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Custom Fields for Any Object

Swifty Team Jan 16, 2025 2 min read

Standard software gives you standard fields. Your business isn't standard.

You need that extra field on the customer record — the one that tracks the industry segment your sales team cares about. Or the internal rating field that helps your support team prioritize. Or the supplier-specific code that connects your records to an external system.

These aren't niche requirements. They're the specific things that make your business yours.

Add a Field in Seconds

Adding a custom field to any object in Swifty takes about thirty seconds. Pick the object type, click "Add Field," choose a type, give it a label. Done.

The field immediately appears in forms, list views (as an optional column), and detail pages. No restart required. No developer involved.

Field Types That Cover Every Need

Swifty supports the full range of field types you'll actually encounter in business data:

  • Text — short labels, names, codes
  • Long text — descriptions, notes, internal comments
  • Number — integers and decimals, with optional precision
  • Date — calendar picker, with time if needed
  • Boolean — a simple yes/no toggle
  • Select — dropdown with your own list of options
  • Relation — link to another object type in your app
  • File — attach documents, images, or any other file

Combine them freely. A single object type might have twenty fields of different types, all added incrementally as your business needs evolved.

Organize With Sections

Fields can be grouped into sections on the detail page — a basic section for the essentials, a financial section for numbers, an internal section visible only to certain roles. Sections make even complex records easy to navigate.

The Right Fields Change Everything

There's a qualitative shift that happens when your records have the right fields. Teams stop using notes as catch-all storage for structured information. Reports become possible because the data is actually structured. New team members can understand records without being briefed by a colleague.

Custom fields sound like a tactical feature. The impact is strategic.

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