# Custom Field not working

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-field-not-working/89983 "2018-06-15T16:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sanjay1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sanjay1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sanjay1)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-field-not-working/89983/17 "2018-07-25T10:20:01Z")

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@vinothkannans Thanks for suggestion, and it’s working.

One more thing I would like to ask you is, I am trying to set an object as in a JSON object into the custom field, However, when I se it, is setting it as a string with character escapes, is there a way to handle this.

Thanks

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