[Closed] Ask Me Anything: Custom Objects

Hi @kelseyingram392 ! This isn’t currently possible, but it is something we’re considering. Follow this idea thread for updates: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Use-a-form-to-populate-custom-object-data/idi-p/366405

That said, workflows can create custom object records, and you can copy property values, too, so that would be a good workaround. For example, let’s say you have a pet kennel, and you have a custom object called Pets. You want people to be able to fill out a form to submit information about their pets. If you Pets object has properties for Name, Age, and Breed, you could create contact properties for Pet Name, Pet Age, and Pet Breed and put those into a form. You could then create a contact-bsed workflow that’s triggered by that form submission. It would create a Pet record, copy Contact:Pet Name to Pet:Name, Contact:Pet Age to Pet:Age, and Contact:Pet Breed to Pet:Breed. It would also associate that pet to the contact who submitted the form.

In this setup, the contact properties would work as temporary holders of the pet information. If I’m your customer, and I have five pets, I would submit the form five time. Each time, the contact properties would get overwritten, but a new pet record would get created and associated to me. I think this would get you where you want to be--you’d just have to make sure everyone on your team knows to ignore the pet-related contact properties and instead look at the associated pet records for information.

Does that make sense?