Adding custom fields

Article number:020220
Intended audience: cybozu.com administrators

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

Steps

  1. Access cybozu.com administration.
    Accessing cybozu.com administration

  2. Click Departments & users.

  3. Click Profile settings.
    Screenshot: "Profile settings" is highlighted

  4. In Custom fields, click New.Screenshot: "New" is highlighted

  5. Enter the values for Field name and Field code.
    Items to be configured Screenshot: The fields to add custom fields are displayed

  6. 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.

  • Even if the [Make this field public] checkbox for a custom field is cleared, the login user can check the values of such custom fields on their Account settings screen.
  • cybozu.com 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 cybozu.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