Custom Fields enable end users to sort, filter, and search your employee directory. Here are some reasons you would use a custom field as opposed to mapping from Deltek or Azure Active Directory:
- To enable end users or intranet admins to populate the fields themselves regardless of their permissions in Deltek or Azure AD (eg "I'm a Resource for" or "Personal Bio").
- To enable intranet admins to create fields themselves. Sometimes our Synthesis Champions don't have permissions in either Deltek or AD to create and modify fields and have to go through different system admin to get fields created.
- If the field only has value in Synthesis and would never be used in Deltek or AD. Why create extra clutter in Deltek or AD if it will only be used in Synthesis?
If you need your data to have a Grid data type, it would need to be a Deltek field. Synthesis does not have a Grid field type for Custom Fields. With the exception of Grids, the behavior of Mapped Fields and Custom Fields identical in Synthesis.