# Association Reporting Across Objects - Custom Data Set?

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687>\
**Category:** Dashboards & Reporting\
**Tags:** reports, enterprise\
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687 "2025-01-24T00:34:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![CWit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@CWit](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CWit)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687/1 "2025-01-24T00:34:20Z")

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Hello,

We use Associations on three of our primary objects, Companies, Contacts, and Deals and we would like to be able to use them as report filters across different objects. What is the best way to do this?  
I found the way to do it when looking at one object but not across many, and you have to pre-select the association on the dataset vs it being a filter on the report.  
We are also able to create custom data sets, s there a way to create a custom data set that pulls in the association labels and makes them available in reports?

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**Author:** ![aviafriat26](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/aviafriat26/32/82610_2.png) [@aviafriat26](https://community.hubspot.com/u/aviafriat26)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687/2 "2025-01-24T14:16:42Z")

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@CWit You’ll need to build a custom dataset to make association labels available in reports. When setting it up, include the labels as fields so you can use them as filters later. Unfortunately, HubSpot doesn’t let you add association labels directly as filters in reports—you have to pre-select them in the dataset. It’s not perfect, but it works.

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**Author:** ![CWit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@CWit](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CWit)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687/3 "2025-01-24T17:01:16Z")

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Thank you! Any guidance or recommended training on building a custom data  
set, this will be my first one.

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**Author:** ![Berangere](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/berangere/32/220784_2.png) [@Berangere](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Berangere)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/association-reporting-across-objects-custom-data-set/124687/4 "2025-02-20T12:15:13Z")

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Hi @CWit, I hope that you are doing well!  
I’d like to share these resources that will guide you:  
- The solution from @RStaley on this post “[Filtering reports using association labels](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/CRM/Filtering-reports-using-association-labels/m-p/521921)”  
- The solution from @Jnix284 on this post “[CRM Report: How to show association labels in reports](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/CRM/CRM-Report-How-to-show-association-labels-in-reports/m-p/955397)”  
Let me know if that helped?  
Have a lovely day!  
Best,  
Bérangère