# Custom Object Automatic Association with other Native Records

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-automatic-association-with-other-native-records/52863>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-automatic-association-with-other-native-records/52863 "2022-03-10T04:17:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![DTadd1](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/dtadd1/32/79644_2.png) [@DTadd1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DTadd1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-automatic-association-with-other-native-records/52863/1 "2022-03-10T04:17:13Z")

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My sales team regularly creates custom object records and associates them with deals, companies, and contacts. It would save a lot of time for them if from the custom object record creation form, deals and companies were automatically associated with the new record.

This seems possible, becuase already a deal is associated by default when you start the custom object record creation process from a deal record right hand side bar. The Company and Contact fields should populate by default with whatever records are already associated with the deal.

Example:

This ‘Job Opening’ creation form automatically associated a deal because I added a new Job Opening from that Deal record. The deal has associated Companies and Contacts, and they should also be included in these field by default.

 ![DTadd1_0-1646885731699.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/2X/3/3347fea8250f545976673f712b6cde204baca180.png)

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**Author:** ![JonathanS](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jonathans/32/17366_2.png) [@JonathanS](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JonathanS)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-automatic-association-with-other-native-records/52863/2 "2022-04-08T17:23:19Z")

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Hey @DTadd1!

Are you trying ot automate the process of associating the custom object to Contacts and Companies?

If the standard and have a common property (Such as a Unique ID or Company Name) you can use [Associ8](https://ecosystem.hubspot.com/marketplace/apps/productivity/workflow-automation/associations-app-272901) to automatically associate the objects.

Here is an example of what a workflow might look like:

 ![contact-to-partner.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/6/261b5d9c00c18a60fcc4bfcda0611813d805571c.png)

If you want to hop on a call I would love to explore your use case and help you build a work flow to achieve this! Feel free to shoot me a message so we can setup a meeting.

Thanks,

-Jonathan