# Linking two contacts for association

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/linking-two-contacts-for-association/1921>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [May 4, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/linking-two-contacts-for-association/1921 "2017-05-04T20:51:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaious](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/kaious/32/94821_2.png) [@kaious](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kaious)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/linking-two-contacts-for-association/1921/44 "2021-03-25T20:58:19Z")

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I’d love to see something like this implemented - equivalent to a lookup field in Salesforce (and many other tools) - so you could create a custom reference to another object, whether it be a contact to another contact, or account to another account, or two different object types.

One use case we have at the moment: we work with partners, we want to keep track of which partners work with which prospect or customer accounts - so would be great if we had a “Partner” field on a company object that could then link to other companies (can obviously realte companies to eachother via parent and child relationships, but this would allow us to capture other relationships)

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