Custom Field

It will bring you to the Custom Fields page to see the list of custom fields you made till now.

Click the “Add User Field” button if you want to add a Custom Field. In the image below, you can fill the name and type as per your need, and don’t forget to fill in the details about the custom field on the description field. Even though the “description” is optional, this information will help you when you have multiple custom fields in the future.

You can also create Bot Fields here by clicking the “Add Bot Field” button.

In the image below, you can fill the name and type as per your need, and don’t forget to fill in the details about the custom field on the description field. Even though the “description” is optional, this information will help you when you have multiple custom fields in the future.

Now will see how we can use this custom field on the chat flow to store the user information on the flow automatically.

Using Custom Field on the Chat Flow

If you already created the custom field to save the user input (information), it’s fine. Or you also can create custom field while building chat flow also.

Select the flow where you want to use this custom field feature.

On the flow, utilize “Get User Data” to gather input from your subscribers (similar to the image below)

Then click on the “Click to Edit” button to configure the custom field wizard.

Now, choose the custom field if you had created it already or you can create a new custom field here in the wizard itself.

When any subscriber on this flow provides the input on this user input, it will get stored on the custom field named “preferred color – laptop bags”.

This is how it will reflect on your subscribers.

This is how the chat flow is constructed,

And this user input will be stored on the respective custom field as we said before. You can see those custom field information on the individual audience details.

You can see the Green color which the user gives was stored on the respective custom field.

Hope this article helps you to understand more about custom field feature in Chumchat platform.

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