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Custom Field should be able to apply to more than one property

Status: Requested 2 Votes
Sloanish
Jan 24, 2024 4:26 PM
Joined Jun, 2018 132 posts

I want to set one custom field that will apply to several properties. This isn't currently an option in your system, This should not be hard to do as you already have the code to pick out specific properties.

Here are use cases, for example:

Trash Collection

Neighborhood amenities

Disclaimers

General Guest Instructions

Specific Owner Rules applied to an owner's properties

As it is you need to add a field into each property which completely defeats the purpose.

From your tech

"As the type of field code needed for what you're hoping to accomplish is a property type field code, our system currently has no way to automatically batch update the custom fields for any properties of your choosing to match the custom field of the 1st property you configure that custom field on. 
Thusly, manually configuring the custom field per property is necessary"

Robert P
Jan 25, 2024 11:43 AM
Joined Aug, 2023 46 posts

Perhaps the issue is that one should have the feature of being able to assign properties to groups, and custom fields can be set for groups, which when a new one is entered for a group, automatically overrides all of the custom field entries for each property in that group. In this way, custom fields can be assigned in bulk, and properties can be assigned to as many different groups as necessary, providing all of the flexibility one might need to do what you are requesting.

Alece
Jan 25, 2024 3:02 PM
Joined Jan, 2020 184 posts

YES!! Love that recommendation, Robert!