# New Custom Fields and Chart of Account **URL:** \ **Category:** ideas\ **Created:** [August 18, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/new-custom-fields-and-chart-of-account/42615 "2022-08-18T06:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://forum.manager.io/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/new-custom-fields-and-chart-of-account/42615/7 "2022-08-21T01:57:45Z")
If we are going to have custom fields on COA instead of alternate reporting categories for COA; then it would really help if the custom field could be configured to set multiple parts / values. To explain, when a user is assigning a COA account to an alternative reporting category that involves setting the category but also the categories position within the alternative COA structure. For example from [Custom fields for chart of accounts - #5 by Patch](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-for-chart-of-accounts/28611/5) if a user sets an account as “Rent expenses” then that implies that COA account is also part of the “Expense – ordinary” group. That second assign should be set when the custom field drop down list is defined. A way of support that would be to have a Multi component drop down list. When the custom field drop down list is defined; the index value and other field values are defined (ie a table is filled out). Then when a user selects the index component, Manager sets the other components as well based on how the other parts of the drop down list are set up. Custom reports could then be written to search for or group by any component of Multi-component drop down list. I suspect such a facility would find wider application in Manager. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.manager.io/t/new-custom-fields-and-chart-of-account/42615)._