Hello, I’m trying to figure out a way to find contacts with a custom property. I’m trying to implement one way sync from our internal system to hubspot. I have a property called ‘internal-account-id’. It appears search only works with name and email. Am I missing something? Ideas / suggestions welcome. Thanks, Eric

Nope, not yet. Though I do have it on good authority this IS in the works and is currently undergoing beta testing. Not only custom fields but ability to search on ANY field. Not sure when it is going to be released but I think its just a few weeks away. Hang in there.

I’m still baffled that this post is still active and nothing has been done to implement this feature. This clearly has been implemented on the api.hubspot.com entrypoint and not the api.hubapi.com entry point. I understand that these are two different services but I request ed this feature back in 2017. The hubspot UI allows us to apply filters on the contacts view. Why can’t we have the same access? We have almost 200,000 contacts in our account and the current api limits us to 100 (although 250 seems to work). Console Network Request: [Screen Shot 2019-10-29 at 10.03.01 PM.png]

Is there any update on this. Seems like this has been a wanted feature for a long time now. It would be great to be able to filter contacts/companies by a custom field or selected field option. I remember BaseCamp/Highrise had this in their CRM and it was really nice.

Hi @111project, Yes we are releasing a new CRM Search endpoint into “Developer preview” this week that will allow you to search across all CRM objects (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Products and Tickets) using values stored in default and/or custom properties. We will update this thread as soon as it’s live. Regards, Jack

Hi Jack, Just cheking if this new search functionality has been released yet?

So Jack let me check I understand, is this to say that unless you connect via the API a regular professional user cannot search for a custom property entry in order to find a certain contact in the current version of hubspot. In 2020? So if I want to find a specific custom Property and see how many people have that same entry I have to export to excel and get them to do what Hubspot should be able to do in the first place? I’m so shocked I feel like I’m missing something it’s so bizarre…

plmcraig, I agree with 100%. To not have a user be able to do a simple search on a custom, or for that matter, any property in ridiculous. How am I to see how many of my contacts are interested in my widget A, B or C that I created a custom property for?

2 weeks and nothing from HubSpot. Pretty useless

I left and went to Zoho. While Zoho is not as intuitive , once you get the hang of it , it’s epic , its very customisable , you get over 50 APPS features etc for much less and the price comparison is second to none. Try it. You may switch too.

Equally as crazy is you can’t even search for people using Hubspot’s OWN FIELDS. We’re a service based company where customers have multiple sites we must visit. When they call in, wouldn’t it be nice to lookup their site by the PHYSICAL ADDRESS? Guess what, you can’t… I am honestly blown away at this lack of functionality in an otherwise incredibly powerful CRM. What gives Hubspot?

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This has been rolled out into developer preview today. You can acess it here: Accounts Dashboard | HubSpot. You can view the official update here: CRM API v3 Developer Preview is Now Available

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