What are user fields?
User fields allow you to capture and store additional information about the people in your organization. You can use them to record attributes like job titles, departments, locations, or employment type, which gives you a richer and more accurate picture of your team. Beyond storing information, user fields power other parts of the platform. They can be used to drive rule-based group and site memberships and support HR system integrations.
Every SafetyCulture organization includes a set of pre-defined system fields. You can also create custom fields to capture user details specific to your organization's needs.
User fields
There are two types of user fields: system fields and custom fields. Both appear together in your organization's user field list and can be displayed on user profiles.
System fields
System fields are pre-defined fields available in every SafetyCulture organization. These cover standard workforce attributes and are ready to use. You cannot create, rename, archive, or delete them. However, you can add or edit options to system fields that have single select and multi select data types.
Field name | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
External ID | Text | A unique identifier for the user sourced from an external HR system. Used for user matching during HR integration imports. |
Employee ID | Text | The organization's internal employee number. |
Start date | Date | The date the employee started with the organization. |
Employee type | Single select | The nature of the employment arrangement. For example, Full-time, Part-time, or Contractor. |
Job title | Text | The user's role or position title within the organization. |
Locations | Multi select | The work locations where the user is based. |
Teams | Multi select | The teams the user belongs to in the organization. |
Cost center | Multi select | The cost centers the user is assigned to for financial reporting purposes. |
Department | Multi select | The departments the user belongs to. |
Business unit | Multi select | The business units or divisions the user is part of. |
External groups | Multi select | Groups assigned to the user from an external HR system, used for access and membership management. |
Entities | Multi select | The legal entity or entities the user is associated with. |
Custom fields
Custom fields are fields you create to capture information specific to your organization. You can configure the name, description, data type, and display settings for each field, and update them at any time.
A few things to note about custom fields:
Custom fields cannot share a name with a system field.
You can create up to 2,000 custom fields in an organization.
Editing the data type of an existing custom field is currently unsupported.
If your organization has custom fields with the same name as system fields, you may see an error when managing your organization's user list. Migrate your custom fields to resolve assignment rules, data type incompatibilities, and bulk upload errors.
Data type options
Create a custom user field
Click your organization name on the lower-left corner of the page and select Users .
Clickon the upper-right corner of the page and select
Manage user fields .Click Add field .
In the side panel, enter a name and description for the field, then select a data type.
Turn the following field settings on as needed:
Allow users to update : The option to allow users to edit their details for the field. Anyone with "Platform management: Users" permissionwill be able to update a user's details.
Display on user profiles : The option to show or hide a field from a user's profile.
Click Create .
Edit a custom user field
Click your organization name on the lower-left corner of the page and select Users .
Clickon the upper-right corner of the page and select
Manage user fields .Clickon the user field's right-hand side, then select
Edit .
In the side panel, update the name or description as needed.
For Single select and Multi select data types, you can manage the options.
To add an option, click Add option and enter a value.
To delete an option, click
Delete next to the option you want to remove.
In the "Field settings" section, turn the settings on or off:
Allow users to update : Controls whether users can edit their own value for this field.
Display on user profiles : Controls whether this field is visible on user profiles.
Click Save .
Deleting options from single and multi select user fields converts any groups with membership rules into normal groups, even if the deleted options aren't used in those membership rules.
Reorder user fields
Click your organization name on the lower-left corner of the page and select Users .
Clickon the upper-right corner of the page and select
Manage user fields .Clickto drag and drop the field to the order you prefer it to appear on the user profile. Changes are saved automatically.
Show or hide fields on the user profile
Click your organization name on the lower-left corner of the page and select Users .
Clickon the upper-right corner of the page and select
Manage user fields .Clickon the user field's right-hand side, then select
Edit .In the side panel, go to the Field settings section, and turn Display on user profiles setting on or off as needed.
Click Save .
