Developer's FAQ on custom fields

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To know more about Custom fields, check this article.

Pipedrive lets you create custom fields through

• Product and
• API

Creation, Manipulation, Data Types

You can find comprehensive information from our developer docs on the creation & manipulation of custom fields with code samples.

Search based on custom fields

With the itemSearch API, you can perform search on custom fields of certain item types.

Retrieving the actual name of custom fields in the API

Although there is no direct API that can do that, you can consider some of the approaches mentioned in this related wiki to do the transformation.

Combining data of related entities which happen to separate endpoints

Usually /GET API endpoints allow you to obtain the necessary data pertaining to an entity(Deal/Lead/Contact/Person/etc). Sometimes, there might be a need to combine data from different endpoints (and thereby different entities). In such situations, the following can be done: Check if the API endpoint response has related_objects property or support for associations Leverage the search_for_related_items via the item search endpoint Combining the data in runtime or via a custom API API manageme…