# Custom "Create Date" Property vs Native "Created date" when migrating data

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-create-date-property-vs-native-created-date-when-migrating-data/92382>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** crm\
**Created:** [October 23, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-create-date-property-vs-native-created-date-when-migrating-data/92382 "2023-10-23T13:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![EFlores68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EFlores68](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EFlores68)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-create-date-property-vs-native-created-date-when-migrating-data/92382/1 "2023-10-23T13:23:30Z")

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Hi all, has anybody done this before?

Have you created a custom property and transferred the data to this new property?

Is the reporting accurate if you look at the new property’s data?

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**Author:** ![TomM2](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tomm2/32/70887_2.png) [@TomM2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TomM2)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-create-date-property-vs-native-created-date-when-migrating-data/92382/2 "2023-10-23T15:23:48Z")

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Hey @EFlores68 you could easily create a property to store a date. It will not however behave the same way as the default create date, some reports specifically relying on create date (such as the forms dashboard) won’t use this custom create date. I haven’t had any use case for this in the past though, out of curiosity what is your use case?

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**Author:** ![EFlores68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EFlores68](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EFlores68)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-create-date-property-vs-native-created-date-when-migrating-data/92382/3 "2023-10-23T16:40:34Z")

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Thanks Tom

That’s the particular use case and the issues I’m facing. I have migrated all the data to a custom field.

A lot of the Marketing reports (most of the ones in the library) show strange data. Also, if I use data ranges (by quarter, month, year) the data is distorted