Adding Custom Fields

Article Number:020220
Intended audience: Kintone Users & System Administrators

The following describes how to add custom fields to user information.

Steps

  1. Click the gear-shaped menu button in the header.

  2. Click Users & System Administration.

  3. Click Departments & Users.

  4. Click Profile Settings.
    Screenshot: "Profile Settings" is highlighted

  5. In "Custom Fields", click New. Screenshot: "New" is highlighted

  6. Enter the values for "Field Name" and "Field Code".
    Items to Be Configured Screenshot: The fields to add custom fields are displayed

  7. Click Save.

Description of Items to Be Configured

Field Name

This is displayed in user information and in the profile. You can enter up to 100 characters.

Field Code

A string to identify the field. Only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_) are acceptable. You can enter up to 100 characters.

You cannot set a field code that is identical to another custom field or the field code that has been created by the system.
Field Codes Used in the System

Field Type

This specifies the type of the field. You cannot change the field type afterward.

Text
Select to enter the field value in text format. You can enter up to 100 characters.
User selection
This is used for the process management of Kintone. For details, refer to the following page:
Example 1: Assigning Your Supervisor as an Assignee

Visibility

If you clear the "Make this field public" checkbox for a custom field, the custom field is not displayed on the "Profile" screen.

  • Users can check the values of such custom fields on their "Account Settings" screen.
  • Kintone Users & System Administrators can check the custom field values for all users on the "Change User Information" screen.

Edit Permission

When you allow users to edit the values of custom fields, users can change them in their own profile.

Field Codes Used in the System

As the strings shown below are used by kintone.com, they cannot be specified for field codes for custom fields.

  • display_name
  • display_name_language
  • nickname
  • foreign_key
  • locale
  • base
  • usergroups
  • primary_group
  • attendee
  • sort_key
  • email_address
  • description
  • post
  • telephone_number
  • url
  • image