# Custom Field with multiple answers

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-field-with-multiple-answers/94277>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** enterprise\
**Created:** [November 17, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-field-with-multiple-answers/94277 "2023-11-17T14:06:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![DOakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@DOakes](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DOakes)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-field-with-multiple-answers/94277/1 "2023-11-17T14:06:32Z")

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I want to add a custom property to our Company records to hold the ERP account number. But some companies can have more than 1 account number and I want us to be able to input these and store in a single field on the Company record, not to have fields like AccountNo#1, AccountNo#2 etc…  
I guess the data type I have in mind is similar to how the Domain Name field works. You can add a number of these into the one field and be able to search/filter against them etc…  
Is it possible ? It’s not multi line text, it’s not picking from a list, it’s like allowing the input to be an array of strings …  
Anyone come across and fixed this already ?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![kvlschaefer](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/kvlschaefer/32/71076_2.png) [@kvlschaefer](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kvlschaefer)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-field-with-multiple-answers/94277/2 "2023-11-20T08:47:41Z")

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Hi @DOakes,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community!

This is an interesting use case 🙂 Thanks for sharing it with us.

I wanted to share this [knowledge base article](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/manage-your-properties) on creating custom properties in HubSpot. You can add a [search feature](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/manage-your-properties#:~:text=Select%20the%20Show,searchable%20by%20default.) to up to 3 custom properties in your account:  
“Select the Show in search checkbox (Enterprise only) to make values in the property [searchable across objects in the global search bar](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/search-within-your-hubspot-account?_ga=2.12710385.739114677.1651766840-1197051296.1651766840). You can create up to three searchable properties per object.”

Users with [Account access](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/settings/hubspot-user-permissions-guide?_ga=2.12710385.739114677.1651766840-1197051296.1651766840#admin)permissions can search by [custom single-line text, multi-line text, and number properties with _ **Shown in search** _ selected](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/manage-your-properties).

Our global search bar uses machine learning across multiple parameters to find matches on your record. You can read more about our search bar and its capabilities in this [knowledge base article](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/search-within-your-hubspot-account?).

I also wanted to invite our subject matter experts to this conversation to see if they have advice:  
Hi @johnelmer, [@Mike\_Eastwood](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/9259), @mangelet - Do you have any suggestions for @DOakes’s custom property use case? Thank you!

Best,

Kristen