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Created by Jonathon Leeke
Created on Sep 14, 2015

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Edit & change custom field type

I'd like to change a custom field from Editable Choice List to Tags.  This would let users choose multiple values instead of a single value.  But to do this, I have to delete the field and create another one, which destroys the data I've already entered.  Please allow me to change between custom field types where data can be preserved.  Going from a Note field to a Text field would also be non-destructive, so why not allow it?  I can see this being tricky with all the different combinations, but maybe some are easy to enable?

Release time frame 3 months
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 8, 2021

    You can now change the data type and merge custom fields in your Aha! account.

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  • CJ Jacobs
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    |     Mar 17, 2020

    This is a big one for my team as well - agree with all of the comments below. Not having the ability to switch at the very least between different types of text fields has created a lot of technical debt, especially in our JIRA integration, when not setting up custom fields with the "right" type of text field during initial Aha! config/setup. Certain text types do not integrate well with JIRA, and we only discovered this after the fact, causing us to recreate custom fields.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 22, 2019

    I want to change the "pricing" field type from text to note so that I can better communicate tiered pricing models.

  • Lexy Kassan
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    |     Sep 19, 2019

    Similarly, I would like to be able to change from Text field to Note without losing content.

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 5, 2019

    Agreed that change from Single Select to Multi-select should be implemented.

  • Alex G
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    |     Jul 25, 2019

    At least enable changing a field from single select to multi-select without needing to start over

  • Julie Wilson
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    |     Jan 28, 2019

    I have run into this several times. As we learn how best to implement this tool, it is painful to make changes that should be relatively easy to do.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 11, 2018

    When is the capability to change the data type of a field available?

  • Oleg Kupershmidt
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    |     May 16, 2018

     I want to change field type from editable choice list to predefined choice list. If I didn't care about data I would just add new and delete the current one but in my case I have a lot of records that would lose this data ( I want to preserve it).

  • Sovit Biswas
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    |     Jan 20, 2017

    I am trying to change the custom field type from Tags field to Predefined Tags field.

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Ability to change Custom Field type when already created

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Julie Edwards over 5 years ago in Account settings 0 Shipped
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Edit Existing Field to a Different Type

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Guest over 4 years ago in Account settings 0 Shipped