appear in one swimlane on a workflow board. You could have a custom field focused on priority, class of service, or maybe even by product.
To do this, navigate to Work → My board or Work → Team board. Any user in your Aha! Develop account with at least contributor user permissions can add and manage work on the workflow boards.
Once there, select your custom field from the Group by dropdown. The selection you make here will only apply to your view of the workflow board — so you will not change the board for any other user in your account.
After you have grouped records by a custom field, you can change the custom field value on a record by dragging it to a different swimlane. For example, if you have a predefined choice list custom field to indicate a record's urgency, you could drag a feature from Major to Critical to change that feature's urgency.
Search for custom field values
You can use Aha! search to search for custom field values for most types of custom fields. The following custom field types are searchable:
Text
Note
Number
URL/Email
Predefined choice list
Editable choice list
Predefined tags
Tags
Import data to custom fields
After you create a custom field, you can populate it using CSV imports. Each custom field requires its own column. If you are using a custom field with a predefined list, make sure the data you are importing matches the options in the list.