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Lookup Data Type

Organizations deal with a large number of entities such as users, customers, items and projects. There’ll be cases when you might want to compare and track any two entities.

Let’s say you want to measure the efficiency of users in your organization by choosing to track the number of customers each user adds. To do this, you would need to link the users and customers module. This linking is made possible by a datatype called the Lookup in Zoho Invoice.

To understand this better, let’s look at a scenario where the Lookup datatype can come into play.

Scenario: Patricia wants to keep track of all the sales transactions a user creates on a regular basis. She creates a custom field in the sales module with Lookup data type and selects the module as Users. After this, whenever she creates a transaction for that module, she can assign it to a specific user. By the end of the week when Patricia wants to check the number of transactions created by different users, she goes to the Users and Roles module and tracks them under the users’ Related List.

You can add custom fields with the Lookup data type for different modules in their Preferences section (Settings > Preferences > Field Customization).

Let us see how we can implement the above scenario and create a custom fileld with lookup data type in a module.

Lookup Custom Field
Fields Description
Label Name The field name which will appear in the module.
Data Type The data type should be Lookup.
Help Field A brief description on what the custom field is used for.
Module The module in which you want to track the records (in this case, Users).
Related List Name The name of the list which will appear in the looked-up modules (In Scenario 1, the related list will appear in the Users and Roles module).

The Related List with the lookup details will be available in the corresponding modules such as Items, Projects, Customers, and Users (in this case, the Users). To access the related list:

All the related entries can be accessed from this page.

Related List

Insight: In the above scenario, the lookup field is created for a Sales module and assigned to the module Users. The Related List will be tracked and available in the Users and Roles module.

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